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As Concertinas are becoming more popular, here's where enthusiasts can discuss their favourite: Instruments; Players; Tunes; Playing Styles & post links to their favourite Concertina videos & forthcoming events & classes.
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If you play Irish Music on an Anglo Concertina & your name is not already on this list, please post your details with a link to your website or YouTube, on the Comments Wall below & I'll be happy to add your name to our list here.
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Dick
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OK Werner. Will do. But right now I am trying to educate my left hand to find the buttons as well as my right hand.
Thanks Bill. Let the fiddlers and fluters change their ways. Not I.
Well, I am not an expert on it since my concertinas have always had 30 buttons, but I think you have a couple of options. 1. Depending on the music and the rhythm, you might be able to repeat the preceding or following note. 2. If you can figure out what chords would go with the tune, you could substitute another note in the chord. 3. if you are playing by yourself, transpose the key of the tune to one that you can play on a C/G. The latter was probably how it was done in the days when musicians played alone; we only really started worrying about the key when we had to play with fiddle and flute players.
I did my time on an (Irish) melodeon 70 years ago. S0 my right hand knows what it is doing but my left hasn't got a clue. Finding that cross-row is essential even for simple tune like The Castle of Dromore. And that's good for the future. It's C/G by the way. What to do about the C#?
I think there might be some debate between what exactly constitutes an Anglo. In general, the smaller instruments with 6 (or more) sides, and leather bellows have been called Anglos amongst most of the online concertina community (At least it was when I hung out on C-net). The German instruments tended to be square and larger. This could also be a question of local convention like the fact that what constitutes a melodeon differs from Ireland (Only 10 button diatonic accordions), England (Any diatonic accordion that is not tuned with half-step tuning) and America where it is a different instrument all together.
Now as for playing it, well the first question is, do you know what keys it is tuned to? C/G is most common, but G/D are not uncommon. If it is the latter, you will (as you no doubt know from your harmonica experience) probably be able to play 90-95% of the tunes that show up at sessions. If it is C/G you might still do okay, you just need to figure out how to replace the missing C#s. Of course, if you just play on your own, then it matters not a whit what the keys are. Still these little boxes are addictive, so be careful, because they are a lot more expensive than harmonicas :).
Thanks, Werner. And for the info which is apparently not widely known.
OK. So I found a concertina looking lost on the shelf of a New Zealand op-shop and discovered I could almost play it from a harmonica background. Bought it - a 20-key Anglo. And it is coming along very well for a cheap instrument and (very) old player. All great fun and looking forward to a lasting relationship!
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John O'Neill
Thanks Maki!
Thanks Heather, for the additional learning materials.
And good luck with the sale.
Hi Maki
Great to hear from you, and I'm delighted to hear that you're using The Concertina Diaries and finding it useful. Did you know that I had posted up three additional tunes (as a set) in the same concertina notation as in The Diaries"? You'll find them as free downloads at http://www.irishtunebook.com/more-tunes.php - and I'm going to put a further three jigs up (Seamus Connolly's/Rosemary Lane/Tobin's) - all in D and I think very mice tunes, but with their own learning points built in. Then I'm going to put up a set of Mazurkas, also with some extra learning points. So, that way, I hope that "The Concertina Diaries" approach will keep on being useful. I hope you're keeping well and enjoying playing concertina.
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