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Sounds like fun! Do you really expect to play at 125-130 bpm? I'm an experienced contra dance musician, and my feeling is that if we get that fast we're out of control. :) I like to stay in the range of 112-120 bpm. I learned to stick with those numbers 20 years ago in a band workshop with the membe...

I play two kinds of concertina (English and anglo), button accordion, and whistle. For me, the concertinas have been easiest, the button accordion hardest, and the whistle in-between. But it's hard to separate out how much is due to difficulty and how much is due to lack of practice. :) My whistle-p...

You'll find a couple of other versions in JC's ABC tune finder, http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html if you spell it "Humours." Another place to look is http://www.thesession.org , which has notation (standard sheet music and ABCs) for several of the tunes on Callan Bridge. ...

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You can hear it online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/

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There's also the cheap Chinese concertinas that sell for $300 on eBay, use accordion reeds and have long bellows. They look like bigugly concertinas, but are probably better called something else? I think "big, ugly, cheap concertinas" is an accurate description. I believe they're knock-o...

Well, then it's a counter-example to rule # 2: you have an accordion whose buttons travel along the bellows. Dang, caught up by one exception (or maybe two), because I was trying to make the rules cover every case. :roll: Thanks for the catch. If there's anyone out there still reading this thread b...

Caj wrote:http://www.hmtrad.com/catalog/winds/sbx/sbx-org.html

I believe Colin Dipper also once made a concertina like this.

Caj

Like HMT says, it's not a concertina -- it's an accordion masquerading as a concertina. ("Verdict: it's just another weird double reeded button accordion.")

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The recent thread on the differences between concertinas and accordions is at http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=16951 , where I wrote: ... the number of reeds per note is not the defining difference [between concertinas and accordions]. Bandoneons, which are closely associated with tango mus...

I lived in Boulder as well, yuppies, bean sprouts, no ugly people, nobody over 25, they shoot bagladies at the frontier... Well, among other things that are wrong in the above, Boulder has a new, 160-bed shelter for the homeless. How does that compare to where you choose to live now, Jim? 50 and no...

It's got a little piano keyboard on one end, and seven or eight buttons on the other end. I find I can't even stretch and un-stretch it, because the keyboard end has no wrist strap or anything. Normally, piano accordions have two shoulder straps. You put one arm through each strap. They hold the in...

In fact, some early Morse concertinas used wax to hold in the accordion reeds. To the best of my knowledge, all Morse concertinas built to date have waxed-in reeds. There's nothing inherently wrong with waxed-in reeds. The wax forms a very good airtight seal -- possibly better and longer lasting th...

It turns out it wasn't a flute, it was an electronic bagpipe practice chanter. See http://www.pressherald.com/news/local/0 ... port.shtml for details and pictures.

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The one drawback to the Enlgish is its cost. It is a couple of times more expensive than an Anglo. I don't agree with this generalization. There are always very cheap anglos for sale on eBay, often $100-$200. But they're junk. For not a lot more ($260 delivered) you can by an English concertina mad...

Aren't there also differences in the way the reeds are mounted [in accordions and concertinas], or is that only typical and not defining too? I'd say it's "typical" rather than defining. In traditional concertinas, reeds are fitted into dovetailed slots. In modern mid-price concertinas th...