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Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: **DTN** on September 28, 2012, 10:12:19 PM
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Not taken a melodeon out of the bag for 4 weeks now!.... not like me! ... longest layoff other than injury for 18 years! ..... need to re-excite the need to play a tune! :-\ :-\ :-\
DTN
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I'd say stop worrying, take your mind off it and wait for the muse to return in it's own time.
That or just buy an expensive new box that you'll feel obliged to play as much as possible to get your money's worth. ;D
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My advice,for what it's worth is to find one of Bob Cann's tunes from, for instance "West country melodeon" and go for it trying to put the nuances into the tune that he did. Totally infectious.
He had a band called The South Devon Pixies consisting of himself a mouth organist and a saw player.
Calling and playing at the same time was to my mind utter genius, including (during a very complicated piece) saying " Would you mind being quiet at the toilet end please" and no change to rhythm at all .
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Wow, that is shocking news Derek. You are still active in the virtual world however, every week I dip back into your u tube postings ,listen, practice and then try not to run away from my box muttering.." No way, how on earth does he play that fast ? "
The urge will return, I get the similiar ebbs and flow with my desire to dress in female apparel.
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Maybe you can compete with lester and challenge yourself to a tune a day?
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The urge will return, I get the similiar ebbs and flow with my desire to dress in female apparel.
warning .. severe thread drift ... that wasn't you who strolled into a session in Whitby wearing a fetching outfit of short black leather skirt, high heeled black leather boots, black tights, red satin ladies blouse and little black jacket just as we were singing " My proper name is Clarence .... but you can call me Clare" was it? ;D
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DTN the gods are trying to tell you something - this just appeared on my YouTube Recommended Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RyY7WDmkog&feature=g-vrec (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RyY7WDmkog&feature=g-vrec)
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DTN the gods are trying to tell you something - this just appeared on my YouTube Recommended Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RyY7WDmkog&feature=g-vrec (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RyY7WDmkog&feature=g-vrec)
That is probably still my most favourite clip, I started a thread a few years ago with it.
http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,2192.msg23218.html#msg23218
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OK.... I put my original status up because i simply got lazy .. couldn't be bothered to get the box out ..I hoped someone would reply and just tell me i'm stupid (often done) .. so reading the replys this morning made me realise i am being stupid!... so i got thinking ... Wife and daughter have gone out for the day! ... To visit Leicester University (De Montfort) ... and i need to make a pasta dish for when they get back! ... its over 2hours each way from me ... so (stick with me) ... Got me thinking of "Bourrée "De Montford" from the youtube playing of Marinette Bonnert & Stephan "Stoney" Steiner who are both melodeon gods to me!...So .. back to the pasta .. 2nd tune .... "Spaghetti Panic" what else!
So here is my quick attempt of both .. but more importantly i got my lovely LOFFET AD back out of the box to play them! :||:
Thanks for your support and advice.
http://soundcloud.com/dtn-1/bourr-e-de-montford-spaghetti (http://soundcloud.com/dtn-1/bourr-e-de-montford-spaghetti)
Cheers Derek
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Del,
What do you mean, get a box out? I've never got into your place without tripping over a couple!
You could always come and play with HEMM... We have an invite to join Kennet at the 20th birthday party for the Hogsback Brewery coming up soon! I can give you a lift so you can follow your natural tendencies - at a brewery that doesn't even require a suspender belt. We had a gig at Bramshill College last night - free food and drink and an opportunity to bad-mouth senior coppers to their faces!
Give us a bell sometime,
Rob2
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The urge will return, I get the similar ebbs and flow with my desire to dress in female apparel.
Gary, does this mean that instead of getting your box out, you are coming out of it?
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There was a suggestion a while back on Facebook, that you and I should get a trio together with Simon Ritchie. That should give you something to think about. ;)
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There was a suggestion a while back on Facebook, that you and I should get a trio together with Simon Ritchie. That should give you something to think about. ;)
Now that I would like to hear. 8)
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There was a suggestion a while back on Facebook, that you and I should get a trio together with Simon Ritchie. That should give you something to think about. ;)
Now that I would like to hear. 8)
That sounds like an interesting project! ... I'm in! ;D
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That Loffet A/D sounds fantastic! I just got my old Castagnari Rik A/D/G back after several years absence and am really enjoying having the A row and chords. BTW, this is the same box you played when you were visiting Shepherdstown, WV with Hook Eagle a dozen or so years ago. Welcome back!
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There was a suggestion a while back on Facebook, that you and I should get a trio together with Simon Ritchie. That should give you something to think about. ;)
Now that I would like to hear. 8)
That sounds like an interesting project! ... I'm in! ;D
I'd like to hear the result. ;)
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OK.... I put my original status up because i simply got lazy .. couldn't be bothered to get the box out ..I hoped someone would reply and just tell me i'm stupid (often done) .. so reading the replys this morning made me realise i am being stupid!... so i got thinking ... Wife and daughter have gone out for the day! ... To visit Leicester University (De Montfort) ... and i need to make a pasta dish for when they get back! ... its over 2hours each way from me ... so (stick with me) ... Got me thinking of "Bourrée "De Montford" from the youtube playing of Marinette Bonnert & Stephan "Stoney" Steiner who are both melodeon gods to me!...So .. back to the pasta .. 2nd tune .... "Spaghetti Panic" what else!
So here is my quick attempt of both .. but more importantly i got my lovely LOFFET AD back out of the box to play them! :||:
Thanks for your support and advice.
http://soundcloud.com/dtn-1/bourr-e-de-montford-spaghetti (http://soundcloud.com/dtn-1/bourr-e-de-montford-spaghetti)
Cheers Derek
Wow. Love the Spaghetti Panic, been learning this recently and I like especially the way you start it in that set - it's kind of a brutal tune to just plunge straight into so the chord vamping works really well. Also the first tune is fab, if it's OK I'll learn as a matching pair meself. There you go, you're not just getting your melodeon out of the box, you're inspiring others too.
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Get your box out for the lads!
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Not wanting to get off track, but thanks to everyone who is using Soundcloud, the MP4's are super compared to cutting the audio tracks out of YouTubes.
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Not wanting to get off track, but thanks to everyone who is using Soundcloud, the MP4's are super compared to cutting the audio tracks out of YouTubes.
Agreed. I'm also just a big fan in general of soundcloud. They make it very easy to record tracks and post them.
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There was a suggestion a while back on Facebook, that you and I should get a trio together with Simon Ritchie.
You'll be needing a caller then...or a beer fairy.... :|glug
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There was a suggestion a while back on Facebook, that you and I should get a trio together with Simon Ritchie.
You'll be needing a caller then...or a beer fairy.... :|glug
Fairy Nuff ...........
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Just catching up after a busy weekend:
Glad to hear you've got playing again.
Thought you might have rinsed away all the brain cells with that free beer ;D
As if......!
Q
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FREE BEER? WHERE? WHEN? :|glug :|glug :|glug :|glug :||: :|glug :|glug :|glug :|bl
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Not taken a melodeon out of the bag for 4 weeks now!.... not like me! ... longest layoff other than injury for 18 years! ..... need to re-excite the need to play a tune! :-\ :-\ :-\
DTN
Something that always helps me to bash out a tune amidst moments of inspirational dearths--is for kids: they seem to cull or coax the tunes...when I'm feeling unplayful. It's one reason--perhaps a big reason--why I play melodeon at all!
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FREE BEER? WHERE? WHEN? :|glug :|glug :|glug :|glug :||: :|glug :|glug :|glug :|bl
Ebor, you wouldn't be from Yorkshire would you? Whose round is it anyway?
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Not my turn, I bought my round in Durham in 1978......
BTW I put my box away for nearly 10 years, then got it out again for Eborfidlers missus birthday or summat like that do - and wondered 'why on earth did I stop playing???'
As you can see from my raft of posts in Theme otm this month , there's no stopping me now!
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Someone here a few years ago posted "keep the box out of the case, near the tea kettle" or some approximation of that.
That is what I have done and it's funny, you always end up picking it up for 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, pretty much every day, even if you don't plan a real "sit down" practice session.
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I agree - 6 years ago my better half said 'why you dont play your guitar anymore'. Answer 'it's in the loft....'. Hence it came out of the loft, now lives in the living room ('the lounge'.....), and gets played most days!
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Calm down Ebor..... sorry to say the event has passed.
I like to lubricate my fellow squeezers but it was a once in a lifetime event.
.....til next time ;)
Q
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Just like my round in 1978.......
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;D indeed!
We even heard about it all the way down here......... that was how significant it was ;)
Q
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;D