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Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ronald Denis on November 10, 2015, 01:49:35 PM
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Hello,
I am a new member from Canada
I have been looking through this forum for a long time.
I play diatonic, concertina and some piano accordion.
I am interested in learning more about building a one row
and anything that is related to the melodeon.
Very knowledgeable people here.
Ronald Denis
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Hi Ronald - welcome to the mad house.
Did you get you bass reeds sorted out?
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Hi Ronald and welcome. As you already know you have joined a great group of people , knowledgable, friendly and fun. All the Melodion questions you'll ever ask, I'm sure will be answered here.
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Hi Ronald and welcome. As you already know you have joined a great group of people , knowledgable, friendly and fun. All the Melodion questions you'll ever ask, I'm sure will be answered here.
Questions like how to spell melodeon :)
Hi Roland
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Thanks for the greetings,
No Malcolm, I did not get the bass reeds sorted out.
I have been trying to get on this forum for quite some time, but I never read beyond
new membership disabled, until I figured it out.
I have a Korg 0t-120 on the way and will try to individually listen to the three bass reeds
on my Saltarelle B/C and my hohner one row Vienna to try and figure the bass reed sizes.
Ronald
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Hi Ronald and welcome. As you already know you have joined a great group of people , knowledgable, friendly and fun. All the Melodion questions you'll ever ask, I'm sure will be answered here.
Questions like how to spell melodeon :)
Hi Roland
Oh stop it! ;D
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Canada is rather a large place ?? (just got back) :|glug
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Northern Ontario
A little town (village) named Haileybury
on the Ontario side of Lake Temiskaming.
Haileybury was named after the famous college in England
as it's founder C. C. Farr was born there....the town... not the college I presume.
Love the button accordion as I am French Canadian, being from the first generation born in Ontario
in 1958. My father played the one row.
We call them Accordeon a bouttons in Quebec.
Cheers
Ronald
PS Yes Chris, Canada is a large place; just saying I am from there definitely makes it a blanket statement and a little ambiguous.
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Nice to have another Canadian on here! I live in Wakefield, Quebec, in the capital region, and have recently gotten back into Quebecois music with a newly acquired, quebec-made "accordeon a bouttons" ;) That quebecois accordion/fiddle music is fast! Nice to have you on here :)
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Greetings from the Ontario Riviera - the Niagara region. (:)
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Way!! Just got there. ;D Was lovely. Lots of lovely little towns with homes backing down onto the lake (:) We tried Syracuse too, even saw some Amish, but the lure of Canada and the St Lawrence quickly bought us back over the border. :|glug
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All the Melodion questions you'll ever ask, I'm sure will be answered here.
Questions like how to spell melodeon :)
Hi Roland
As a matter of fact "melodeon" was not uncommonly spelled "melodion" in its early years, going back to the late 1870s/early 1880s.
Only I didn't realise Nick had been around that long... ;)
And "Roland" is "Ronald"... ???
Bienvenue à la maison des fous Ronald!
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;D ;D
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To quote Asterix - "Ils sont foux, ces Anglais!"
Doubt I'll ever get to Canada again, but spent a couple of months inToronto learning to build a tandem mass spectrometer with Sciex. Had a great time and even went sailing up at Midland, played softball after work and drank far too much Becks - rotten hangovers.
One of my ex-boxes has a new life there when I sold it to Zabrina in the London area. I'm told there are a few sessions thereabouts.
Rob.
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Hello new canadian member. I like your country (have been to Montmagny festival last summer, found it gorgious !)
Regards.
PS : by the way you could spell "mélodéon" :P
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«melodeon» I think ::) (un mot qu' on n' a jamais entendu sur l' hexagon )
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«melodeon» I think ::) (un mot qu' on n' a jamais entendu sur l' hexagon )
Not often indeed ! But we sometimes say "mélodéon" for one row instruments (for Québec or cajun music, for example) :|||:
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But of course most of us play Diatonic Button Accordionjs, which sounds wonderful as Accordéon diatonique deux rangées huit basses. Perhaps we need to rename this forum as DBA.net, which would whittle down the membership.
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virtually always abbreviated to «diato» in the land of (Ahem!) accordéons
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Diato.net has a nice ring to it. Beautifully obscure.
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Ditto Diato.
I first saw the term "diato" thirty years ago when first exposed to French diatonic accordeon.
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Diato.net has a nice ring to it. Beautifully obscure.
not so obscure for some of us ;)
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Hello Ronald,
As Canada has historical connections with England, is there any evidence of English music being taken out there?
Thanks
Hugh
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As Canada has historical connections with England, is there any evidence of English music being taken out there?
There's lots of English, Irish and Scottish derived music on the East coast: Nova Scotia, Labrador and Newfoundland.
There's a small group of musicians (http://tethera.webs.com/) at the core of the Mill Race Festival (http://www.millracefolksociety.com/) of Traditional Music in Cambridge, ON who definitely include English music in their repertoire. That's partly because some of them are ex-pat English, but it includes the festival director who has always been Canadian.
Canada also has several morris teams... (http://morrisdancing.wikia.com/wiki/Morris_teams_in_Canada).
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There's also a good traditional music scene on the West Coast. I have friends on Vancouver Island and as well as the usual "Irish" music, there are a good few Morris and Sword (If I remember rightly) sides in BC and English music is played, though mainly by certain of the Morris musicians. A very friendly bunch! :||: :|||: :M :|glug
Chris B.
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Yes I know about Scottish music in Nova Scotia from the Scottish diaspora, but I was wondering whether there was a similar English diaspora. It would be good to think that English music and song could eventually have 'Transatlantic Sessions' similar to the Aly Bain fronted programs on TV that features Scottish and Irish music. What we need is a charismatic person to push something like that forward to give the English tradition some exposure!
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There was plenty of English music (including six Morris teams) in Ontario last summer. They also did a smattering of French/Euro, and had booked Trio D'hoore