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Author Topic: The Bluebell Polka arranged for ADG melodeon  (Read 7126 times)

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Re: The Bluebell Polka arranged for ADG melodeon
« Reply #20 on: September 14, 2012, 12:33:52 PM »

Is there a debate? What's the debate?  >:E

In case that wasn't entirely ironic...
http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,9947.0.html
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Re: The Bluebell Polka arranged for ADG melodeon
« Reply #21 on: September 14, 2012, 01:20:58 PM »

I'm sayin nuffin.....
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Re: The Bluebell Polka arranged for ADG melodeon
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2012, 08:57:51 AM »

All right! I confess. Last night I took part in a performance which broke all the rules. Firstly we played the C part in G, secondly we omitted part D and thirdly nobody had an ADG. Placetne magister?  :|bl
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Re: The Bluebell Polka arranged for ADG melodeon
« Reply #23 on: September 15, 2012, 09:29:42 AM »

Non Placet!  :o
Especially as the absence of an ADG melodeon makes it technically off topic  ;)

By the way, (and back on topic) I first learned the Bluebell Polka from Colin Cater, who in those days played an A/D/G Corona III, and he did the obvious thing:
A music in D on the D row,
B music in A on the A row,
C music in G on the G row

So the whole tune tune was transposed, but it all fitted perfectly on the three rows of the box.
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Re: The Bluebell Polka arranged for ADG melodeon
« Reply #24 on: September 15, 2012, 04:33:41 PM »

as far as I am aware the first recording of the ''bluebell polka''  was made in by james brown ( melodeon) in May 1911 when it (the tune not the song) was known as the Little Pet Polka .  Jimmy Shand recorded a very similer version  before the war on a hohner   'L'organola ( possibly 2 row but more likely BCC#)

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Re: The Bluebell Polka arranged for ADG melodeon
« Reply #25 on: September 17, 2012, 03:12:17 PM »

as far as I am aware the first recording of the ''bluebell polka''  was made in by james brown ( melodeon) in May 1911 when it (the tune not the song) was known as the Little Pet Polka .  Jimmy Shand recorded a very similer version  before the war on a hohner   'L'organola ( possibly 2 row but more likely BCC#)

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James Brown???? Did he take it to the bridge? And in what key??
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