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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #60 on: December 02, 2012, 03:53:13 PM »

The late Dave Robert's bagpipes went in the fire with him, melodeon escaped incineration
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #61 on: December 02, 2012, 04:14:08 PM »

At the height of my E2 days I used to swing my accordion (Baffetti Black Pearl) around my head by the straps. At one gig I got over excited and slid the poor Dino right across the front of the big stage like a bowling ball. Unfortunately the delivery developed a curve and took out the bass trombone from its stand. Bent slide, £2000 repair job, but John still loves me.  :(
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #62 on: December 02, 2012, 04:59:15 PM »

I must have gone to an up-market school.  One of the lads learnt how to make fulminate of mercury and painted it onto everything the teacher was likely to push/pull/drag - quite funny until he painted the doorframe and blew it clean out of the wall!  Easy to clean the brush out - just drop it out of the window...


Feral kids out of control with no respect for authority, what is the world coming to!....and explosions!, people could get seriously hurt, it can't get much worse than that, society is on the brink of collapse!.  >:(

Oh, wait, it was a long time ago....ah, the good old days, such fun... ;D
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #63 on: December 02, 2012, 06:33:13 PM »

Back to anagrams of "melodeon", how come nobody noticed the terribly topical "noel mode" ?
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #64 on: December 02, 2012, 10:27:20 PM »

"Dancing to a Piano Accordion is like dancing through custard" - an "old" (he's younger than me!) melodeonist (Pikey knows who!).  :||:
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #65 on: December 03, 2012, 04:28:35 AM »

Back to anagrams of "melodeon", how come nobody noticed the terribly topical "noel mode" ?
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #66 on: December 03, 2012, 08:29:28 AM »

"Dancing to a Piano Accordion is like dancing through custard" - an "old" (he's younger than me!) melodeonist (Pikey knows who!).  :||:

Far too sweeping a statement IMHO. It is the player that makes music danceable, not the instrument.  I can think of several piano accordion players that play great dance music, and the converse, I have heard dull music played on a diatonic.

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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #67 on: December 03, 2012, 08:40:38 AM »

"Dancing to a Piano Accordion is like dancing through custard"

I know I've said it before on this forum, but, ever been to a Romanian wedding?

[Sorry, I know this started off as a very light hearted thread, it was a funny one too...]

[And, to be fair, after some plum brandy I probably looked as if I was dancing through custard.  The Romanians seemed to be doing OK.]
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #68 on: December 03, 2012, 10:02:40 AM »

"Dancing to a Piano Accordion is like dancing through custard" - an "old" (he's younger than me!) melodeonist (Pikey knows who!).  :||:

Far too sweeping a statement IMHO. It is the player that makes music danceable, not the instrument.  I can think of several piano accordion players that play great dance music, and the converse, I have heard dull music played on a diatonic.

me too - Chris Parkinson for one is a great PA player, and of course Phil Cunningham. They don't all use the 'wall of mush' technique (which I've also heard from some melodeon players).
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #69 on: December 03, 2012, 10:14:03 AM »

I find myself agreeing with you again....how strange  :o
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #70 on: December 03, 2012, 10:22:59 AM »

Chris Parkinson for one is a great PA player

...who could play most of us off the stage on melodeon too! Too clever by half.

Scotland is, of course, full of good PA players. They exist in rarer numbers in England too.
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #71 on: December 03, 2012, 11:19:20 AM »



Chris Parkinson for one is a great PA player


...who could play most of us off the stage on melodeon too! Too clever by half.

Scotland is, of course, full of good PA players. They exist in rarer numbers in England too.

Chris is also an excellent Melodeon player, he also plays drums...I need to have a word with him about that !  ::)
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #72 on: December 03, 2012, 02:44:50 PM »

Another multi-talented chap from the broad acres.....   ;)
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #73 on: December 03, 2012, 02:55:48 PM »

And a young man called Sam Pirt almost had me considering swapping across to the DARK SIDE  earlier this year. He plays the most INCREDIBLE PA music and the rhythms he produces are electrifying. See him on youtube in The Hut People, 422, and several other bands he is involved with. Nothing custardy about our Sam!
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #74 on: December 03, 2012, 04:08:06 PM »

The similarity between an Accordion and a Melodeon is that they both have cardboard lungs.
End of comparison !!!
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #75 on: December 03, 2012, 04:24:15 PM »

One has 9 letters and one has 8.  ;)
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #76 on: December 03, 2012, 04:28:37 PM »

Over here in Northern Ireland, I was informed by a bodhrán player that a melodeon has one row, and that my D/G Erica was an accordion. However, back home I call both 1 and 2 row 'accordions', MELODEONS. In my opinion, accordions are big hefty things with over 8  or 12 basses respectfully. Bit of a narrow minded view I know, but there y'ar.  8)
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #77 on: December 03, 2012, 04:46:11 PM »

Most of the world doesn't use the term 'melodeon' in the way that the English do.  Some cultures , Cajun for example, call a one row box an accordion.
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #78 on: December 03, 2012, 05:01:14 PM »

Most of the world doesn't use the term 'melodeon' in the way that the English do.  Some cultures , Cajun for example, call a one row box an accordion.
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Re: "The difference between a melodeon and an accordion is..."
« Reply #79 on: December 03, 2012, 08:21:56 PM »

Are PA's more common in the UK than melodeons?

There's no question that most people in NA think of PA's when you say "Accordion" - the term "melodeon is completely unknown. The music they associate with it is either polka (courtesy of Lawrence Welk) or French cafe-style music.
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