Melodeon.net Forums

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome to the new melodeon.net forum

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5   Go Down

Author Topic: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014  (Read 16543 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Alby

  • Member
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 18
Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« on: June 17, 2013, 05:09:45 PM »

Following the success of the last course there'll be another chance to make the 2.5 row next year.  It's an intensive 9 days but enormous fun with Emmanuel (I will say this only once).  You can choose each note and therefore the keys you want.  It will be in Yeovil and dates will be 24th May - 1st June 2014 (school half term in Somerset).  Cost is the same as this year - £1,825.  You will not be disappointed. 

Please drop me an e-mail for a place on the course and more information.   
alanbalding@yahoo.co.uk
Logged

Theo

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13727
  • Hohner Club Too
    • The Box Place
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2013, 08:10:29 AM »

There are still places available on the 2014 melodeon building course in Yeovil.   As with the previous Yeovil courses organised by Alan Balding the instrument built on this course will be a very versatile two and a half row with 14 basses.  Several melnet members have been on the course in previous years so if you want to know more just ask here.
Logged
Theo Gibb - Gateshead UK

Proprietor of The Box Place for melodeon and concertina sales and service.
Follow me on Twitter and Facebook for stock updates.

Alby

  • Member
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 18
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2013, 10:27:57 AM »

Thanks Theo
The instruments really are first class and you will have a brilliant time - Emmanuel is very funny and cracks jokes throughout the course.  No real skills are necessary and you don't even have to be melodeon player - many people have made them for friends or family members. 

Most importantly please sign up asap.  There is a very long lead time for the parts to be ordered and delivered. 

Logged

xgx

  • Bagpipes & Musette Boxes... and Banjos, luv 'em!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1096
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2013, 10:33:15 AM »

You have new mail Alan  ;)
Logged
Graham

 N Cambs/S Lincs - UK   :|glug + :|glug:|||: = :|bl

Rog

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2295
  • Repair and tuning in Hants
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2013, 06:30:37 PM »

I'm in.

Rog

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2295
  • Repair and tuning in Hants
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2013, 05:08:48 PM »

Anyone else out there fancy doing this course? Alan Balding tells me he needs a few more people to sign up.

John MacKenzie (Cugiok)

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2360
  • Fettling... Learning to reed and right.
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2013, 05:55:51 PM »

I desperately want to go, but I can't raise the cash  :'(

John
Logged
There is no beginning to my talent :)



: Hohner Club Modell 1. Bb/Eb, de-clubbed : Early Hohner Pressed Wood A/D : 1930's Varnished wood G/C:  Hohner Erika C/F: Bandoneon tuned D/G Pressed wood: Koch F/Bb; G/C Pre Corso

TomB

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 514
  • BCC#, Cairden BC Mini and lots of PA's
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2013, 06:50:26 PM »

.. now if I could just sell some of my boxes I don't really need, I could afford to go..  :-\
Logged

Helena Handcart

  • Nine-box Nellie
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2218
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2013, 10:47:29 PM »

Anyone else out there fancy doing this course? Alan Balding tells me he needs a few more people to sign up.

Maybe, if I get

a) suddenly much better at playing (not v likely)
and/or
b) made redundant (v likely)
Logged
Sideways typing on the wooden handbag (now with added electric typewriter).

 Green Man Sword | Helena Handcart on Soundcloud| Squeezebox from Scratch |

MartinW

  • Regular debater
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 192
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2013, 11:11:49 PM »

I would recommend this to anyone. A really great week ending up with the best holiday souvenir I have ever had. The added bonus is that each time I play the melodeon it bring back memories of Emmanuel and the fun I had making it.

Martin
Logged

Bob Ellis

  • Hero?....Where's my medal, then?
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2878
  • Ain't I cute?
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2013, 12:30:50 AM »

I agree entirely with Martin. The pleasure of making the instrument is surpassed only by the pleasure of playing an instrument you have made yourself. My Pariselle box is so responsive and has such a lovely tone that I tend to play it in preference to my Castagnari.

It would be a real shame for those who have signed up for the 2014 course if it had to be cancelled due to insufficient numbers.
Logged
Bob in beautiful Wensleydale, Les Panards Dansants, Crook Morris and the Loose Knit Band.
Clément Guais 3-row D/G/acc.; Castagnari 1914 D/G; Karntnerland Steirische 3-row G/C/F; Ellis Pariselle 2.6-row D/G/acc.; Gabbanelli Compact 2-row D/G with lots of bling, pre-war Hohner Bb/F; Acadian one-row in D.

Graham Spencer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3538
  • MAD as a wet Hohner........
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2013, 04:36:54 AM »

I'd love to go, but I'd need to look very carefully at the logistics, not to mention the cost, of coming from Cyprus.
Logged
Among others, Saltarelle Pastourelle II D/G; Hohner 4-stop 1-rows in C & G; assorted Hohners; 3-voice German (?) G/C of uncertain parentage; lovely little Hlavacek 1-row Heligonka; B♭/E♭ Koch. Newly acquired G/C Hohner Viktoria. Also Fender Jazz bass, Telecaster, Stratocaster, Epiphone Sheraton, Charvel-Jackson 00-style acoustic guitar, Danelectro 12-string and other stuff..........

Squeezing in the Cyprus sunshine

Nick Collis Bird

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3785
  • Been squeezing melodeons for over 48 years (badly)
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2013, 07:15:44 AM »

I'm in, have been since it was first announced.  ;D
Logged
Has anyone heard of the song. “ Broken Alarm-clock Blues” ? It starts   “I woke up this Afternoon”

xgx

  • Bagpipes & Musette Boxes... and Banjos, luv 'em!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1096
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2013, 11:45:06 AM »

Just been looking at the two boxes that Theo has up for sale:
http://www.theboxplace.co.uk/purchase/baldingdg/prod_341.html
and
http://www.theboxplace.co.uk/purchase/eastmonddg/prod_340.html

 ...and noticed that the basses are different.
e.g.   Eb/C#  C/C  C/C  B/E  B/E  F#/F F#/F
   Bb/G#  G/D  G/D  D/A  D/A  A/G  A/G

e.g.   E/C#  C/C   C/C  B/E  B/E   Eb/F#  Eb/F#
       A/G#  G/D   G/D  D/A  D/A   Bb/F   Bb/F

Knowing nowt about basses I have to ask what the differences mean in terms of playability???
also noticed that both boxes do not have thirds in the bass... is that standard for these boxes or it a build choice please?
Logged
Graham

 N Cambs/S Lincs - UK   :|glug + :|glug:|||: = :|bl

GuyWyatt

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 303
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2013, 11:50:33 AM »

I have not been on any of these courses, though I would love to.  I have however played a couple of the instruments that have been built by course participants. They are magnificent. In fact Theo has two of them for sale on his site at £1900 each. You could have a cracking holiday, learn a new skill, and finish up with something tangible that is worth more than the cost of the course. What's not to like?
Logged

Lester

  • MADman
  • Mods and volunteers
  • Hero Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 9107
  • Hohners'R'me
    • Lester's Melodeon Emporium and Tune-a-Rama
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2013, 12:33:04 PM »

Just been looking at the two boxes that Theo has up for sale:
http://www.theboxplace.co.uk/purchase/baldingdg/prod_341.html
and
http://www.theboxplace.co.uk/purchase/eastmonddg/prod_340.html

 ...and noticed that the basses are different.
e.g.   Eb/C#  C/C  C/C  B/E  B/E  F#/F F#/F
   Bb/G#  G/D  G/D  D/A  D/A  A/G  A/G

This, ignoring the 2 left hand buttons, is the standard Saltarelle layout and is what I've got on my Pariselle.

Quote

e.g.   E/C#  C/C   C/C  B/E  B/E   Eb/F#  Eb/F#
       A/G#  G/D   G/D  D/A  D/A   Bb/F   Bb/F

Knowing nowt about basses I have to ask what the differences mean in terms of playability???

Not sure what benefit this layout has.

Quote
also noticed that both boxes do not have thirds in the bass... is that standard for these boxes or it a build choice please?

The Pariselles do not have thirds by design.

Clive Williams

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3557
    • Home Page
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2013, 12:45:19 PM »

Just been looking at the two boxes that Theo has up for sale:
http://www.theboxplace.co.uk/purchase/baldingdg/prod_341.html
and
http://www.theboxplace.co.uk/purchase/eastmonddg/prod_340.html

 ...and noticed that the basses are different.
e.g.   Eb/C#  C/C  C/C  B/E  B/E  F#/F F#/F
   Bb/G#  G/D  G/D  D/A  D/A  A/G  A/G

e.g.   E/C#  C/C   C/C  B/E  B/E   Eb/F#  Eb/F#
       A/G#  G/D   G/D  D/A  D/A   Bb/F   Bb/F

Knowing nowt about basses I have to ask what the differences mean in terms of playability???
also noticed that both boxes do not have thirds in the bass... is that standard for these boxes or it a build choice please?

There are threads kicking around on this I think; in summary the first layout is more flexible in how you play something (more push pull options), the second layout is more flexible in what you play (chords for just about everything, but you're limited in having to play it on either push or pull, without choice of bellows direction).

Also worth noticing is the direction of the F# chord. You want it on the push if you want it in the right direction for playing in D (just as B is on the push for playing in G)... or you want it on the pull if playing blues in F# is your thing, where I gather a full F# blues scale is available on the pull on the treble end. Chris of this parish does this a lot; I'm sure he'll be along in a bit to confirm/condemn my shaky memory.

So the bottom line is, it depends on the music you want to play. I'm a F# push/first layout chap myself. The first layout makes it easier to play in D/G, the second layout makes it possible to play in other keys.

Clive

Theo

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13727
  • Hohner Club Too
    • The Box Place
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2013, 01:13:05 PM »

And the note layout is your choice if you do the course.   It can be in any key, any choice of low notes, accidentals, where the scale starts, bass layout etc.  There are some constraints:   two voice treble, maximum 25 treble buttons (some have built just two rows on the treble side), chords have only two reeds so no thirds and the 14 bass layout is like a standard 12 bass but with two extra buttons that just play basses. 

Reeds have to be ordered by Emmanuel well in advance, so you do need to make decisions fairly soon if you want a variation on the standard layout that he proposes.
Logged
Theo Gibb - Gateshead UK

Proprietor of The Box Place for melodeon and concertina sales and service.
Follow me on Twitter and Facebook for stock updates.

xgx

  • Bagpipes & Musette Boxes... and Banjos, luv 'em!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1096
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2013, 02:13:09 PM »

Lester, Clive, Theo thanks for your help!
Logged
Graham

 N Cambs/S Lincs - UK   :|glug + :|glug:|||: = :|bl

Chris Ryall

  • "doc 3-row"
  • French Interpreter
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10171
  • Wirral UK
    • Chris Ryall
Re: Melodeon Making with Emmanuel - 2014
« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2013, 02:14:52 PM »

I'd love to go, but I'd need to look very carefully at the logistics, not to mention the cost, of coming from Cyprus.

whoops! wrong button [needed clarification]

With quite a few melodeonistas from here committing I suspect help with logistics may be available in return for mileage share and the conversation. I've become a dab hand at dropping people at airports in various countries, and coming back from my first Ghent weekend I got a very useful lift to Brussel airport. I won't be a "maker" this time, though can offer a lift to Ghent ;)

Perhaps anyone else interested in this jolly might PM Graham?
Logged
  _       _    _      _ 
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5   Go Up
 


Melodeon.net - (c) Theo Gibb; Clive Williams 2010. The access and use of this website and forum featuring these terms and conditions constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions.
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal