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Clive Williams

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Nice general theme for this month with thanks to MatlockBather; play us a tune that has some special meaning to you; some memory perhaps, reminds you of something, sometime or someplace. Tell us a bit about it too; why you chose that tune, and what it means to you... and lets learn a little something more about each other.

Happy playing!

Clive

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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2014, 12:41:17 PM »

As no-one else has posted yet, here's Black Joke played (rather exhaustingly) on my Pokerwork. I grew up in Adderbury and danced in the morris side as a teenager, and this is one of the tunes I remembered more than anything else, and was therefore also one of the first tunes I learnt when I took up the melodeon. It's not exactly a delicate recording (it's really hard work on this box with all the bellows changes), and the tiny mic on the tablet I recorded it on doesn't seem to agree entirely with the box. Played more or less as it's danced in Cardiff, albeit a bit faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQw7Y3sGck
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2014, 03:24:21 PM »

This is the first tune I ever learned to play on melodeon, played on the melodeon I learned it on ! 1976 Hohner Pokerwork. Now very well worn.  I give you, the Heel and Toe Polka.

http://youtu.be/9c9ijcMgLwI
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2014, 04:03:29 PM »

This is the first tune I ever learned to play on melodeon, played on the melodeon I learned it on ! 1976 Hohner Pokerwork. Now very well worn.  I give you, the Heel and Toe Polka.

http://youtu.be/9c9ijcMgLwI

Brilliant Pikey, and not a melodeon face in sight. My first tune was " Jockey to the Fair" I should put that one up.  ;D
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2014, 04:20:02 PM »

Somehow pneumonia has had two benefits : no melodeon face, and the ability to sing bottom C again!!
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2014, 11:13:41 PM »

And these tunes remind me of when I was learning to play, in my bedroom in my parents house with headphones on, playing along to Bob Canns LP...

http://soundcloud.com/kevin-holland-7/bob-cann-waltzes/s-XrZsH
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2014, 12:00:23 AM »

This little ditty was Liz and my first dance at our wedding; well strictly, Gordon Potts' wonderful couple dance Rosza was the first dance, and this was the tune for it.... which is of course Michael Turner's Waltz.

I've recorded this before when it was TOTM as a frightfully clever 5/4 variation, but here it is in it's simpler, sparcer form, played straight (ish) and with feeling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yd3n_qjRIU

Cheers,

Clive

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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2014, 12:29:53 AM »

Beautiful Martin!

 (I've taken the liberty of fixing your link!)

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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2014, 12:59:08 AM »

Martin, I've just come in from the pub. My mate, Dangerous Dave was playing (he used to be Sir Dangerous Dave, Minister of Defence, Monster Raving Loony Party). Great singer, fab guitarist, I digress (drink was taken).
Anyways, nice tune, lovely playing, nice and lovely.
Sending me off to bobos a treat.......... 
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2014, 01:02:22 AM »

I have many tunes that mean a million to me. There is one special tune that I would like to post here but it is only available commercially (I will not upload the CD track as it would infringe all sorts of shit).
So, can you cope with a link to Amazon? It'll cost you  :o
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2014, 08:02:29 AM »

What bum notes? Even if I could spot them, a few bum notes are of no consequence in the context of a lovely tune played with feeling .
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2014, 10:22:01 AM »

Sweet!  (:)
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2014, 11:52:46 AM »

[ Side question, and this is driving me nuts at the minute, listening to Martin's lovely piece as I have a few times (going to try learning it, though I'll doubt I'll get anywhere near the subtlety Martin gets in it), has anyone found a reliable way of stopping soundcloud playing another soundfile right after it, automatically? I get Malcolm Clapp's melodeon Blackadder after *everything* I listen to on Soundcloud - Malcolm, it's great playing to be sure, but it doesn't quite fit the mood!  ;D ]

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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2014, 12:44:37 PM »

I get Blackadder all of the time too, it wouldn't be so bad if it played the next piece by the person you're listening to. PITA!
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2014, 12:58:03 PM »

The worst thing for me being that I hear Malcom's Blackadder so often on SoundCloud now that I can no longer remember what British Grenadiers is supposed to sound like; they're just similar enough at the start :|bl
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2014, 12:59:04 PM »

I agree. The novelty of Blackadder is now wearing thin.
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2014, 01:04:42 PM »

Perhaps someone should come up with a cunning plan. ;)
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2014, 01:34:18 PM »

Here's one: Dvajspetorka, a Macedonian Dance tune in 25/8 time. (simples: 7 + 7 + 4 + 7 where each 7 is 3+2+2  >:E )

The story: 15 years ago or so I got quite intrigued with the idea of playing Balkan music on a melodeon, and started looking for tunes, but was having some difficulty finding much to play. At a Sidmouth Folk festival around then I met a young lady who'd just got hold of Linsey Pollak's book "Macedonian Folk Music". It wasn't for sale anywhere at Sidmouth: she had bought hers at some European folk festival earlier that Summer. We agreed that If I paid for it, she'd get a photocopy made of the book and the next day she duly turned up at an agreed rendezvous with the goods. Over the next few years I spent many happy and frustrating hours trying to learn some of those tunes. Most are in irregular time signatures or use strange scales, sometimes with both sharps and flats in the key signature. They are are a terrific challenge for a melodeon player used to English music and I've had a lot of fun with them. I've since bought Linsey Pollak's CD of some of the tunes from the book, and Mary and I once worked up an arrangement of one of them (straight G major, but 13/8 time...) and also went on our first holiday together to a BalkanFolk course in Pamporovo, Bulgaria, where we learned a whole range of dances and to play various exotic instruments, some of which we bought, brought home and really should be playing more...
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2014, 02:44:00 PM »

The worst thing for me being that I hear Malcom's Blackadder so often on SoundCloud now that I can no longer remember what British Grenadiers is supposed to sound like; they're just similar enough at the start :|bl

Argh! That's ruined it for me, I never considered the similarity  until you mentioned it . Now I can't remember either of them.
 Am already having enough trouble remembering difference between "The March of the Men of Harlech" and the German National Anthem. And no, no drink has been taken, have spent the last four hours negotiating the M3 and the Marylebone Road  >:(
« Last Edit: March 08, 2014, 02:48:53 PM by Nick Collis Bird »
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Re: Theme of the Month for March 2014: Tunes that Mean Something to You
« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2014, 05:39:16 PM »

Sending me off to bobos a treat..........

bobos, haven't heard that since mu mum died, bought back good memories.  (:)
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