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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #100 on: September 29, 2009, 04:52:30 PM »
You get a lot of good flight deals to Inverness from luton & gatwick with flybe & easyjet... transport can be provided from there  ;D
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #101 on: September 29, 2009, 05:00:46 PM »
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er...bit wobbly around 25 second mark! Still, good to see that Mike immediately looked over to the other side of the room to see who was out of time

We missed your steady hand Al.  If you had been there?????? We older blokes take a little bit of warming up before we get going properly you know! A few more times through and it would have been perfect.
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #102 on: September 29, 2009, 05:47:10 PM »
What is reason for these Hohner Compadres being cheap.
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #103 on: September 29, 2009, 05:58:21 PM »
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We missed your steady hand Al.  If you had been there???
Yes...I'm noted for my sense of timing and rhythm  ;)

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What is reason for these Hohner Compadres being cheap
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John, the reason is very low production costs. They're very plastic, put together in China, and mass marketed in Europe and particularly the USA. Having said that I've just bought a brand new 'El Rey Vallenato' in F/Bb/Eb from Rees Wesson of this forum, which is the three voiced version of the Compadre (which is two voiced). It's a super little box - certainly very playable, it has  a small issue with it as a result of something happening to it whilst in transit, which Rees is going to sort out for me. But apart from that I'm very happy. I'm planning on submitting a full and proper review of the box once I've got to know it a bit better.
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #104 on: September 29, 2009, 09:57:17 PM »
The lassie in the Buttons and Bows playing the Shand Morino is Gladys.
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #105 on: September 30, 2009, 12:06:42 AM »
Thanks Ian, I hadn't gotten round to looking it up yet
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #106 on: September 30, 2009, 08:54:11 AM »
Quote from: HallelujahAl on September 29, 2009, 03:42:30 PM
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lismore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7B5kP4cmb0

er...bit wobbly around 25 second mark! Still, good to see that Mike immediately looked over to the other side of the room to see who was out of time ;) A lesson we all learnt at the button box gathering on the Thursday pm gig!
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Just a wee blip caused by some people reading from music with a repeat in it and others playing from memory without a repeat. IIRC, the memory players won.
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #107 on: September 30, 2009, 08:59:37 AM »
Either way it was a good result in 2 days  work.  If we did a 2nd take we might have got it right but wheres the fun in that?
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #108 on: September 30, 2009, 09:12:38 AM »
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If we did a 2nd take we might have got it right but wheres the fun in that?

Yes, our performance was fresh.
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #109 on: September 30, 2009, 09:57:22 AM »
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yes actually now I remember I was also playing a completely different set of dots when we played it through on Saturday - sorry Mike!
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #110 on: October 04, 2009, 04:37:40 PM »
I quite often seem to be playing from different dots to everyone else. I've just got back home after a holiday in Englandshire and had a chance to reflect on a great weekend in Aviemore. Learning to concentrate on technique as well as the tune has certainly given me plenty to think about and I'm now relearning some tunes I was already playing - and amazingly they've become easier to play!

The friendly atmosphere was great and I didn't feel I was out of my depth at all although what we were doing was a challenge. Two great teachers who put up with some very strange noises we were making and still kept smiling! The Box Gathering on the Thursday night I went to with mixed feelings but found I thoroughly enjoyed it so it was a great start to the workshops.

March 2010 seems a long way away but I'm doing my best to improve by then and hopefully I'll enjoy it just as much

Just one question - where were the young players??

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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #111 on: October 04, 2009, 05:56:06 PM »
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where were the young players??
Nigel, I was there... ;)
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #112 on: October 04, 2009, 06:12:14 PM »
Quote from: strad on October 04, 2009, 04:37:40 PM
Just one question - where were the young players??

Nigel

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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #113 on: October 06, 2009, 12:47:34 PM »
Quote from: Bill Young on October 04, 2009, 06:12:14 PM
Quote from: strad on October 04, 2009, 04:37:40 PM
Just one question - where were the young players??

Nigel

I'll always be Young . . .

Boom, boom. In more ways that one Bill!

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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #114 on: April 21, 2010, 07:28:54 PM »
Hi Graeme
Just joined the melnet and missed the workshop. I would be very interested in any future button box workshops that you run. Currently sqeeze a Gaelic 1V.

John
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #115 on: April 22, 2010, 05:13:33 PM »
Now I've recovered from the second workshop I'd just like to say that it was, if anything, more enjoyable than the first one, and the weekend just flew by. Don't those tutors have some patience!!

Nigel
 
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #116 on: April 22, 2010, 05:58:27 PM »
Next one Graeme? I'd like to be there again if at all poss?
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Re: Graeme's button box workshop
« Reply #117 on: April 23, 2010, 01:05:11 AM »
Yeh I'm gonna have to get it organised!  Looking at the september weekend again to tie in with button box gathering.  Will keep you all posted
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