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[triskel]

There's a tribute to the great Finbarr Dwyer on TG4 tomorrow at 10.00 PM, and here's the trailer for it: Rí na gCnaipí Promo

[Stiamh]

Now viewable on the TG4 web player.

Great little programme. At around the 5:30 mark he can be heard and seen playing a highly arpeggiated tune on a big red Paolo in what I take to be BCC# - although Noel Hill says a little later that he played the CBA - can any BCC# players tell which system it is?

[KLR]

That's the Waltz of the Birds from his Accordion Music From the Soul CD.  I think it's one of his own tunes but not sure - I only have a dub of this record.  Can't tell from the playing what system that is - it sounds like you could play much of it in one direction, after all.  I've always assumed Finnbar played a BCC#, they show an old LP here with him holding the big 3 row with PA bass and the sound on his old records is definitely the big multi voice tone you get from those Scottish accordions with all the stops pulled out, and it's definitely a bisonoric box too.  Interesting that he also played the CBA. 

I included the cover of that LP I mentioned in my thread about Irish BCC# players.  Thanks for the link, Stephen! 

[gettabettabox]

boys o' boys...this is why i pay for broadband....keep 'em coming!
happy this evening. 

[waltzman]

Now viewable on the TG4 web player.

Great little programme. At around the 5:30 mark he can be heard and seen playing a highly arpeggiated tune on a big red Paolo in what I take to be BCC# - although Noel Hill says a little later that he played the CBA - can any BCC# players tell which system it is?

The speed at which he can move the bass side in and out suggests a large air hole which is good evidence, I think, that this is a BCC#

[Anahata]

I had that Finbarr Dwyer album with the 3 row box on the front cover, and at the time a friend of mine had a Paolo Soprani B/C/C# box which we observed to be identical in appearance to the one in the cover picture.

And yes, it had a very gulpy air button (more of a bar than a button, because your hand might be anywhere up and down those Stradella basses)

[KLR]

I think that's the BCC#, the tune is in A and he looks to be playing arpeggios of shell chords like G#-E-B and E-D-B.  On either system of CBA what he's fingering would give results more akin to Schoenberg, methinks.  But check with George Garside or Graeme Mackay.