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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #160 on: December 26, 2012, 12:36:52 AM »

Spotted a squeezebox on downtown abbey. Its definately not a pa.

Two, in fact. One in the Scottish ceilidh band, and one heard but not seen in the fair...so who were the Morris side?

Berkshire Bedlam, though not in their usual kit.
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #161 on: January 16, 2013, 10:09:31 PM »

It seems that we (Panjandrum) didn't get cut out of "Cheerful Weather for the Wedding" after all, an advert in the Observer sunday mag said it came on on DVD last Monday, and a friend just saw it on a plane to Aus and said the music was surprisingly good for a film :-)

So if you want to see me -- with a Hitler haircut -- playing a Preciosa in a romantic comedy set in the 1930s...

Ian

P.S. They said "Is it OK if we trim your hair a bit?", then I took my specs off which meant I didn't see the end result until it was finished :-(
P.P.S. You don't know the meaning of repetitive until you've played the same tune for *seven* hours of takes...
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #162 on: January 16, 2013, 10:50:39 PM »

P.P.S. You don't know the meaning of repetitive until you've played the same tune for *seven* hours of takes...

JK would be proud of you!

Rob.

P.S. I bet you got your bit right every take - so why do the actors make the big bucks?
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #163 on: January 17, 2013, 02:33:41 PM »

P.P.S. You don't know the meaning of repetitive until you've played the same tune for *seven* hours of takes...

JK would be proud of you!

Rob.

P.S. I bet you got your bit right every take - so why do the actors make the big bucks?

It wouldn't have mattered whether we got it right or not, the dancers were listening to concealed speakers close to them quietly playing the final mix of the studio recording we did a fortnight earlier, and we were playing along even more quietly (or silently for the fiddles, which had soaped bows) to make sure everything was in sync on every take. If we'd been playing along live at normal volume it would have interfered with the dialogue recording, and any slight speed differences would have made editing much more difficult since we insisted that the music was in time with the dancing, unlike many films ;-)

So that was 7 hours of "The Moon and Seven Stars", then lunch (at 4pm!), then 3 hours of Michael Turner's Waltz. Still, can't complain, the poor guy sitting on the bench next to the stage near my left leg looking fed up with a pint of beer had to do that (in exactly the same place and pose) on and off for ten hours -- and it wasn't even beer, it was ginger beer with food colouring added...
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #164 on: January 17, 2013, 02:57:22 PM »

...it was ginger beer with food colouring added...

No wonder he was looking miserable!

Rob.
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #165 on: January 18, 2017, 03:06:15 AM »

New BBC One series called "Taboo". I heard some melodeon played in the pub in the first episode. Not sure if I'll be able to find a clip of it but I'll search
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #166 on: January 18, 2017, 07:23:46 AM »

Oh dear Taboo is supposed to be set in 1814.
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #167 on: January 19, 2017, 01:02:06 AM »

A shade to the edge of topic but a 'Hitlers Champions' documentary on Yesterday (channel) recently featured the Nazi mountaineers who were filmed to bring glory rather than the ensuing disaster in a fatal avalanche, there was a short clip of their training, including using a 'state of the art' spirometer (?) for measuring lung capacity and / or pressure, which looked like a set of accordion or melodeon bellows opening & closing in a frame, presumably spring closed - I did wonder if they might have been glued up on a bench along with Liliputs or the like in the Hohner factory. Always fascinating to learn what such firms, set up for precision or detailed production, did for whichever side war efforts, often cutting edge when divulged !

I've also been intrigued bythe German WW1 officer type (UK officers, seem to be worn by other ranks in this instance)uniform caps seen on some of the centenary documentaries, many of which seem to feature a white button like an old style screw on white key like the old Hohners & Kochs used - never having seen one in real life, were they a working button (same sort of position as UK regimental badges) or for decoration ?? Use seems to have persisted into WW2 - it struck me that they rather flew in the face of camoflage, if someone was looking for a target in poor light and they weren't playing a Hohner :(
 
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #168 on: January 26, 2017, 10:28:37 PM »

Have you heard about Pippi Longstocking.
  This film is by the same author.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4y9Ewn-3s

This film is a classic.  (In Sweden)

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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #169 on: February 23, 2019, 03:16:25 AM »

Another...just watched the 1963 classic film "McLintock!" starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.
Spotted what looks like a 1 row Koch several times. 1st playing with the band welcoming Becky home and then again in the band at the 4th of July barbecue.  The movie is set in 1895 and I think the melodeon I saw was accurate for the period, or very close. I've seen this movie many times, but never noticed this until after I started with the melodeon!
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #170 on: May 19, 2020, 04:14:05 PM »

Being allowed a short respite from my home refurbishing duties, I watched part of the Bob and Bing film "The Road to Utopia".
I was surprised to see (about 25 to 30 minutes in) Bob Hope "playing" a melodeon! Seeing as we've only got Freeview at the moment, I couldn't stop it and have a good look to see what it was. Perhaps someone else could look at it, or post a little clip?
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #171 on: May 19, 2020, 04:59:09 PM »

I happened to catch the start of a re-run of "Lark Rise to Candleford" on BBC Entertainment last night (right up to date on Cyprus TV!) and of course the character of Alf Arliss features regularly as a melodeon player. Remarkable instrument he plays - it's a Ludwig-style Saxony cheapie 1-row typical of its period, yet he managed to play it in C, G and Bb with a nice full left-hand accompaniment in all 3 keys.........

On the plus side, the actor in question looks as though he does play the box - or else he's had a VERY good coach.

Is it not our very own Mr Wesson doing melodeoning I Larkrise?


Alf could play a bit, I just did the tricky tunes.
In the second picture, Alf is playing a Hohner circa 1940 - the series is set in 1895!
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #172 on: May 19, 2020, 06:51:52 PM »

The John Ford film, “Wagon Master”, features some two and three row playing for dancing, if menory serves. It’s set in about 1880.  ;)
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #173 on: May 20, 2020, 11:53:57 AM »

I think Wagonmaster was on the spin on one of the movie channels in the last few days...
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #174 on: August 12, 2020, 05:09:38 PM »

“I’m No Longer here” (2019 Film):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=TOXSbKLtQsI
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #175 on: August 13, 2020, 07:04:15 AM »

It's a few years since i saw Last King of Scotland but I'm fairly certain Forrest Whitaker is shown playing a Hohner 4 stop in it - but in the famous Youtube clip above Idi is playing a 2 voice 1 row. Possibly as dictator of Uganda he had a whole fleet of melodeons? Apart from Passion Fish and Southern Comfort already discussed, K PAX with Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges is the only other one I can think of - there's a party in the day room of the psychiatric unit and there's a melodeon standing on one of the tables - no one plays it and you have to wonder why its there?
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #176 on: August 13, 2020, 08:13:24 AM »



I've also been intrigued bythe German WW1 officer type (UK officers, seem to be worn by other ranks in this instance)uniform caps seen on some of the centenary documentaries, many of which seem to feature a white button like an old style screw on white key like the old Hohners & Kochs used - never having seen one in real life, were they a working button (same sort of position as UK regimental badges) or for decoration ?? Use seems to have persisted into WW2 - it struck me that they rather flew in the face of camoflage, if someone was looking for a target in poor light and they weren't playing a Hohner :(

They are badges, or more precisely, cockades. They vary according to the regiment's particular German state (e.g. Baden, Bavaria etc.) and the reason for usually seeing two on a cap is that one is for the state, and the other for the Reich. Search for "German World War 1 cap cockades" will show examples. They do indeed make a fine target, but they were really "out-of-the line" wear (like British caps) and the normal German front-line headgear after about 1915/16 was the "Stahlhelm".
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #177 on: August 19, 2020, 09:34:45 AM »

There is a lot of diatonic accordion music in the form of Cumbia and Vallenato, as well as a few diatonic accordion appearances in the 2007 film “Cumbia Connection” (Cumbia Callera in spanish). It is set in Monterrey, Mexico at a time when the “CHOLOmbian” fashion was in style. The movie itself was just OK I guess...

Accordion appears at 3:11, 8:37 and 9:23

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=E1XWfuAc1xY
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #178 on: October 09, 2020, 10:08:45 PM »

Just caught up on John Wayne's 'The Searchers' currently available on BBC's iPlayer.
The film starts off with "Texas 1868...." and 5 years later, they're still searching!
That makes it 1875.
At 88mins 25secs +/- a few seconds, the wedding scene hoe down starts with the bass end of an 8 bass ( 2 row? ) swinging into a tune.
It was looking extremely like the bass end of a full sized Hohner, brown, sort of Erika-ish which shouldn't be invented until 1935!!
Just saying  ::)

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Don't think I'll watch another one though.....  :(
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Re: Melodeons appearing in films...
« Reply #179 on: October 10, 2020, 09:21:29 AM »

The Searchers is a rather depressing example of the genre. You should try something like The Outlaw Josey Wales (my favourite western, although unfortunately there's not a melodeon in sight).
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