Topic: New member from Canada (Read 4423 times)

Ronald Denis · « **on:** November 10, 2015, 01:49:35 PM »

Hello,
I am a new member from Canada
I have been looking through this forum for a long time.
I play diatonic, concertina and some piano accordion.
I am interested in learning more about building a one row
and anything that is related to the melodeon.
Very knowledgeable people here.
Ronald Denis

malcolmbebb · « **Reply #1 on:** November 10, 2015, 02:08:02 PM »

Hi Ronald - welcome to the mad house.
Did you get you bass reeds sorted out?

Nick Collis Bird · « **Reply #2 on:** November 10, 2015, 03:16:34 PM »

Hi Ronald and welcome. As you already know you have joined a great group of people , knowledgable, friendly and fun. All the Melodion questions you'll ever ask, I'm sure will be answered here.

Lester · « **Reply #3 on:** November 10, 2015, 03:23:58 PM »

Quote from: Nick Collis Bird on November 10, 2015, 03:16:34 PM

Hi Ronald and welcome. As you already know you have joined a great group of people , knowledgable, friendly and fun. All the Melodion questions you'll ever ask, I'm sure will be answered here.

Questions like how to spell melodeon :)

Hi Roland

Ronald Denis · « **Reply #4 on:** November 10, 2015, 03:52:02 PM »

Thanks for the greetings,
No Malcolm, I did not get the bass reeds sorted out.
I have been trying to get on this forum for quite some time, but I never read beyond
new membership disabled, until I figured it out.
I have a Korg 0t-120 on the way and will try to individually listen to the three bass reeds
on my Saltarelle B/C and my hohner one row Vienna to try and figure the bass reed sizes.
Ronald

Nick Collis Bird · « **Reply #5 on:** November 10, 2015, 04:17:29 PM »

Quote from: Lester on November 10, 2015, 03:23:58 PM

Quote from: Nick Collis Bird on November 10, 2015, 03:16:34 PM
Hi Ronald and welcome. As you already know you have joined a great group of people , knowledgable, friendly and fun. All the Melodion questions you'll ever ask, I'm sure will be answered here.

Questions like how to spell melodeon :)

Hi Roland

Oh stop it!

Chris Ryall · « **Reply #6 on:** November 10, 2015, 06:39:24 PM »

.
Canada is rather a large place ?? (just got back)

Ronald Denis · « **Reply #7 on:** November 10, 2015, 08:02:13 PM »

Northern Ontario
A little town (village) named Haileybury
on the Ontario side of Lake Temiskaming.
Haileybury was named after the famous college in England
as it's founder C. C. Farr was born there....the town... not the college I presume.
Love the button accordion as I am French Canadian, being from the first generation born in Ontario
in 1958. My father played the one row.
We call them Accordeon a bouttons in Quebec.
Cheers
Ronald
PS Yes Chris, Canada is a large place; just saying I am from there definitely makes it a blanket statement and a little ambiguous.

mselic · « **Reply #8 on:** November 11, 2015, 01:28:13 AM »

Nice to have another Canadian on here! I live in Wakefield, Quebec, in the capital region, and have recently gotten back into Quebecois music with a newly acquired, quebec-made "accordeon a bouttons"

That quebecois accordion/fiddle music is fast! Nice to have you on here :)

AirTime · « **Reply #9 on:** November 11, 2015, 02:18:44 AM »

Greetings from the Ontario Riviera - the Niagara region.

Chris Ryall · « **Reply #10 on:** November 11, 2015, 08:35:53 AM »

Way!! Just got there.

Was lovely. Lots of lovely little towns with homes backing down onto the lake

We tried Syracuse too, even saw some Amish, but the lure of Canada and the St Lawrence quickly bought us back over the border.

triskel · « **Reply #11 on:** November 11, 2015, 03:07:56 PM »

Quote from: Lester on November 10, 2015, 03:23:58 PM

Quote from: Nick Collis Bird on November 10, 2015, 03:16:34 PM
All the Melodion questions you'll ever ask, I'm sure will be answered here.
Questions like how to spell melodeon :)

Hi Roland

As a matter of fact "melodeon" was not uncommonly spelled "melodion" in its early years, going back to the late 1870s/early 1880s.

Only I didn't realise Nick had been around that long...

And "Roland" is "Ronald"...

Bienvenue à la maison des fous Ronald!

Nick Collis Bird · « **Reply #12 on:** November 11, 2015, 03:17:02 PM »

Rob2Hook · « **Reply #13 on:** November 12, 2015, 01:51:57 AM »

To quote Asterix - "Ils sont foux, ces Anglais!"

Doubt I'll ever get to Canada again, but spent a couple of months inToronto learning to build a tandem mass spectrometer with Sciex. Had a great time and even went sailing up at Midland, played softball after work and drank far too much Becks - rotten hangovers.

One of my ex-boxes has a new life there when I sold it to Zabrina in the London area. I'm told there are a few sessions thereabouts.

Rob.

diatosoldo · « **Reply #14 on:** November 15, 2015, 03:22:19 PM »

Hello new canadian member. I like your country (have been to Montmagny festival last summer, found it gorgious !)
Regards.
PS : by the way you could spell "mélodéon"

Chris Ryall · « **Reply #15 on:** November 15, 2015, 03:35:23 PM »

«melodeon» I think

(un mot qu' on n' a jamais entendu sur l' hexagon )

diatosoldo · « **Reply #16 on:** November 15, 2015, 06:57:22 PM »

Quote from: Chris Ryall on November 15, 2015, 03:35:23 PM

«melodeon» I think (un mot qu' on n' a jamais entendu sur l' hexagon )

Not often indeed ! But we sometimes say "mélodéon" for one row instruments (for Québec or cajun music, for example)

Martin P · « **Reply #17 on:** November 16, 2015, 10:19:37 AM »

But of course most of us play Diatonic Button Accordionjs, which sounds wonderful as Accordéon diatonique deux rangées huit basses. Perhaps we need to rename this forum as DBA.net, which would whittle down the membership.

Chris Ryall · « **Reply #18 on:** November 16, 2015, 08:59:30 PM »

…
virtually always abbreviated to «diato» in the land of (Ahem!) accordéons

Martin P · « **Reply #19 on:** November 16, 2015, 10:19:21 PM »

Diato.net has a nice ring to it. Beautifully obscure.

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