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[Clive Williams]

Last month we picked tunes from Lester's wonderful tune a day blog;

http://lesters-tune-a-day.blogspot.co.uk/p/tune-index.html

This month, as ably predicted by Anahata, pick a tune not on this list for Lester to learn - it needs to fit on a standard 2 row though!

What do you think Lester will like?

Cheers,
Clive

[The Happy Wanderer]

How about the Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie Polka? 

Thank you God for helping me get, and play the melodeon and harmonica. I am extremely grateful for these gifts. Amen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-l7NvaNFk

[george garside]

All  1  or 2 rowable

Duke of Perth G 4/4  first ever tune I learned on melodeon nearly 60 years ago

Hamilton House 6/8  nice 48 bar 3 parter in G

My Home and Highland Cradle song  3/4 waltz set

Oh dem golden slippers D 4/4 cracking square dance tune goes well with yellow rose of Texas. Oh Susanna, Swanea river etc etc

george

[Greyhound]

I'm attempting to learn this tune at the moment,but it's my first attempt at 3/4 time,so I'm anticipating problems 
I'd like to see it played on a 2 row please 
http://thesession.org/tunes/8798

[Lester]

Always surprised he hasn't recorded Seven Stars   

[folkbluesnbeyond]

https://youtu.be/fb7VjLpNw_U

Roscoe, old time fiddlers can explore their tunes seemingly for hours. Coming in at under two minutes is pretty restrained.

Best wishes

Bill

[The Happy Wanderer]

Here's Polish tune called the Wishing Well Waltz (called Głęboka Studzienka in Polish.) Should be playable on a normal two row. 

Dear God, thank you for helping me get, and play the melodeon, and harmonica. I am extremely grateful for these gifts! Amen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq32DxOs_yY

[Nick Collis Bird]

Happy,
You really have come on in leaps and bounds! Well done.

[The Happy Wanderer]

Happy,
You really have come on in leaps and bounds! Well done.

Thanks! 

[Clive Williams]

Thought I better get this in before Lester records something else and makes it ineligible :-)

A rather waltzy arrangement of Scarborough Fair, played on a 1920's 12 bass Hohner G/C melodeon. I don't use the extra basses on this, so it's perfectly playable on a standard 2 row 8 bass instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofEd6sb2QS8

Cheers,

Clive

[baz parkes]

Given his long association with the morris, "A Morris Dance".  From the playing of John Mason of Stow in the Wold via Andy Turner and Geckoes.  They tell us "almost certainly not a morris dance".  I think Lester will agree.

https://youtu.be/_6fx7ttofdg

[The Happy Wanderer]

Dear God, thank you for helping me get, and play the melodeon, and harmonica. I am extremely grateful for these gifts! Amen.

How about the Silk Umbrella Polka? 

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbo1QIoXhk

[penn]

Here's a tune learnt from an abc I came across when looking for Italian tunes, although I can appreciate my rendition doesn't sound terribly Italian.
Tarantella Calabrese from an arrangement by Ed Rennie played on a Hohner four-stop-one-row in G, sounding fairly throaty.
https://youtu.be/NLb08aojpzI
Steve

[pikey]

Osborne's Mistake.  A tune I wrote for TOTM a while back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KMxLIpfsI

[Rob2Hook]

... on a Hohner four-stop-one-row in G, sounding fairly throaty.

Wow, quite an adventure in G!  I particularly like the set of matching pegs - I used to have a C box with plastic pipe caps slit and slipped around the stops.  Never did that on the G as I often closed them to lighten the load.  Two reps of that tune a day and you can cancel your gym membership!

Rob

[Lester]

Osborne's Mistake.  A tune I wrote for TOTM a while back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KMxLIpfsI

Do you have it writ down somewhere?

[Clive Williams]

Thanks folks - end of the month and onto the next theme! As ever, please feel free to stick any late editions on the end!

[Psuggmog Volbenz]

Today I played the tune, Ebb and Flow, in context on a thrift store find toy melodeon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UuCeXiMQCo

I know this tune has been played and posted on Melnet before, but not for this theme.