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The rise of D/G (and the fall of "English Chromatic" C/C#) since 1949
Thrupenny Bit:
I'm sure I read somewhere Stephane Delincq played a DG but the G was an octave down.... or have I dreamt it?
triskel:
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--- Quote from: triskel on October 10, 2016, 02:04:31 AM ---I've been told that D/G (in English music) originated with a couple of dance players on Dartmoor in the 1940s, who got their Club Model C/F accordions (which were themselves a new introduction in the 1930s) converted to play in D/G,...
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I'm wondering how these conversions were made. Were there many fettlers around in those days?
Did the boxes go back to the supplier or the factory? Were reeds retuned or replaced I wonder
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I think I've now identified a very possible candidate for the converting of those two Club Models.
There was a long-standing concertina and chromatic melodeon dealer and repairer named James A. Travers in Bridgwater, Somerset, who was born about 1890 and died at Taunton in the last quarter of 1952.
Winston Smith:
How lovely to see a posting with your name on, hope that you're well?
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