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Grape Ape

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Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« on: December 31, 2016, 03:33:02 AM »

1) What was you favorite (melodeon related) song/ artist discovery of the year?
2) What is your favorite song that you learned to play this year?
3) What is your greatest achievement in terms of appeasing Madness this year? (i.e. greatest Melodeon
Acquisition of the Year)
4) What song/s do you aspire to learn in 2017?
5) And lastly, what is the coolest thing you learned or saw this year (again as related to melodeons).


HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!  I really appreciate this group!
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2016, 07:12:39 AM »

1) Ben Averis' version of Orange in Bloom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Ifh6ew4jI)
2) O Come, O Come Emmanuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjXvDcIUXoE
3) Handry 2000-18
4) The Northern Lass - the version from Banquet of Boxes - finally should be possible now I have an F-chord
5) I saw John Spiers live at FolkEast - super show on a great variety of boxes. 
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2016, 08:11:42 AM »

1) Julian Sutton
2) The Tannerman
3) 2.5 row Dony
4) Stoney Steps (yeah, right cos that's not too tricky!)
5) Julian Sutton at the tutors concert at Witney.
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2016, 09:36:32 AM »

nothing outstanding to report so happy new year to one and all!


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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2016, 10:30:07 AM »

1) Sophie Cavez
2) Le Lac de St Croix - Pascal Rubens
3) C/F/Acc Handry 18
4) Any that I fancy and am capable of playing haha
5) Fully chromatic bass runs following a tutor lesson with Saul Rose at the National Youth Folk Ensemble
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2016, 12:15:57 PM »

1. The annual Scandi Squeeze-in. Every April, near Lund  (:)
2. Harry Robertson's Ballina Whalers aka 'Humpback Whale' (a 20 year project)
3. Posting my Lily off to Sweden as a  long term loan to a promising young player
4. Ravel's Bolero ... in original key of C if possible
5. The maj7#13 chord  8)  Flash? No  NO:  it's simply eg Em9 inverted, on C bass.
     So on a D/G:  pull C bass, playing F#*,G, B in upper octave
      F#* = on inner row   It's "the sound of tears"  :'(
       Same chord against E>D>C bass run also very cool ...

Stoney Steps is still on my too hard list


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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2016, 01:54:48 PM »

Chris, I'm not sure I see the point of learning Bolero which really was an orchestration exercise so playing it on one instrument will lack both that variety and miss out on the side drum ostinato. Though I understand why you would enjoy the tune.
EDIT: Sorry, Chris - that looks all wrong, the way I've worded it. I'll should have started with the fact that it is an instantly recognisable tune for people of our generation. I would be wary of playing it in sessions as all the spoon players will join in.

My main challenge this year will to become bilingual  (GC and DG.). I would also plump for Sophie Cavez and Julian Sutton for numbers 1 and 6. I would like to play Amelie well and from memory.
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2016, 02:34:42 PM »

1) Brass Monkey
2) From Night Til Morn
3) Hohner Liliput Bb/Eb
4) Elle by Remi Geffroy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGaSLRQFofY)
5) I'm never too old to learn.
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2016, 03:33:58 PM »

1) Uhhh... that's a tricky one, as the tunes I learn are actually rarely from melodeon players. But I did see Brian Peters live for the first time, at Whitby, so that was something.
2) I'm happy to say I have learned a duet with my guitar-playing friend singing 'Little Talks' by Of Monsters and Men, I'm rather proud of my melodeon accompniment.
3) Sadly, I am but poor, no more melodeons, but I got a rather nice melodeon repair kit for Christmas.
4) A couple more pop-ish songs, perhaps Oceans by Hillsong United and Honeybee by Steam Powered Giraffe.
5) That'll be when I taped up the thirds of my pokerwork and found out what I could do without them.
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2016, 03:53:11 PM »

Hi Grape Ape
I don't have any answers to your 5 questions but I have set myself a target for 2017. That is to start playing in public, rather than just in the privacy of my own home. The idea being to build confidence and therefore, hopefully, improve. Scary!
A very Happy New Year to everyone on this site - good luck, good health and good music  :|glug
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2016, 04:04:17 PM »

1.Andy Cutting's version of Polka Chinois on 'Lisa'.                                     
     .2. Polka Chinois (almost).         
3. Buying the giant Herfeld 6 stopper from Theo. Makes playing 114G a job for wimps in comparison
4. Foul Weather Call, but the way Pikey plays it.
5. There is nothing cool about a melodeon thank God..
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2016, 07:07:49 PM »

1. Stefan Delicq (how did I miss him for so long?)
2. Nadiejda (still work-in-progress)
3. Lovely D/G Casta Lilly at a bargain price on eBay.
4. More dance music from over La Manche, e.g. schottishes and mazurkas, esp. Delicq.
5. I'll also put in a double vote for Julian Sutton at Witney - both his 'challenging' workshop and his stunning concert playing.
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2016, 08:19:47 PM »

1. The band Zef
2. The Ludlows, music from the film Legends of the fall which I rearranged to remove a 4/4 part
3. A special order BC Erica from Mike Rowbotham with 12 basses, swing tuned
4. More reels, better played
5. Videos of Remco Seitsema
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2017, 11:17:57 AM »

1) What was you favorite (melodeon related) song/ artist discovery of the year?

Sally Sloane. Studying her recorded tunes led me to appreciate her music and many other Australian traditional players.
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2) What is your favorite song that you learned to play this year?
Too hard to single out one in particular
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3) What is your greatest achievement in terms of appeasing Madness this year? (i.e. greatest Melodeon
Acquisition of the Year)
Buying a batch of nine melodeons (none of which I needed) in one go rates as a pretty good bout of MADness! Thanks Ray :)
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4) What song/s do you aspire to learn in 2017?
It's a long list and constantly being added to.
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5) And lastly, what is the coolest thing you learned or saw this year (again as related to melodeons).
Experiencing the energy and exuberance of David Munnelly's box playing (including one row melodeon) at close quarters was pretty memorable.
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2017, 03:11:07 PM »

1) Green Loch, by Gary Coupland.
2) Probably 'Crazy', but not on a box.  On a box, definitely the last answer, followed by Eleanor Plunkett.
3) MAD doesn't happen if you appreciate your own instruments fully, I'm afraid.  I just find that my own instruments are optimal for what I'm trying to play, so I don't actually aspire to any others.
4) I want to learn 'Riverman' by Nick Drake.  Again, not yet on a box, but who knows?
5) I suppose, learning to try to play in the key of Dm seriously on a DGAcc box.  This may not work too well, but it is a new direction for me.  I'm afraid I haven't seen many other box players playing this year, but Paul McCann of Essex is pretty cool!
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2017, 10:20:22 AM »

Drake's Riverman (also Fruit Tree) is really trickily timed - guitar video link :o -  I've never managed to get anywhere near either  ::)  Good luck

Be encouraged wrt D minor. Lovely soft key and you get useful bass support if you can take those 5th out.
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Re: Happy New Year to All Questionaire!
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2017, 08:03:16 PM »

Late to the party but 1) What was you favorite (melodeon related) song/ artist discovery of the year? i.e. 2016
Smiley's rendition of Baby Elephant Walk. That and Owen Woods' playing of, and the sound of, his Impiliput thingy.

2) What is your favorite song that you learned to play this year?
Hard to pick one. Let's say Flatworld because I hadn't tried it in Em until I read that AC composed it in that key and it just falls off a C#/D box in Em. My pianist son has latched onto it and we enjoy playing it, and with it. We also had fun with Duke Ellington's Satin Doll that he did with his school band: I found I could play the sax parts, some with harmony, on my A/A# machine.

3) What is your greatest achievement in terms of appeasing Madness this year?
I didn't acquire a single instrument. That's two years in a row - prior to 2015, never managed that!

4) What song/s do you aspire to learn in 2017?
Don't do songs, but many tunes will no doubt beg to be massacred. Vague resolution to get better at playing in Dm and Gm in 2017.

5) And lastly, what is the coolest thing you learned or saw this year (again as related to melodeons).
Do "cool" and "melodeon" belong in the same sentence? Maybe Briggs' carbon-fibre box, or one of Kay Albrecht's creations.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!  I really appreciate this group!
Likewise. All the best.  :|glug
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