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Tone Dumb Greg

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Got a problem
« on: November 16, 2017, 09:56:39 PM »
Drove down to St Ives this morning and collected my melodeon. Mike Rowbotham has  fettled it with particular attention to the tuning. Now I have a problem. I can't stop playing it, any suggestions on  a cure?
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2017, 10:20:30 PM »
Get Mike to convert it to another key
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2017, 10:23:24 PM »
Hi Greg

many thanks for that .... 'twas great to meet you.

Just a quick word on Greg's box ... if anyone else bumps into a decent-looking '80s Salterelle ... give it a serious look. The the reeds in his Piroulet are simply majestic and set this box apart.

After many years there are few times these days that I feel 'the worm of covetousness' .... But I let him leave with it (:)

cheers Mike R

(Hi Mark - saw your post - it's already in D/G and anyway, a box like this should never be converted. Look out for one!)
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2017, 11:01:32 PM »
That's great to hear-I had this one for a while, but it just didn't work for me, so I passed it on. I'm glad it's gone to someone who will love it! Shows how much I know about reeds....

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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2017, 08:31:31 AM »
Quote from: Guy on November 16, 2017, 11:01:32 PM
That's great to hear-I had this one for a while, but it just didn't work for me, so I passed it on. I'm glad it's gone to someone who will love it! Shows how much I know about reeds....

Cheers,
Guy

It's sounding really sweet, Guy. The layouts gone through a bit of a transformation as well. I think I have it the way I want, now. All I have to do, now, is learn to do it justice when I play it.
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2017, 03:36:55 PM »
Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on November 16, 2017, 09:56:39 PM
Now I have a problem. I can't stop playing it, any suggestions on  a cure?

Yes - get still another box. >:E
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2017, 06:39:31 PM »
Yes, what can I say. In a parallel world (inhabited by me much of the time) some old 1930s PAs have fabulous reeds in 'em. I've just restored a Bertini and the reeds are all hand finished and sound fab-u-Lous darling... (:)
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2017, 08:17:19 PM »
Quote from: RogerT on November 17, 2017, 06:39:31 PM
... some old 1930s PAs have fabulous reeds in 'em. I've just restored a Bertini and the reeds are all hand finished and sound fab-u-Lous darling... (:)

I concur.  I got a little Paolo PA some years back, and that's sung to me so as to cause me to learn the PA proper. The reeds are still singing as beautifully as my bigger, badder PAs.
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2017, 10:30:06 AM »
Mike my suggestion was not to improve  the box but as a means of stopping It being played for a while as requested.
kindest regards
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2017, 07:52:58 PM »
Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on November 16, 2017, 09:56:39 PM
Drove down to St Ives this morning and collected my melodeon. Mike Rowbotham has  fettled it with particular attention to the tuning. Now I have a problem. I can't stop playing it, any suggestions on  a cure?

I think handcuffs would probably work.  A big cable tie would do at a pinch ;)
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2017, 08:36:04 PM »
Yeah OK ...

but that Greg - he's one sly old dog and he'd probably get you to cable-tie him to the Piroulet.

... which would make tuning difficult!

Mike
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2017, 08:41:44 PM »
Quote from: Microbot on November 18, 2017, 08:36:04 PM
Yeah OK ...

but that Greg - he's one sly old dog and he'd probably get you to cable-tie him to the Piroulet.

... which would make tuning difficult!

Mike

 :D :D :D

Got separated from it today. Took the poker work out for a day of morrising. Great day. Ten sides playing for Pudsey at Tavistock.
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2017, 09:04:05 PM »
well done!

 .... there's gotta be a video?!...any chance of a link?
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2017, 09:58:13 AM »
Quote from: Microbot on November 18, 2017, 09:04:05 PM
well done!

 .... there's gotta be a video?!...any chance of a link?

I'm sure there will be many. One of the things about an event like this is everyone tends to be either dancing or playing something. As an experiment , I left my android thingy running during one of our sets. I'm sorting through it now. The camera angles and fields of view are pot luck and the sound was just from the on board mic (I had plans for better sound, but they came to nothing when the pressure to do it now came on :( ) Law of averages says some of it won't be too bad, though.

The format was a series of hourly slots with two sides dancing out together in each slot and a mass dance with the two outgoing and two incoming sides at each change over. I'll see what I can extract from my hour long video.
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2017, 11:30:30 PM »
Quote from: catty on November 17, 2017, 03:36:55 PM
Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on November 16, 2017, 09:56:39 PM
Now I have a problem. I can't stop playing it, any suggestions on  a cure?

Yes - get still another box. >:E

I'll sell you one of my 1040's  >:E
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Re: Got a problem
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2017, 12:13:08 AM »
Quote from: JimmyM on November 20, 2017, 11:30:30 PM
Quote from: catty on November 17, 2017, 03:36:55 PM
Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on November 16, 2017, 09:56:39 PM
Now I have a problem. I can't stop playing it, any suggestions on  a cure?


Yes - get still another box. >:E

I'll sell you one of my 1040's  >:E

I would really like to try one
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Greg Smith
DG/GC Pokerwork, DG 2.4 Saltarelle, pre-war CF Hohner, Hohner 1040 Vienna style, old  BbEb Hohner that needs a lot of work.

ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. Ambrose Bierce
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