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Tamba

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The Repair Shop BBC 2
« on: March 27, 2017, 06:44:11 PM »

Roger Thomas, is there something you would like to tell us? Congratulations.
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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2017, 07:39:12 AM »

Yes folks. That is me on the first episode. If you are in the UK you can see it on the iPlayer.

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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2017, 08:03:01 AM »

''Twas very good he's a natural.
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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2017, 08:42:47 AM »

...and despite it being a repair on an old PA you managed to give us a tune on a melodeon, did you see how the faces of the people in the workshop lit up when you started playing!? Respect to you!
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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2017, 09:24:50 AM »

B natural Roger. 
Yes, a smashing programme, not being a telly watcher, it had passed me by.
The boy done well!

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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2017, 12:42:00 PM »

Any chance of a link to the iplayer version?
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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2017, 12:43:50 PM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08l5bjk/the-repair-shop-series-1-episode-1

But for future reference you just click on the search bar on iPlayer and type in the name of the programme you want and it will find it for you.
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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2017, 05:01:50 PM »

Yes i happened to take that Corona more as a background prop, then they asked me to play it. The PA was a lovely old musette Settimio Soprani which was in remarkable condition. It needed a bit of reed TLC and the keys straightening up. The pallets were a bit leaky and I spent a lot of time sorting them out. The levers were loose on the axle, and when you held the instrument upright the levers sagged a tiny bit. Sadly that Corona was later broken by UPS...but will be revived soon with a replacement RH shell (thanks Theo).

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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2017, 10:51:14 PM »

Just curious ( as an Optometrist) why they an a vision test chart propped up in picture on iPlayer? I would suggest a near-vision test chart would be more useful.
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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2017, 07:51:13 AM »

Very enjoyable - well done Roger.
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Brian Read
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A STREB!!,
2.5 D/G Self made Emmanuel Pariselle, D/G Pokerwork,
and Wolverton Advanced G/D Anglo Concertina and C/G  1937 Wheatstone.
all played "lefty" with mostly an extra air button, except the Concertinas which I play the conventional way round.

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Re: The Repair Shop BBC 2
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2017, 08:20:19 AM »

Yes, I enjoyed it too! .....and appreciate sneaking in a melodeon to show The True Way of Life......  ;)
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