Hello, I've not posted in a while- job change, cross-country move, all that.
After deciding a year ago that the G/C system was just
not going to work for me no matter how much time I put into it, I also knew I wanted to learn more Breton tunes to add to my usual repertoire of Irish tunes- and wanted to learn them from players there, rather than from other Irish (or Irish style players) of those tunes. The melodies themselves could be easily adapted in most cases, but not those basses-- which is a large part of the appeal for me.
So I've been trying to work some of those out- sometimes with success, sometimes with.... well, smoking failure.
Since there has not been a fest noz in Alabama since at least Reconstruction, learning from recordings is a fact of life. It's just as well since there are no tabs for playing those tunes on a semi-tone box, and I never could make my peace with tabs anyway.
Here's a tune I worked out a couple of weeks ago (having been on the list for a while, and I never had time to get to it), played on a C#/D Lilly I just received from Theo last week. I'm still getting used to the mechanics, button spacing, and "breathing" of the Lilly but it's a cool little box. Playing long chords on those small bellows is a bit precarious if you're not used to them!
I've no idea of the name of this tune- any help there would be appreciated. It's not the most technical tune in the world, I just like it:
https://youtu.be/ZOHwB68jcGA
