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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #80 on: April 19, 2020, 07:19:32 PM »

My choice is quite predictable, I suppose, it had to be by Stephane Delicq! I have recorded it before but here is today's version, complete with one of Stephane's variations.....

https://youtu.be/4jjaS4JOs48

Lovely! Really enjoying listening to people's favourites this month :-)

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #81 on: April 19, 2020, 08:28:04 PM »

Thank you Clive.
I agree that it is good to hear everyone's favourites and so many people are taking part too!
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #82 on: April 19, 2020, 10:48:45 PM »

"Bourree Du Morvan"
This is my favourite tune today! Just came across it on utube a couple of days ago and cannot stop playing it - even got me dancing in the kitchen, too much vin de Cahors perhaps  ;D. No clue as to the name, any help appreciated. Not a fancy tune but does its job perfectly, what more can you ask?
https://soundcloud.com/tuftyabc/bourree-du-morvanwav
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #83 on: April 21, 2020, 11:18:56 AM »

The Sloe, one of my favourite tunes  :D

https://youtu.be/LUWECn4rbVo
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #84 on: April 21, 2020, 11:33:33 AM »

The Sloe, one of my favourite tunes  :D


Oh! I know that tune and play it often  ;D

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #85 on: April 21, 2020, 11:38:15 AM »

The Sloe, one of my favourite tunes  :D

https://youtu.be/LUWECn4rbVo

Can you post an ABC ? I'm struggling to learn your imaginative variation... >:E

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #86 on: April 23, 2020, 08:10:44 AM »

The Wells Waltz

As Baz Parkes said near the beginning of this thread: 'so many to choose from'. But the Wells Waltz is a perennial favourite of mine.

I first learned this tune from the playing of Katie Howson at a Melodeons at Witney workshop in 2005. The tune was adapted by Katie and the Old Hat Concert Party from the dulcimer playing of Mollie Whittaker (1920 - 2004) who lived at Wells-next-the-Sea on the north Norfolk coast. Mollie learned this tune from her father.

That particular Melodeons at Witney workshop proved to be a significant one for me, as it led to a personal discovery of East Anglian traditional music which I hadn't realised existed before then. It was like coming home. It also sparked a fruitful and enjoyable collaboration with Katie and others at the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust to produce the tunebook, 'Before the Night Was Out', published by EATMT in 2007.

Here's the link to the video, played on a one-row four-stop melodeon in G, made on one of Emmanuel Pariselle's melodeon-building courses in Stowmarket.
https://youtu.be/TjZGvg5HYlg
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #87 on: April 23, 2020, 03:05:53 PM »

The Wells Waltz

Here's the link to the video, played on a one-row four-stop melodeon in G, made on one of Emmanuel Pariselle's melodeon-building courses in Stowmarket.
https://youtu.be/TjZGvg5HYlg

Nicely done indeed.
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #88 on: April 23, 2020, 03:51:40 PM »

The Wells Waltz

Here's the link to the video, played on a one-row four-stop melodeon in G, made on one of Emmanuel Pariselle's melodeon-building courses in Stowmarket.
https://youtu.be/TjZGvg5HYlg

Nicely done indeed.
Thanks, Dick  (:)
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #89 on: April 24, 2020, 12:10:37 AM »

This was a favourite from the sessions we used to have on Sunday evenings in pubs around Cambridgeshire, especially the Dyke's End at Reach.

Here's Watson's Hornpipe, which we'd usually play after Serpentiner Och Konfetti. I have fond memories of belting this out at full volume and feeling the world was a better place afterwards.

And since everyone seems to be making multitracked video extravaganzas these days, I thought I'd have a go at doing that too. This was a good evening's work, putting together two Oakwood melodeons and a cello, but unlike some other efforts on YouTube I'm playing them all myself.
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #90 on: April 24, 2020, 12:35:12 AM »

I posted these elsewhere before remembering this thread. Two waltzes I've been playing for 25 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r255VNZbMX8&t=1s
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #91 on: April 24, 2020, 07:13:22 AM »

This was a favourite from the sessions we used to have on Sunday evenings in pubs around Cambridgeshire, especially the Dyke's End at Reach.

Here's Watson's Hornpipe, which we'd usually play after Serpentiner Och Konfetti. I have fond memories of belting this out at full volume and feeling the world was a better place afterwards.

And since everyone seems to be making multitracked video extravaganzas these days, I thought I'd have a go at doing that too. This was a good evening's work, putting together two Oakwood melodeons and a cello, but unlike some other efforts on YouTube I'm playing them all myself.
That was brilliant! Well played, arranged and video-mastered.  (:)
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #92 on: April 24, 2020, 07:43:15 AM »

And since everyone seems to be making multitracked video extravaganzas these days, I thought I'd have a go at doing that too. This was a good evening's work, putting together two Oakwood melodeons and a cello, but unlike some other efforts on YouTube I'm playing them all myself.
Wow! A true celebration for my ears.
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #93 on: April 24, 2020, 08:20:13 AM »

2 Wow! :D :D
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #94 on: April 24, 2020, 09:25:04 AM »

Thank you all!
I hadn't even thought of it at the beginning of the month, but it's a real favourite tune that I wanted to do something special with.
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #95 on: April 24, 2020, 12:10:47 PM »

"Bourree Du Morvan"
This is my favourite tune today! Just came across it on utube a couple of days ago and cannot stop playing it - even got me dancing in the kitchen, too much vin de Cahors perhaps  ;D. No clue as to the name, any help appreciated. Not a fancy tune but does its job perfectly, what more can you ask?
https://soundcloud.com/tuftyabc/bourree-du-morvanwav

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #96 on: April 26, 2020, 10:49:52 AM »

Here's my effort:-
https://soundcloud.com/thrupenny-bit/lal-schottische

It's the Lal Schottishe.
It's taken from William Irwin's manuscript dated 1838, now apparently lost. He was a fiddler from Elterwater in the Lake District.
I've found it in Nick Barber's excellent 'Eighty English Dance Tunes', and has become a favourite of mine.
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #97 on: April 26, 2020, 11:27:13 AM »

.And since everyone seems to be making multitracked video extravaganzas these days, I thought I'd have a go at doing that too. This was a good evening's work, putting together two Oakwood melodeons and a cello, but unlike some other efforts on YouTube I'm playing them all myself.

FABULOSO! Think I’ve played that one with you and Mary somewhere 🤔 Straw Bear? Wales? Canada?

The synchronisation was perfect 😀 and nice video edit “neatly cutting off” the lock in hair do.  But I speak as a fellow 67 year old who … no longer has any tonsorial problem. 😉
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2020: Favourite Tunes
« Reply #98 on: April 26, 2020, 12:25:44 PM »

Thank you. Yes, we could have played it any of those places!
Sync with the aid of headphones and only 1.3ms latency on my studio system.  (:)
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« Reply #99 on: April 26, 2020, 01:02:39 PM »

I've been spending some lockdown time revisiting tunes that I've come across along the way that had a profound impact on my playing and can definitely be described as "Favourite Tunes".  Written by one of my favourite box players, this is Julian Sutton's "The Way To Wylam"

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