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A "melnet" badge / pin to wear at workshops, festivals etc. to help identify if you're on this forum.

Good idea - I'd like one
- 70 (82.4%)
Don't think there's a need
- 15 (17.6%)

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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #40 on: July 22, 2010, 05:08:04 PM »

I love the idea of a pin or badge (or sticker)......though have to admit that I have googled 'where to buy a fez' as well, and rather fancy getting about with a fake beard (although life is catching up with art in my case as I appear to be actually growing one these days!)
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #41 on: July 22, 2010, 05:10:05 PM »

At last, a woman who admits to growing a beard.
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #42 on: July 22, 2010, 05:13:59 PM »

Nasty when it gets caught in the bellows.....
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #43 on: July 22, 2010, 05:18:34 PM »

The hairs are growing on my chin Malcolm, not my chest!!!
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #44 on: July 22, 2010, 05:28:31 PM »

I still say a nice badge and sticker but the badge especially must stand out in a crowd. It's no good me standing a foot away from a morris musician trying to read all his badges while he is trying to keep his dancers going just to ascertain as to whether or not he/she may be a member.
The same in a bar. A man supping his pint of Adnam's Broadside does not want someone staring at his array of badges from close range...very offputting. Even more disconcerting for a woman I would imagine! It needs to be very distinctive and colourful and easily identifiable from a distance.  ::)
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #45 on: July 22, 2010, 05:54:38 PM »

The hairs are growing on my chin Malcolm, not my chest!!!

I was at the Squeezing Shropshire workshop in early July. One of the tutors was a fine old gentleman, steeped in Cajun tradition. His beard was so long he had to throw it over his shoulder when putting on the melodeon (and it got in the way a fair bit when playing the fiddle too!)

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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #46 on: July 22, 2010, 06:00:43 PM »

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It needs to be very distinctive and colourful and easily identifiable from a distance.

agree
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #47 on: July 22, 2010, 06:11:09 PM »

The hairs are growing on my chin Malcolm, not my chest!!!

I was at the Squeezing Shropshire workshop in early July. One of the tutors was a fine old gentleman, steeped in Cajun tradition. His beard was so long he had to throw it over his shoulder when putting on the melodeon (and it got in the way a fair bit when playing the fiddle too!)

 :D

That's Ken Keppeler of Bayou Seco. When he sings Waltzing with Bears, he pushes the beard up over his forehead and then puts his glasses back on to hold the beard in place. It's quite scary.
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #48 on: July 22, 2010, 06:14:19 PM »

Maybe 'he' is actually a woman in her 50's (er..prime!)
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #49 on: July 22, 2010, 07:15:00 PM »

For one reason or another, being recognised doesn't seem to be too much of an issue for me.  However, I have a jacket with a small collection of pin badges on, so a Mel.net one would make a nice addition.
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #50 on: July 22, 2010, 09:12:33 PM »



How about a special melodeon.net beard?

I think we might have trouble getting that past the face scrapers of this parish Rees  ::)

Not that playing in public is something that I'm likely to do any time soon but either a badge or sticker with a squeezebox (make, type, model, customisation, view angle, degree of bellows extension TBA) where MAD is the major component of the bellows is a lovely idea.

I organised the manufacture of a couple of batches of enamelled badges in the 1970's and while the cost per badge was (allowing for inflation) about 3 pints worth at the time, sinking the master die was around the cost of 50 badges, it may be better with the advent of CAD/CAM manufacture but if this goes ahead it is a worthwhile question to ask ! The firm used were R.E.V. Gomm of Birmingham, no chance of finding the original contact details but maybe someone over that way know if they or others are still badging.

I'm surprised that no one has come up with the idea a MAD sorry MELnet bellows pad, since they seem to be like rocking horse droppings.........

If needed I could probably convert an artistic compooter drawing into a CAD drawing

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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #51 on: July 22, 2010, 09:23:02 PM »

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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #52 on: July 22, 2010, 09:30:12 PM »

Gomm badges here:
http://www.shawmunstergroup.co.uk/home.php?page=gomm_badges

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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #53 on: July 22, 2010, 11:54:29 PM »

Prehaps a melodeon, but with MAD for the bellows? I would do a design, but I'm rubbish at drawing on the computer.
If you do it by hand and scan it in...I'll 'redraw' it electronically Ollie.

Apologies for the dodgy paint design, but I've not got a lot of time as I'm off Morrising tomorrow and won't be back till after Sidmouth.
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #54 on: July 23, 2010, 12:07:48 AM »

I like the pin and secret code idea. Sort of like 
being a member of the Turtles....
      
       Q: Are you a Turtle?
       A: _ _ _   _ _ _  _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _  _  _ _ !

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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #55 on: July 23, 2010, 05:35:40 AM »



Um...looks great except the keyboard and basses need flipping?
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #56 on: July 23, 2010, 09:03:05 AM »

wot about including a stubbie holder also?

now there's an idea............   :|glug    :|glug    :|glug
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #57 on: July 23, 2010, 09:05:42 AM »

wot about including a stubbie holder also?

now there's an idea............   :|glug    :|glug    :|glug

six  :|glug hic .... pls   :|glug
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #58 on: July 23, 2010, 09:33:23 AM »

Um...looks great except the keyboard and basses need flipping?

Concur, I think if it could be mellowed somewhat, away from those Spanish football team colours, and flipped as Al suggests, I could wear this :|bl  The 'MAD' concept on the badge seems particularly melnetish 8)

I'd personally favour the design on leather (as per a lot of the morris dance sides) rather than a cheap and nasty round tin thing  It might even be worth doing 2 or 3 alternative colour schemes on the same basic design?

Could I suggest selling a simple £5+SAE per leather badge (makes the posting easy), and perhaps be sold from Theo's business and that we partition any 'profit' between a small melnet contribution and a fair size handling overhead for Theo, in any way our moderator group see fit.

 Britannia Coconutters  do a leather badge at £2, so I think a smaller 'run' at this level might be economic. Would such a scheme work?
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Re: Melnet badge / pin?
« Reply #59 on: July 23, 2010, 09:39:12 AM »

what about the slogan:
M.A.D. as a Melodeon.net Member
or
M.A.D. as a Melodeon Player
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