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Re: Tune of the Month for October 2010 - Canal in October / Le Canal en Octobre
« Reply #120 on: November 01, 2010, 10:56:12 PM »

Thanks for the comments, all.



A masterwork! Thunderous applause from this end! (Where's the applause emoticon??)

                       
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Re: Tune of the Month for October 2010 - Canal in October / Le Canal en Octobre
« Reply #121 on: November 10, 2010, 09:54:30 AM »

Canal en octobre
http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=33169

This was recorded 'live' yesterday by me and Susi hence the background noise.

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Re: Tune of the Month for October 2010 - Canal in October / Le Canal en Octobre
« Reply #122 on: December 07, 2010, 06:01:48 PM »

Clive, I hope you'll allow an impertinent question from a brand new member. I loved your playing of Une Autre Fois and Canal in October. I knew the second tune but not the first and I read a number of the comments on it. I think I'm right in saying that you say it's in parts of 7 bars. When I listen to your fab version (and DtN's), assuming the parts are AAB, I can only count 6 bars in the B part. When I've looked at the ABC that someone kindly posted and listen to Frederic P playing, I can definitely detect 7 in both parts. Feel free to tell me it's coz I've got cloth ears! ???
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Re: Tune of the Month for October 2010 - Canal in October / Le Canal en Octobre
« Reply #123 on: December 08, 2010, 02:56:31 PM »

Clive, I hope you'll allow an impertinent question from a brand new member. I loved your playing of Une Autre Fois and Canal in October. I knew the second tune but not the first and I read a number of the comments on it. I think I'm right in saying that you say it's in parts of 7 bars. When I listen to your fab version (and DtN's), assuming the parts are AAB, I can only count 6 bars in the B part. When I've looked at the ABC that someone kindly posted and listen to Frederic P playing, I can definitely detect 7 in both parts. Feel free to tell me it's coz I've got cloth ears! ???

I think I've probably just misremembered it! When I count it through in my head I get 7 bars for the first A 6 bars for the second A and 7 bars for the B music, so somethings not right! I must listen to the original again!

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OK - I know I'm seven month late in posting this, but just got around to learning it this morning  ;D

Canal In October.
Link Deleted.....new version uploaded...see below.

Alan  :||:
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I wasn't happy with the first version as I'd only just learned the tune about an hour before  :-[

Anyway - I have re-recorded the melodeon and cleaned the guitar bit up and added a bit of reverb. Shot a video too on the local canal which is about ten minuted stroll away from the house. The video is in 1080 HD if your broadband is fast enough.. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqWeTwjnOqQ

It's still a slow version with full use of the bass side..I hope someone fancies a go at it at the slower speed.

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Anyway - I have re-recorded the melodeon and cleaned the guitar bit up and added a bit of reverb. Shot a video too on the local canal which is about ten minuted stroll away from the house. The video is in 1080 HD if your broadband is fast enough.. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqWeTwjnOqQ
It's still a slow version with full use of the bass side..I hope someone fancies a go at it at the slower speed.
Alan, that is really lovely, thank you.
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A very restful interpretation, Alan, augmented by a lovely video. It has put me into a mellow mood, so I shall go and play some suitably gentle tunes, starting with Valse du Vent, even if it didn't win the Tune of the Month poll.
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Showing your sentimental side, Alan.  I mean ... ducks! 

That's lovely.  Love the tune.  Love your playing.
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Showing your sentimental side, Alan.  I mean ... ducks! 

That's lovely.  Love the tune.  Love your playing.

Baby ducks too Gary, and moorhens (the black ones)....well - they were there so I videoed 'em. Pity no narrowboats though....

Thanks for the lovely comments.. :|bl
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Very nice rendering, Mr. Almo. I like the slow peaceful quality of it. I think you have captured the essence of this tune perfectly. Thanks!  ;D
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A very restful interpretation, Alan, augmented by a lovely video. It has put me into a mellow mood, so I shall go and play some suitably gentle tunes

Indeed - sometimes a new 'view ' on a tune completely changes it's feel and Alan has produced a fine example   See it's the  Huddersfield Narrow Canal bi-centenary this year - Nora Batey would have been reet proud, had she survived.
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I tried to do this with my "La Roulante," a gentler touch, a slower (non-polka) pace, but I don't think it really worked ... I didn't have ducks.
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A very restful interpretation, Alan, augmented by a lovely video. It has put me into a mellow mood, so I shall go and play some suitably gentle tunes

Indeed - sometimes a new 'view ' on a tune completely changes it's feel and Alan has produced a fine example   See it's the  Huddersfield Narrow Canal bi-centenary this year - Nora Batey would have been reet proud, had she survived.

Sorry - I first read that as 'Nora Batty' - I had a 'Last of The Summer Wine' moment

Thanks for the nice comment

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I can play this really well on my fiddle, it's a very fiddle-friendly tune, quite simple. Just drifting through this thread this morning (either that or get into the ironing........you know which one is going to win.) and I thought - have a go on melodeon...I watched the first one by the French guy with all the buttons and great facial expressions and wondered if my DG would play it  ( my current concern on another thread) and found the notes by crossing the rows. Then listen to some more postings and found I was actually playing the same notes as most people so phew , sigh of relief. Haven't got to grips with the basses yet - in fact making a complete hash of them. But I do think I will soon be playing this ...after a fashion. If I can manage to figure out how to upload it I will.Thanks to everyone who posts these tunes, what a brill facility!
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Lovely Alan.  A total re take on Canal in October now renamed Erewash Canal in June  ;D
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Lovely Alan.  A total re take on Canal in October now renamed Erewash Canal in June  ;D

Thanks Martin,
Thanks for the comment.

Just as a quick story.
There are two canals here within about ten minutes walk of each other - the Erewash Canal in the valley, and the disused Nottingham Canal which runs across a ridge. Because the canals were cut into the ground by navvies (navigators) one canal was always knows at the 'bottom cut' and the other as 'top cut'.

When I had a kitchen studio in Ilkeston, there was a DIY shop next door and the owner told me that when the canals were being dug - his shop used to be a 'doss house' where the navvies used to doss down and sleep.

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There are two canals here within about ten minutes walk of each other - the Erewash Canal in the valley, and the disused Nottingham Canal which runs across a ridge. Because the canals were cut into the ground by navvies (navigators) one canal was always knows at the 'bottom cut' and the other as 'top cut'.

When I had a kitchen studio in Ilkeston, there was a DIY shop next door and the owner told me that when the canals were being dug - his shop used to be a 'doss house' where the navvies used to doss down and sleep.
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I'm only 9 months late with my effort for this TOTM. Here's Une Autre Fois which I first heard through this thread soon after I joined the forum, Ganivelle and Canal in October. Played on Saltarelle Pastourelle III.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4CX8QyjeRE
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I'm only 9 months late with my effort for this TOTM. Here's Une Autre Fois which I first heard through this thread soon after I joined the forum, Ganivelle and Canal in October. Played on Saltarelle Pastourelle III.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4CX8QyjeRE
Dosen't seem to run on YouTube... :(
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