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Who Can Beat This
« on: June 06, 2011, 04:58:11 PM »


This guy says accordions are like women some are nice to play with and others just to look at


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7222543.stm
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Re: Who Can Beat This
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2011, 03:33:46 PM »

I wish I never got that MAD!
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« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2011, 04:27:38 PM »

Did you get to the Caroline Hunt part of that little bit of video too. mory
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« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2011, 05:14:11 PM »

That kind of thing should be illegal.

I'll probably get told off for being a grumpy young git again, but things like the above really annoy me. There is no way that all 800 instruments get played regularly (not that they are all necessarily playable...) and it's such a waste to have them sat around gathering dust because they look nice. Musical instruments are made to be played and enjoyed, not to be sat in some house in Scotland. Chances are he's got some gorgeous instruments in his collection  that could be put to much better use too.
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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2011, 05:30:49 PM »

On the other hand,  he says that most of them are unplayable when he acquires them (which I'm sure is true) and he gets them back in playing condition.  So they spend a few years in his possession and then move on to others.  Sounds OK to me. 
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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2011, 06:02:32 PM »

I agree, its not unlike the vintage & classic car & motorbike  lot. For some the essence of the hobby is in the restoration & for others its the using of.  The latter would have   less choice of steads without the actions of the former!

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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2011, 07:57:16 PM »

Personally he would be better to take a photo of them all individually frame them and hang on wall and then sell the accordions so others can buy, Its impossible to buy at auctions when Dave is in, there was another old guy stayed in Strathkinness near St Andrews he also had hundreds of them and he couldnt play, I waited all day at auction in St andrews to buy a wee Hohner it was rough but could have been done up jings he bid over a odds for it just to get it he was obsessed with them, sadly he is dead now he killed himself as he couldnt cope after his wife died, I dont know what happened to his accordions.
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« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2011, 12:12:57 AM »

I can quite understand the reasons he gives for collecting - no different to MAD.

The most poignant thing for me was the way he referred to going for 'messages' at Tesco.

My dear, long departed mother, who came from Maryhill, later Byres road in Glasgw, would oft ask us as kids to go for the 'messages' at the local shop.

A message was simply a written shopping list, left with the shopkeeper, and we would go later, and pick up the box of groceries.  I haven't heard the word used in this context since the 1960's!!
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Re: Who Can Beat This
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2011, 12:35:23 PM »

"Mr Pullar told the BBC Scotland news website that he has even found a couple of accordions in skips. "

What was that in the "jokes" thread????
« Last Edit: June 20, 2011, 08:53:36 PM by malcolmbebb »
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Re: Who Can Beat This
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2011, 07:12:53 PM »

I'd love to see a picture of the Gold coloured box that once belonged to Jimmy Shand. I once owned a box like that in the 1970s. :-\ :||:
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« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2011, 12:09:10 AM »

I can quite understand the reasons he gives for collecting - no different to MAD.

The most poignant thing for me was the way he referred to going for 'messages' at Tesco.

My dear, long departed mother, who came from Maryhill, later Byres road in Glasgw, would oft ask us as kids to go for the 'messages' at the local shop.

A message was simply a written shopping list, left with the shopkeeper, and we would go later, and pick up the box of groceries.  I haven't heard the word used in this context since the 1960's!!


As a little girl growing up in Liverpool I would 'go the messages' for my mum - just a few odds and ends from the grocers it would be. I've heard of other people 'doing the messages' but have heard neither expression, like you, for many years.
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Re: Who Can Beat This
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2011, 09:12:36 AM »

"The messages"  as a term for food shopping is still in current use in Scotland. I hear it frequently. Only yesterday, in Glasgow's Sunday Herald, a columnist described someone as "clutching two bags of messages from Farmfoods". Said columnist is a Glasgow native and somewhat younger than I am.
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« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2011, 09:47:15 AM »

Ah yes, "messages"!
I was brought up in Northern Ireland and this was a regular term for shopping - not just the list, but activity of shopping (as in "I'm just going to do the messages"), and also the items you bought. Once when my visiting boyfriend (now husband of 40 years) got into the car beside me I said, "Don't sit on the messages!" he had no idea what I meant. I think I stopped saying it after that.
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Re: Who Can Beat This
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2011, 10:04:14 AM »

We still use the term 'messages' amongst our family. It's only reading this thread it's occured to me how it's gone out of fashion somewhat.
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Re: Who Can Beat This
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2011, 02:12:19 PM »

I had never heard of it before, but it's nice ;D
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Re: Who Can Beat This
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2011, 11:35:04 PM »

"Messages" is still curent in Northern Ireland. One of the many new expressions I had to learn from my Co Armagh born wife so I could comprehend her relations / friends. The one that confused me totally at first was the use of 'leaving' to mean taking, as in 'leaving someone home' - meaning to take someone home, or leaving a film into the chemists (in pre-digital days).

Sorry - this thread seems to have to have drifted way off topic.
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« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2011, 07:02:50 AM »

Sorry - this thread seems to have to have drifted way off topic.

To continue the process  >:E
 
I wonder whether it's connected to the earlier English meaning of mess which is to do with food, as in mess deck, officers mess and mess of pottage.
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