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Gary P Chapin

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An Interview With Frederic Paris
« on: September 14, 2011, 01:02:24 AM »

http://accordeonaire.blogspot.com/2011/09/questions-for-frederic-paris.html

Thanks.  Very very happy to be able to have done this.

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Re: An Interview With Frederic Paris
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2011, 02:40:48 AM »

Wow, that's terrific, Gary. Should make very nice bedtime reading (which is just about my only time to read, lately).  ;D

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Re: An Interview With Frederic Paris
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2011, 04:45:07 PM »

Very interesting what he says about left hand for bourrees. Now if I can just sort out how to do it .......  :Ph
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Re: An Interview With Frederic Paris
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2011, 04:49:27 PM »

Very interesting what he says about left hand for bourrees. Now if I can just sort out how to do it .......  :Ph

Yeah, like the interview, especially th part on "hw to play" :-)
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Re: An Interview With Frederic Paris
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2011, 12:52:31 AM »

I loved the interview Gary! (actually I love your blog  (:))
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Re: An Interview With Frederic Paris
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2011, 12:54:41 AM »

This is great, Gary!
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Re: An Interview With Frederic Paris
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2011, 02:20:27 AM »

Thanks so much, folks.
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Re: An Interview With Frederic Paris
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2011, 07:31:39 AM »

Fred has always said that 'bourrée on accordion is difficult'.  He's one of the people who achieve it, and I think that was by 'simplicity' on the left end (we got a teach in once at Bal de Bath).  That's how I read what he says in Gary's interview comment too. Fred's whole style is naturally very right ended  - in 'Chasse de la Bécasse' he often has two counter melodies going there!  

Accordion is neither his first, or second instrument  >:E  thought ... was interested therefore that he's a fellow MAD sufferer!


[re below] Accordion ain't Blanchard's first instrument either. Jean is famous for bagpiping and was a big, big  tune writer in the 80's. Also the "Quintette de Cornemuses" and a commando "Grande Bande des Cornemuses" - who (legend has it) abseiled down the walls of St Chartier castle, one warm July festival night.  See also http://www.cornemuses.fr/
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Re: An Interview With Frederic Paris
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2011, 05:40:03 PM »

Some of the things I found most interesting:

1)  His take on playing bourrées.  This is something of a quest for me, and his explanation added great clarity to what I've heard and read.

2)  The idea that he went through a process of adapting the repertoires of different instruments to the diatonic.  It feels like, before Perrone and Blanchard, maybe there was no tradition of diato playing in France -- or it had passed away in favor of the CBA.  It's actually a fairly new thing ... though it's approaching an ancient repertoire.  I'm not saying no one played diato, I'm just saying there was a movement that began somewhat recently.

3)  The modern/traditional dynamic.  The duet with Chabenat and "Carnet de Bal" are pretty far apart.  When he added bass and cittern (a rhythm section) to La Chavanée, they very suddenly sounded more modern.  I wish I had asked about this.

4)  His specific preference for 2-row-8-bass, and his reasons.  I feel the same way. 
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