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Folkiekay
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(Date Posted:04/10/2007 20:59:04)
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Check outhttp://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AccordeonaireThanks for the indulgence -- and thanks to folkiekay for inspiring me to climb this learning curve,Gary
Hi Gary - how did I help you do that??? Where do you live?
Kay
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Chapin
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(Date Posted:04/10/2007 22:29:52)
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Reply to : ChapinCheck outhttp://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AccordeonaireThanks for the indulgence -- and thanks to folkiekay for inspiring me to climb this learning curve,GaryHi Gary - how did I help you do that??? Where do you live?Kay
Well, I live in Maine, but I'd seen your videos on YouTube and enjoyed them so much (and then the others of the YouBoxTube world) that I made the effort to learn the process. So, yeah, thanks!
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Folkiekay
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(Date Posted:05/10/2007 07:23:37)
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Well, I live in Maine, but I'd seen your videos on YouTube and enjoyed them so much (and then the others of the YouBoxTube world) that I made the effort to learn the process. So, yeah, thanks!
I couldn't check them out at work, so I checked them out tonight.....Excellent! One of my favorites has always been Scottish a Bethanie, and you play it beautifully!
Kay
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Brinwins
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(Date Posted:09/10/2007 22:13:01)
AHHHH! Why is englands traditional key D/G!
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Chapin
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(Date Posted:10/10/2007 04:19:45)
Kay, thanks for the kind words. Brinwins, not sure what you're getting at there -- though I love a non sequitor.
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Brinwins
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(Date Posted:11/10/2007 01:42:52)
yeah, its just... I think that instruments with a lower pitch sound realy nice. All in all sir i am complementing you - Fine playing!
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Chapin
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(Date Posted:12/10/2007 07:21:11)
Well, thank you.
I have thought a lot about the D/G G/C question. I love Brit folk (I like the French stuff more, but still ...) and have worked myself up to a fierce desire to get a D/G box, but then I go try one and I find it startlingly high. One of the problems, though is that I'm using G/C practices and playing tunes conceived for G/C on the D/G. Most French tunes are designed to be played mainly in the upper octave. I think British tunes spend more time around the lower octave. That's my impression, anyway. We could do a scatter plot to see if it's true.
Even in non-accordion realms, though, I agree with you about the lower sounds. Cellos, trombones -- that's where my ear goes.
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Brinwins
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(Date Posted:12/10/2007 13:09:22)
You are correct, I seldom stray to the upper octave in fact i feel natrually drawn to the lowest octave on the d row and find that my favorite place I find even the lower G octave high, I like english scottish and irish songs and now that you mention it the only time I actually use the high octaves is when i play with two fingers each 2 buttons apart - i think this is a cajun thing as i got it of a cajun dvd but i dont realy do that much at all - dosent seem to fit that well with the songs i know.
as it happens Im upgradeing from my first box soon, maybe lower tuneing is the way foreward for me - then id be playing english on a lower instrument. In fact... heres a realy nice example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvW_7LqNaA
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Lester Bailey
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(Date Posted:12/10/2007 15:05:57)
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As it happens I'm upgrading from my first box soon, maybe lower tuning is the way forward for me - then id be playing English on a lower instrument. In fact... here's a really nice example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvW_7LqNaA
Not wishing to be pedantic but the youtube tune is Welsh and called Cadair Idris although it is used for an English morris dance.
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Chapin
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(Date Posted:12/10/2007 16:44:00)
Welsh? English? Is there really a difference? I mean, it's a pretty small island. 
Seriously though ... cough ... I played with a Welsh group for a very brief time while I lived near St. Paul, Minnesota, and found it a very interesting repertoire. For one thing, they had slip jigs (probably borrowed from the Irish, but so what?) I remember a series of hornpipes that were structured AABA (rather than the typical AABB). So that when we practiced, we'd never get the B parts as well as the A because, for every three times we played the A, the B was only played once. That was a serious case of "we've-got-it-well-enough-let's-move-on" not being true. I remember dropping whole bars at the dance we were playing for.
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