Andy Cutting’s schottische, melodeon.net’s tune of the month for December 2024. A nice “straightforward” schottische played in D minor on a C/F Hohner Pokerwork. It’s originally in A minor, which you can do on the inside row of a D/G, or on the outside row of a G/C. You also have the choice of playing it in the higher register or lower, here I’m in the lower register. You need a low note (B on a D/G, A on an C/F) to make this work – fortunately I have that on this box – a Hohner Club model 1 in C/F.
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Melodeon.net’s theme of the month, as ever in December, is Christmas and/or Wintry themes. I thought I’d played Christmassy everything by now on this channel… but no, here’s 2 tunes that go together in a fun way. Played on a Hohner Pokerwork in D/G.
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A lovely waltz composed in 1959 by Pat Shuldham-Shaw from Stratford-upon-Avon, and dedicated to Margaret Grant, representative in Devon of the EFDSS on the occasion of her retirement. Often played (by fiddles anyway) in A. but here I’m playing it in G on a (more or less) standard 2 row Hohner D/G pokerwork.
Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for November 2024.
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2 ‘old school’ french polkas, played for melodeon.net’s theme of the month ‘old tunes’. As far as I know, they’re unnamed Auvergne polkas; picked up from the Nigel Eaton and Andy Cutting recording ‘Panic at the Cafe’. I’ve heard them a few times in different places, sometimes in G and referred to as ‘the G Polkas’, but here I’m playing them on a G/C Hohner Liliput, and they come out in C.
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A classic morris tune from the Cotswold traditions, this is melodeon.net’s tune of the month for October 2024.
Played in F on a Hohner Club I in C/F.
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Melodeon.net’s theme of the month for October 2024 is ‘new tunes’ and this kind of fits, being about 30-35 years old or so. I was reminded of this from the Melrose Quartet recording, but it’s written by Simon Heywood who used to play with 90’s Manchester folk dance band, Jabadaw.
Normally in A minor, but here played in F minor on a Bb/Eb Hohner Preciosa.
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Here’s a set of Ronds de Saint Vincent (breton fest noz dance) learned from the 2000(ish) CD from Menestra, ‘Dog of Pride’. No tune names on the album, but I think they’re all relatively recently composed by the band or members of the band. Played on a Hohner Club I in C/F, so we’re in a mix of C and Dm. The 3rd tune should really be in Gm, but I’m missing a chord ot make that work convincingly, so transposed it to Dm.
Melodeon.net’s theme for September 2024, Tunes from Brittany.
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A classic schottische by hurdy gurdy maestro, Cliff Stapleton. He writes some *really* great tunes… this one comes the 1980’s…. so about 40 years old. Gosh. Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for September 2024. Played on a Hohner Club I in C/F, so it comes out in Dm.
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Here’s melodeon.net’s tune of the month for August 2024, the Staffordshire Hornpipe. Played on a Hohner Pokerwork in D/G.
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