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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Can’t believe I’ve not recorded this one; it’s a tune I’ve been playing ever since I started playing for morris a *long* time ago. Here I’m playing it, more or less straight down the line, on a G/C Albrecht Liliput, so it’s coming out in C.
Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for July 2024
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Tune of the month for October 2023 at melodeon.net, a traditional English tune that comes from a 1750’s tune book. It’s a march, but I’m hornpiping it a bit here.
Played on a Hohner Liliput in G/C, converted and rebuilt by Kay Albrecht.
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Catching up on last month’s melodeon.net tune of the month, this is a fun little tune. I’ve reworked it slightly to make it fit on the instrument – a 3rd button start G/C Albrecht Liliput, and you’d need a full octave down to low C to make this work as written, which I don’t have, so a small phrase is played an octave up.
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A re-run of this melodeon.net tune of the month from 2011. 11 years on, I wonder if I play it any differently? This time I’m on a G/C Albrecht Liliput – a gorgeous little box that excels at this sort of stuff.
Traditional french apparently, discovered (rather than written as I previously thought) by Fred Paris.
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This is the melodeon.net tune of the month for May 2022, a great tune written by Mats Eden. Played on a G/C Albrecht Hohner Liliput conversion – it comes out in C.
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By my reckoning, this is the 4th time I’ve done Speed the Plough in some form or another on this channel. This time, it’s reworked as a waltz, but in a pentatonic scale, so changing the tune to avoid all uses of the 4th and 7th notes in the scale. Melodeon.net’s theme of the month for January 2022.
Played on a Kay Albrecht Lilliput conversion in G/C.
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This month’s tune of the month at melodeon.net, Machynlleth – a Welsh 4 part polka. Fairly straightforward to play; my biggest problem with learning this one was confusing the 2nd and 4th parts.
Played on a G/C Kay Albrecht converted Hohner Liliput.
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Melodeon.net tune of the month for January 2020 is this french waltz written by Jean-Christophe Lequerre. Sits quite nicely on a 2 row 8 bass instrument – in this case a Hohner Liliput conversion in G/C.
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Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for Dec 2019 is this classic 32 bar jig; always a favourite of mine. Here played in C on a G/C Hohner Liliput converted by Kay Albrecht.
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