Category: Hohner Club Modell I

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.

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.

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.

A tune set that shifts key, melodeon.net’s theme of the month for September 2022. This particular one is an unnamed mazurka uncovered by the Late Night Band and named (by them) after a local pub, Rose and Crown. Not the original name – if you know what it is, please let me know. Blowzabella recorded this as simply ‘A minor mazurka’. I’m playing it on a C/F Hohner, and it goes from D minor to A minor in my version.

Naja’s Waltz comes from the Danish String Quartet, and is written by one of their members, Fredrik Sjölin. A lovely gentle waltz, and as nice as this version is, you should really listen to the Danish String Quartet original.

Played for melodeon.net’s theme of the month for July 2022 on a C/F Hohner Club I, so we’re in D minor.