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Category: A/D

North Downs Way

Melodeon.net’s tune for April 2024 is this cracker written by Chris Wood. I’m playing this on a Castagnari Lilly in A/D on the inside row, so we’re in D here.

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Cathleen Hehir’s

Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for November 2023 is this Irish 4 part slide.

Played on a Castagnari Lilly in A/D, on the inside row, so in D.

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Zakynthos Jig

Here’s Roger Wilson’s 48 bar jig, played on an a Castagnari Lilly in A/D (so in B minor I think). Lovely tune, written by one of my favourite musicians, and quite hard to fit on a 2 row 8 bass box.

Played for Melodeon.net’s theme of the month for November 2023.

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Thirty Two

Melodeon.net’s theme of the month is numbers – tunes with numbers in the name. So here’s Larry Unger’s wonderful waltz ‘Thirty Two’, which appears on his album ‘Waltz Time’ with Ginny Snowe.

I’m playing this on an 1980’s Castagnari Lilly in A/D, so the tune itself is in B minor.

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Trumpet Tune and Air (Purcell)

Melodeon.net’s theme of the month is tunes that didn’t win a previous tune of the month poll. There’s some great tunes amongst that lot, including this which I learned off my mate Alan Day who plays a terrific concertina version. I’m playing this on an A/D Castagnari Lilly, in D.

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May Reel

A Paul Sartin composition, learned at least 3rd hand via Jim Sawyer and Anahata, is this rather fantastic tune. Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for June 2018. Played on a Castagnari Lilly in A/D (so we’re in A here).

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Floating from Skerry

This tune was written by Lynn Tocker, a fine piano accordion player from Northumberland. A search of youtube should find her version… which is better than this one 🙂 Played as part of melodeon.net’s theme of the month for January 2017. “Nautical tunes” on a A/D Castagnari Lilly

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Rue de Pres

OK, and we’re back. Stephane Durand’s famous schottische – melodeon.net’s tune of the month for January 2017. Played on a Castagnari Lilly in A/D (in D).

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The Sweetness of Mary

Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for Nov 2016, Joan MacDonald Boes’s strathspey, here played in D on an A/D 1980’s vintage Castagnari Lilly.

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Blaydon Races played on multiple melodeons

Theme of the month for melodeon.net September 2014; play one tune on all your melodeons – so here we go:

Hohner 12 Bass G/C
Castagnari Lilly A/D
Robert Boutet one row in D
Hohner Preciosa 12 Bass in Bb/Eb
Hohner Club Modell 1 in C/F
Hohner Pokerwork in D/G
Castagnari Mory in D/G
Hohner Lucia in D/G/Accs
Castagnari Giasco I in D/G
Hohner 1 Row in G
Streb Electronic Melodeon in this case in Eb/Ab/Accs
“The Big Finish!” – Castagnari Magica CBA

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