An Index of Clive Williams' Melodeon Videos from YouTube
My contribution to melodeon.net’s theme of the month tune for February 2025; a minor key version of one of those morris tunes that comes up in many, many different versions depending on which dance team you’re listening to. I learned this off the recent Boss Morris album, though I’m not trying to be compliant with their version of the dance.
Played on a Castagnari Giasco I in D/G.
Comments closedNorbert Pignol’s amazing schottische from his band Dedale. Can’t pretend to get close to Norbert’s level of skill, improvisation, or indeed that little extra little tune that goes on the end of course, but then who can?
Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for February 2025, played on a (more or less) standard Hohner Pokerwork in D/G.
Comments closedPhil Cunningham’s waltz is melodeon.net’s tune of the month for January 2025 – a lovely slow waltz. I’ve played it before on electronic melodeon, but here it is again, in G on a D/G Castagnari Giasco 1.
Comments closedHelena Torpy’s beautiful waltz, which I’ve known for ages but not played before. Here, it’s simply played on a Castagnari Giasco 1 in D – it suits the instrument very well.
Played largely from memory, so let’s view this as an interpretation, rather than a 100% accurate version!
We’re running through the alphabet again at melodeon.net’s theme of the month, so we’re starting at the beginning – tunes that start with A.
Comments closedMelodeon.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.
Comments closedA 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.
Comments closedA 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.
Comments closedHere’s melodeon.net’s tune of the month for August 2024, the Staffordshire Hornpipe. Played on a Hohner Pokerwork in D/G.
Comments closedMy effort for melodeon.net’s theme of the month for August 2024, this is Cyrille Brotto’s lovely mazurka, Nina. I’ve transposed it to Em and played it on a D/G Castagnari Giasco I.
Comments closedHere’s a local tune for melodeon.net’s theme of the month for May 2024, tunes from your country. This was written by a chap who lives about 10 mins walk from me, Phil Underwood, for his wife-to-be, Denise Dryburgh. Lovely tune, isn’t it?
Played on a Castagnari Giasco I in D/G.
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