An Index of Clive Williams' Melodeon Videos from YouTube
This cracking tune is a Bruno le Tron composition. I used to play it many, many years ago with GIG CB! – can I still remember it? Well, kind of. Here we go! We used to use this for a Rondeau – it’s a 4 part jig, with an odd little bridge between the 2nd and 3rd parts.
Played for melodeon.net’s ongoing ‘Alphabet Soup’ theme – now we’re on letter V.
Comments closedA #TunesdayTuesday contribution; I’m playing this on a 7 key Hero toy melodeon in C. You can pick these things up in toy shops for about £20 or so.
Comments closedA Tunesday Tuesday tune.
Played in Bb on a Bb/Eb Hohner Preciosa
Comments closedOK folks, what’s this called? I’ve known it “all my life” and when I pick a melodeon up, and press a few keys on the pull, this comes out. It just plays so naturally. I think it’s probably a Breton song or intro to a gavotte, or similar, but I have no idea beyond that. Any ideas?
Played on a D/G Castagnari Mory.
Comments closedA lovely tune from Leveret’s latest album (as of May 2023), Forms. A traditional tune, and listed as ‘unknown waltz’ such in whichever manuscript Leveret found it from, rather than a tune I simply don’t know the name of. Also recorded by Sam Sweeney, in a rather more ornate form, by Sam Sweeney on his wonderful Solo EP.
Melodeon.net, theme of the month for May 2023, ‘Tunes that start with U’.
Played on a Hohner Preciosa Bb/Eb, in Eb.
Comments closedAn alternative version of melodeon.net’s tune of the month for May 2023. Also played in D on a D/G Castagnari Mory, this is a slower take.
You can find the faster version here: https://youtu.be/L-nlNWvd41A
Comments closedA straight down the line, session speed, version of the Gloucestershire Hornpipe, played in D on a D/G on a Castagnari Mory.
You can find a more sedate alternative version here. https://youtu.be/lTqrg9RE2CU
Melodeon.net tune of the month for May 2023.
Comments closed2 3/8 bourrees, which I played for many years with GIG CB!, and indeed they’re the opening track on the first GIG CB! album. Une Oie, Deux Oies is by french musician Jean Blanchard; I learned the 2nd one off Marc Perrone many years ago, but don’t know the name. Hence the name.
Played on a Hohner Preciosa in Bb/Eb.
Comments closedA straight take on this tune, played on a D/G Saltarelle L’Elfique. Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for April 2023.
Comments closedA great tune written by Pascale Rubens of Naragonia, which is in 3 time, but used to teach how many different styles of 3 time tune are possible in addition to the waltz. This version isn’t a waltz, isn’t quite a bourree, and is more of a slow march.
Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for March 2023, played on a Van der Aa Compact III in G/C.
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