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Australoptheous

Australoptheous

Published January 11, 2025

What a great schottische this is! From Helena Torpy and Steve Turner’s album ‘Cosmos’, I’m a big fan of their music. I think this particular tune was written by Steve, but please let me know if I got that wrong. I’m not 100% confident on this yet – I have to fudge the 2nd part a bit because I’m missing a couple of low notes on this box. So this is as far as I’ve got so far.

Part of melodeon.net’s theme of the month for January 2025, tunes with names starting with ‘A’. Played on a Hohner Club in C/F – the tune is in F Mixolydian mode I think, which is the original’s key.

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Flatwater Fran

Flatwater Fran

Published January 11, 2025

Phil 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.

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Attingham Waltz

Attingham Waltz

Published January 11, 2025

Helena 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.

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Valentine

Valentine

Published October 12, 2024

A 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.

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Nina

Nina

Published August 24, 2024

My 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.

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A Minute More Each Day

A Minute More Each Day

Published July 9, 2024

Another Rob Harbron tune, and what a cracker. This is off his solo EP ‘As the Days Begin to Lengthen’ which I just love. All of it. He plays it on English Concertina (and guitar); I’ve tried to make it fit as best I can on melodeon. Played on a Hohner Preciosa in Bb/Eb, so we’re in Bb. Melodeon.net’s theme of the month for July 2024, Tunes from England.

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Miss Denise Dryburgh

Miss Denise Dryburgh

Published May 6, 2024

Here’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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Gaptooth

Gaptooth

Published April 14, 2024

Here’s a fantastic fiddle jig written by Casey Driessen … squeezed as best I can on melodeon. If you like this, listen to Casey’s version to hear how it should be played; there’s only so much I can do on a restricted instrument like a melodeon, and since I’m not Casey. What a musician!

Here played on a Hohner 1920’s box in G/C for melodeon.net’s theme of the month of April 2024, ‘Tunes from USA’

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The Hills of Kaitoke

The Hills of Kaitoke

Published March 24, 2024

A lovely tune written by Catherine Fraser, a scots-style, but Australian, fiddler. The hills are the Rimutaka Ranges that surround YMCA Camp Kaitoke in New Zealand. Learned from the playing of Talisk, who normally play it in E, but I’m playing it in the more session friendly key of D here.

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