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 closedWhat 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.
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 closedAndy 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.
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 closed2 ‘old school’ french polkas, played for melodeon.net’s theme of the month ‘old tunes’. As far as I know, they’re unnamed Auvergne polkas; picked up from the Nigel Eaton and Andy Cutting recording ‘Panic at the Cafe’. I’ve heard them a few times in different places, sometimes in G and referred to as ‘the G Polkas’, but here I’m playing them on a G/C Hohner Liliput, and they come out in C.
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