An Index of Clive Williams' Melodeon Videos from YouTube
Well, I like this tune. It made tune of the month after we all saw a lovely take on it by Roland Carson, so I’ve learned it up, and here we are. It seems to sit on this box, a Castagnari Giasco I in D/G just beautifully – like it was made for this tune. It’s an O’Carolan air of course.
Melodeon.net tune of the month for June 2017
Comments closed2 fantastic tunes written by Huw Williams (no relation!) and played as a showstopping set in the middle of Huw and Tony Williams’ gigs. Huw would lament how he’d right all these fantastic songs – he’s an outstanding songwriter, singer and guitarist – then people would come up and go ‘play the melodeon one mate’ … and this is it. Freakishly inventive and really quite tricky… talented, talented chap is old Huw. Played on a Hohner pokerwork in D/G, which you pretty much have to, because of how the accidentals work.
Melodeon.net’s theme of the month for June 2017 is ‘animals’. Didn’t say it had to be either non-extinct or non-fictional animals!
Comments closedA lovely waltz written by Philippe Prieur; part of melodeon.net’s theme of the month for May 2017, Colours – white stretching the point a bit I suppose. Played in G on a Kay Albrecht’ converted G/C Lilliput.
Comments closedRodney Miller’s waltz, here slowed down and played in the Vivant style. Played in G on a D/G Castagnari Mory; Melodeon.net’s tune of the month for May 2017.
Comments closedA rather lovely traditional tune from northern England, and a true session classic. Here played in Bb, and then Eb, on a Bb/Eb Hohner Preciosa.
Tune of the month for April 2017 at melodeon.net
Comments closedIf ever there was a Milton Keynes folk tune, this is it. Written by Pete Lockwood of the Cock and Bull band, and here played in G on a G/C Hohner Lilliput conversion by Kay Albrecht. If you meet this in a session, which you surely will around Milton Keynes, you’ll find it in D where it fits on a D/G melodeon nicely.
Melodeon.net’s theme of the month for April 2017, Tunes from your Local Session
Comments closed2 french marches written by Gilles Chabenat, and popularised in the UK at least by Chris Wood and Andy Cutting in the … 1990’s. My word, is it really that long ago? They both fit beautifully on a melodeon. Played on a Hohner Bb/Eb Preciosa, and mostly in Eb. Part of melodeon.net’s theme of the month for March 2017, er, Marches.
Comments closedAnother take on this tune, played on a Bb/Eb Hohner Preciosa (so we’re in Bb). Cracking reel written by Dave Whetstone of Albion Band and Cock and Bull Band fame. Melodeon.net tune of the month for March 2017…
Comments closedThis month’s melodeon.net tune of the month; The South Wind, a 1700’s Irish trad tune. Played on a Castagnari Mory in D/G
Comments closedThis beautiful tune comes from the playing of the Nordic Fiddlers Bloc – and others I’m sure. Traditional Swedish, part of Melodeon.net’s theme of the month for February 2017. Played on a Castagnari Mory in D/G
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