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Chatterbox => Extraneous exchanges => Topic started by: Al Leonard on April 19, 2013, 09:41:28 PM

Title: English or German, Ric?...
Post by: Al Leonard on April 19, 2013, 09:41:28 PM

...or maybe Anglo?

Title: Re: English or German, Ric?...
Post by: Ric Gillespie on April 20, 2013, 05:27:37 AM

I forget. I think German. Push notes and pull notes are different. As I recall, Anglo is same note, push or pull.  This one was made in Italy.

Title: Re: English or German, Ric?...
Post by: Al Leonard on April 20, 2013, 07:13:10 AM

Quote from: Ric Gillespie on April 20, 2013, 05:27:37 AM

I forget. I think German. Push notes and pull notes are different. As I recall, Anglo is same note, push or pull.  This one was made in Italy.

I tried to learn how to play one for about a week, but I had to stop--I was scaring the neighbors...

Title: Re: English or German, Ric?...
Post by: Ric Gillespie on April 20, 2013, 08:15:42 AM

If you can play a harmonica you can play a concertina. The "blow" notes on a harmonica are the "push" notes on a concertina. The "suck" notes are the "pull" notes.

Title: Re: English or German, Ric?...
Post by: Bill de Creeft on April 21, 2013, 02:24:49 PM

So it's "blow suck blow suck suck suck blow" ?....or opposite?

Title: Re: English or German, Ric?...
Post by: Ric Gillespie on April 21, 2013, 05:52:23 PM

Quote from: Bill de Creeft on April 21, 2013, 02:24:49 PM

So it's "blow suck blow suck suck suck blow" ?....or opposite?

I knew that was coming.

Title: Re: English or German, Ric?...
Post by: Bill de Creeft on April 21, 2013, 06:55:43 PM

Yr. Svt. !

Quiet day above 59 N .....

Title: Re: English or German, Ric?...
Post by: Ric Gillespie on April 22, 2013, 09:06:20 AM

Quote from: J. Nevill on April 22, 2013, 07:51:58 AM

No foul intended to Ric on his sea-going concertina of course, but I believe it was Willie Nelson who once remarked that in music a "perfect pitch was an accordian landing on top of a banjo... in the trash".  :o

To each his own.