Dick: "my opinion....and try and emulate his suggested bowing changes with bellows changes, this is not always possible to do slavishly, but some of it can be incorporated"

RE: I don't see why you call this an opinion...Is it not a selfevident fact that using the bellows in this manner is the most important way to articulate with any squeezebox? Strangely enough the matter of "bellows articulation" has been quite prominent in accordion tuition since 1950s while concertina players today often are completely unaware of it.Still the famous Victorian performers and tutors all speak of the importance using the bellows like a bow and the most fanatic spokesman was Alsepti who also introduced the "bowing valves" for the purpose.

"another idea i like is to take the notes on the left hand side of theEC AND PLAY THEM ONE DIRECTION AND THOSE ON THE RIGHT THE OTHER WAY, in effect this means that half the g scale is one way the other is a different direction, but a lot of arpeggios are same direction, both options will mean you change bellows more frequently than standard EC 2 or 3 bar changes, either way the result will be more lift".

That however seems to be a rather rigid method - since the point ought to be adopting to the music as much as possible to get optimal dynamics and expression

" the is to use the noel hill beginner anglo system[ i mean the way he cross rows]playing a certain amount up the c row and a certain amount up the g row , the high d can be played either push or pull, or a player can copy the bc directions, all of these methods will give more lift".

Playing complex music with the Anglo efficiently is a true challenge.
Single note playing in the trad Irish style offers some options not to run out of air by the said cross row methods. If you wish to play polyphonic music you soon get into trouble however, particularly if trying to harmonize in a regular way since you mostly can't add harmonic chord notes when crossing rows for the melody and get the T,S and D notes in the wrong direction.Maybe one reason that single note playing in the Irish style is so popular among Anglo players - you never need to handle the tormenting harmonisation nightmare..


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