The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163932   Message #3916749
Posted By: The Sandman
12-Apr-18 - 05:16 AM
Thread Name: concertinas
Subject: RE: concertinas
The anglo, being a glorified mouth organ, is for a beginner much the easier to get to grips with and learn to play tunes quickly."
depends on the person, i found the english easier, despite being able to play harmonica.
you will in time have to use your air button while playing to learn to. steve mentinons advanced playing on anglo which involves cross rowing, there are severl different cross rowing variations, one use the c row as the home row, one uses the g row as the home row, there is a third system which uses your two strongest fingers to start with, google or ask on concertina net, this is a system that, Noel Hill advocates for beginners as a starting point