meggys foot practiceconcertina

Subject: meggys foot Tina practice
From: The Sandman
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 10:29 AM

This excellent tune I omitted from my tutor. It can be found in the northumbrian pipers tune book,.
It is supposed to be the sound of a horse running across the field ,then stopping when it gets a stone in its hoof, it is an excellent tune for practising staccato and legato on all types of Concertina, or fiddle or any instrument. Dick Miles

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Greg B
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 02:10 PM

...just after it throws a fancy shoe, to the tune of $120,
no doubt, in a place that'll never be found, or will be
found the day after the smithy makes up another.

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Little Robyn
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 02:29 PM

I understood that Meggy was supposed to be a lame pit pony. The sort of up-down rhythm was meant to be her hobbling gait - rather like Bing Crosby's Small One.
Robyn

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Artful Codger
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 02:54 PM

Recorded by Alistair Anderson on "Traditional Tunes". He titled it "Maggy's Foot".

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Artful Codger
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:07 PM

BTW, Anderson gave a similar explanation to Robyn's.

Subject: RE: meggys foot practice concertina
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 08:29 PM

Dick

I had this Heath Robinson-ian vision of a weird and complex musical instrument...

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 04:15 AM

Northumbrian pipers tune book, page 33 Meggys Foot.

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Scrump
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 04:49 AM

I had this Heath Robinson-ian vision of a weird and complex musical instrument...

LOL - exactly what I thought when I saw the thread title. Pity, I was hoping there was a previously unheard of (by me) foot-playable concertina that I could play at the same time as my guitar :-)

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Little Robyn
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 05:03 AM

Yes Dick, page 33 of the first NPS tune book and also page 5 of 'Small-pipe tunes from the Northumbrian Minstrelsy', at least the version that Colin Ross and Barry Say revised in 1998. Lots of goodies in that book.
Robyn

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Anglogeezer
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 03:52 PM

Scrump had visions of a "wierd and wonderful instrument" ; try this!!

Foot Bass

Jake

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Anglogeezer
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 04:06 PM

Sorry it wasn't Scrump, it was Foolstroupe!
Jake

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: Anglogeezer
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 04:28 PM

I see that the blue clicky thingy didn't work so cut & paste this

:- www.bandoneon-maker.com/footbass_1.htm

Jake

Subject: RE: meggys foot practiceconcertina
From: The Sandman
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 04:47 AM

again I suppose the best way to practice this tune on the English concertina, is to play it as written in G, and then try it on a key that starts on the opposite side [d major].