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Thread #62028 Message #1001679
Posted By: Bob Bolton
13-Aug-03 - 11:48 PM
Thread Name: OZ Foray from Maine & Guam-Late November
Subject: RE: OZ Foray from Maine & Guam-Late November
G'day Charlie,
The G/D Lachenal is a nice traditional instrument ... no use at all to those aspiring to play Irish 18-to-the dozen modern stage style - but a nice squeezebox to an old-style player in the Gaeltach. Certainly a nice box to accompany a few shanties ... or pump out a hornpipe.
It doesn't bite ... and, as long as the seals are all tight, it shouldn't attract too many poisonous snakes. I seem to remember an old bush story ... maybe it was an aside in Henry Lawson's story The Drover's Wife (basically the prose counterpart to his poem ... latterly a song ... Past Carin') where a snake's intrusion into the family's bark hut is blamed on the "hissing" of the leaky bellows of a squeezebox!