The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25119   Message #1088946
Posted By: JWB
08-Jan-04 - 05:00 PM
Thread Name: CONCERTINA Advice Solicited
Subject: RE: CONCERTINA Advice Solicited
The Button Box in Amherst, Massachusetts, has a good selection of new and used squeezeboxes. They are manufacturing very nice mid-priced Anglo and English concertinas, too. You can find them on line.

I've been working on making my Anglo sound more like an English, as treewind suggests. It's fun and I think I'm actually growing new brain cells as a result of the concentration. The technique I'm after is the Irish style of playing -- "out of the rows" I think they call it. For example, playing the G major or C major scales without changing bellows direction (I have a C/G box). But I dearly love the punch I get from the old in-out in-out, playing chanteys and such. And it's more aerobic, too.

Comprimere in aeternum,

Jerry