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Thread #45102   Message #1461033
Posted By: GUEST,jdaly@palmnet.net
14-Apr-05 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: concertinas, a beginners view
Subject: RE: Help: concertinas, a beginners view
For Polska,

We enjoy Scandi dancing, and we were listening to some wonderful music, I think by Jonsonlinjen, in which the free reed instrument was an antique reed organ. The cover has a photo of them carrying the instrument around. Very nice sound, and very different from the various accordion flavors. Also, at the Buffalo Gap dance workshop one of the musicians had a very nice Wheatstone English concertina which she used to wonderful effect. So there are all sorts of possibilities for free reeds in Scandinavian dance music.

John