The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93059 Message #1786058
Posted By: Artful Codger
17-Jul-06 - 11:17 PM
Thread Name: ornamentation on the english concertina
Subject: RE: ornamentation on the english concertina
I sometimes use a three-note twiddle on the same side, with the third above, though I'm guessing you cover this.
Another ornament I sometimes use is to intersperse a few drone notes between melody notes or broken chords. Sounds harder than it is.
You can also add short chromatic runs. But seems the accidental I want is never where I expect it to be, unless I work it out beforehand.
Which brings to mind: Do have advice on how to recover when your fingers end up on the wrong row or column, and you sound like you're having a sudden psychotic episode?
Also, do you ever add portamento by wiggling the bellows?