The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101858 Message #2064497
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
30-May-07 - 08:16 PM
Thread Name: Accordion vs Melodian
Subject: RE: Accordion vs Melodian
"went through almost their entire stock, trying to find one that had a fast enough action"
I have this theorey why 'old instruments in good condition' are often so lousy to play - the good ones get played to death and scrapped - the lousy ones get shoved under the bed and brought out 50 years later 'when gran died' ...
:-)
Been lucky - most of the boxes I have acquired seem to be "good'uns" - have walked past many second hand boxes that just sound or feel crap... more Hohners than others... :-)
"wasn't a coronary but a cramp."
You MUST build that muscle - youwant speed and not just strength - so you need to develop both types of muscle fibre.
Of course, once the arthritus starts to kick in, you slow down...
"it's all about reed response, and instruments that are really good will nearly always feel really bad at first, because we're not up to them. "
I have a "Littel Black" tin whistle, it's a beast - cause it has the fastest 'note to note' action of all my whistles - it speaks so much faster than I can easily play that it sounds great on the very fast stuff, but a bugger to play 'soft & slowly' (you need to start and stop the notes cleanly and clearly with good technique, else it 'warbles') - as I've said elsewhere - that needs a better class of muso to work this instrument - as it's easier to play 'fast and loud'. Maybe it's my MMD that keeps frustrating me with this one.... :-)
Robin