Folklore: Concertina Weasels

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 08:27 AM

... the victim strangled - and the only clue to the perpetrator: it was someone with long fingernails on only one hand - was it the guitarist?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: Bernard
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 10:34 AM

Micca... you should know better than to ask! You've seen the contents of my 'tina cases! Yes, folks, they contain... 'tinas!!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: Gurney
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 12:51 AM

Those breeders are determined people. It took years of inbreeding to get half-hexagonal rib-cages on the weasels.



Our cats hate the concertina, too.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: SylviaN
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 02:49 AM

I must add a warning to this thread - someone tried to sell me a beautiful looking concertina, that had a white stripe down the middle of the bellows. It was alright until you started playing it, and then the smell was just awful!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 09:14 AM

For a place to compare breeds, try the thread headed 'Concertina sessions at Fareham Easter Fest'.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: JeffB
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 03:15 PM

I looked inside my comcertina to see if it had hairy weasel skin, but5 it was bear.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 03:44 PM

I think the bellows on me bass anglo must be pigskin judging by the noises it makes.

Ooh me bellows 'anglo an I swing 'em to an' fro,
I can tie em in a knot, I can tie em in a bow,
Ooh, I get a funny feeling whem I scrape em on the ceiling,
Ooh, I get a funny feeling when me bellows 'anglo.

tune, College Hornpipe

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: Gurney
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 02:50 AM

Silvia, that bellowsleather had been cured with woad, the warpaint of the ancient (and unwashed) Britons.



You can often see a white line down the middle of the woad.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: JeffB
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 08:24 AM

Sorry, there were some typos in my post yesterday. I should have said that I looked inside my concertina but it was bare of hare.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: maeve
Date: 01 Apr 12 - 07:41 AM

This seems to be a good day for this thread's revival.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: The Sandman
Date: 01 Apr 12 - 07:51 AM

Ihave heard of a ferret who plays the concertina

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 01 Apr 12 - 08:16 AM

Ha! A timely revival if e'er I saw one... Actually this all started off with a spot of banter in a session with the redoubtable Rob Malaney o' Moffat who was complaining of extraneous wind noises from his trusty Lachenal - so concertina wheezes became concertina weasels and we free-styled an entire routine which I summarise in my OP.

Was that really 4 years ago?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Concertina Weasels
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 10:57 AM

It's April Fool's Day all over again.