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I haven’t done Tuneswap Tuesday for a while… anyone got some good folk for me? Here’s Clive Williams playing a Northumbrian pipe tune on a tiny melodeon: Peacock Followed the Hen
#TuneswapTuesday #Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
I’m in the process of converting my melodeon playing to using what is known as the the "Dutch Reversal", where button five on the inside row plays E/D rather than D/E. My latest “composition” is what happens if you play “Speed the Plough” as though on a “normal” melodeon. I think it sounds kinda groovy and minorish, so am claiming it as a “composition” until told otherwise, and naming it “Sneller met die ploeg” [No longer “Haasten de ploeg”] until someone improves my Dutch. (@sandradejong might you maybe advise please?)[Now received with grateful thanks!] Dots with .abc format notation in alt text below.
Edited to reflect naming advice
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Diato #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Will any cool kids from Mastodon be at the Halsway D/G melodeon event this weekend?
#Melodeon #ButtonAccordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordéonDiatonique #Accordion #Diato
Just found out that Julian Sutton (JS hereinafter) will be the third tutor at this year’s Halsway D/G weekend, so a little anecdote…
About ten years ago I went to Melodeons at Witney and JS was one of the tutors. The workshop of his I went to was “all abilities” and I was very much a beginner. It was way, way beyond me and I came away massively frustrated and annoyed that it was not as pitched. Trying to learn “The Great North Run” and “93 Not Out” at great pace, suitable for beginners?! I walked out knowing I’d learnt nothing and wasted that time when I could’ve gained useful knowledge/ technique in a different workshop.
Fast forward to last year at Halsway when playing in the bar one evening, someone started a tune and I joined in without particular difficulty although I didn’t know it, and also the one they segued into. “What were they?” I asked, “I don’t know them but seemed to be able to play them.” The reply, of course, was “The Great North Run into 93 Not Out.”
I’m not saying I guarantee I could repeat the capability to just join in and play them, but clearly something had stuck and I’d done JS a great disservice!
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #FolkLife #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
The Albion Band’s “Lark Rise to Candleford” was one of my childhood exposures to folk, and I still have my parents vinyl of it. Listening to it again, I had forgotten quite how good it is. Though I appreciate different tracks to I used to, I think that uplifting opening is why I have such affection for “Brighton Camp”.
Also you can play a guessing game each time you hear a melodeon: is that John Kirkpatrick or John Tams playing it? (What, you didn’t know that Tams could play the box as well as singing, fiddling etc? Shame!)
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Periodic reminder for #FolksongFriday that Pete Coe’s “Sound of Hohner” is absolutely brilliant.
#Melodeon #Diato #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #ButtonAccordion #Folk #FolkSong #FolkMusic #Music
This recording from Blowzabella’s early days of the well known “Bear Dance” is listed as “Bear Dance No. 3” - so is it the/a third recording of it, or are there two other Bear Dances that didn’t become popular? Anyone know?
https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/track/bear-dance-no-3
Anyone got any cool folk music to share this #TuneswapTuesday?
#Bagpipes #Europipes #Cornemuse #Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordeonDiatonique #Diato #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Ik heb weer betere dagen en dat is een goede timing, want vandaag ga ik naar een muziekvriendin in Harlingen om samen een paar nummers te kiezen en te arrangeren 🥳 In april gaan we dan (twee trekharmonica’s) een paar nummers spelen bij een bal in Groningen.
Het is altijd heerlijk om met haar te spelen, dus ik verheug me.
Duimen dat de autoreis door de sneeuw soepel gaat (ik zal voorzichtig doen, beloofd).
Filippo Gambetta! Ik ga vast energie sparen :)
#diatonischaccordeon #diatonicaccordion #balfolk https://mastodon.social/@stdraailierdoedelzak/115827983404191474
Today’s exciting delivery!
For anyone interested it is Milleret-Pignol layout in “D/G” - so D/Ehm/Accs… the “G/C” equivalent works well for me, so it made sense. Yes, it is… unusual…
#FolkLife #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Melodeon #FolkMusic #TradMusic
Folks, if you need something to listen to this #TuneswapTuesday you have got to check out Naragonia’s new album.
https://naragoniaquartet.bandcamp.com/album/nehalennia
#Accordion #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato #DiatonicAccordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Afgelopen zaterdag was de start van het nieuwe seizoen van de zaterdagcursus van @stdraailierdoedelzak (een half jaar lang één zaterdagmiddag per maand les). Ik gaf les aan m’n nieuwe groep halfgevorderde trekharmonicaspelers
Tof om in zo’n eerste les al kwartjes te zien vallen en ontwikkeling te horen in het spelen. Ik ben benieuwd naar hoe ze het komende half jaar gaan groeien 💛
(Op de eerste foto de docenten, op de tweede foto m’n klasje)
I’m selling my D/G Hohner Ouverture, if anyone is interested - see https://forum.melodeon.net/index.php?topic=31926.0
Just heard that the great Jean Blanchard, bagpiper and diatonic accordionist, has died. Sad times.
Glad we played this tune of his at the session last night https://youtu.be/NGB848i1FoY
#RIP #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato #DiatonicAccordion #Cornemuse #CornemuseDuCentre
Een foto van @stdraailierdoedelzak van de presentatie van onze samenspelgroep afgelopen zaterdag 💛
#folk #balfolk #trekharmonica #diatonicaccordion #hurdygurdy
Ik was gisteren bij de workshopdag van @stdraailierdoedelzak en deed mee met de samenspelworkshop van Lucas Thebaut.
Ik heb genoten en hoop jullie over een tijdje een opname te laten horen van ons arrangement van dit supermooie nummer van Philippe Conpagnon:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djcPP9--nAM
We waren met 14 mensen, waaronder twee violen, een sopraansaxofoon, een contrabas, een aantal trekharmonica’s, een paar blokfluiten, een cittern en een draailier.
#folk #balfolk #diatonicaccordion #hurdygurdy
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En ik had de deelauto vanmiddag nodig om tien huurharmonica’s bij Berend Kok op te halen voor @stdraailierdoedelzak
Even een pauze bij Almere - als het goed is ben ik bij mijn tussenstop-camping rond half zeven.
Met naast me mijn harmonica en achter me mijn trouwe fiets :)
- op weg naar Gooik -
Small study session. #diatonicaccordion #accordeon #diatonique
Today’s exciting post - search for Lucy & Hazel on Bandcamp to hear it for yourself
#Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #Melodeon #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #ProtestSong
Ja! Stichting Draailier & Doedelzak is hier, hoera!
Zij geven elk voorjaar een supertof workshopweekend in Brabant met workshops voor (uiteraard) draailier en doedelzak, maar ook samenspel én (hoera voor mij) trekharmonica.
Ik verheug me enorm op de komende jubileum-editie en m’n workshop bij Pascale Rubens 💛
Ga ze volgen als je van #folk en #balfolk houdt:
https://mastodon.social/@stdraailierdoedelzak
#muziek
#trekharmonica
#diatonicaccordion #draailier #doedelzak
I've not really played in about a week as my shoulder hasn't been right after some enthusiastic one-row playing... so here's someone a bit more competent playing one without hurting themselves!
Scan Tester's no.1 played by Peter Rogan - and doesn't a 4 stop in G sound glorious?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWvgfmEJkzk
#1row4stop #HA114 #Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Looks like Maugein will be reopening - though like others when they stopped this article ignores the existence of the diatonic makers Loffet, Vanglabeke, Rutkowski, Serafini, Errotabeara, etc - certainly not “the last accordion maker in France”
#Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordéonDiatonique #Accordeon
Given mention of La Bottine Souriante in this month’s Chatterbox, I’ve finally been getting around to learning Le Reel Des Soucoupes Volantes on the one-row… here they are playing it as my share for the first #TuneswapTuesday of 2025
https://youtu.be/lHoBppP62VQ?si&t=34m05s
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
I listened to the extended prerelease of this, which was awesome- find out things you never knew or didn’t realise about @squeezyjohn’s background, outlook and career, and some of the economics of the music scene. Assuming all that made the public cut!
https://youtu.be/uA5QAvf60oE?si=A5E54KFsSKgZ8WWO
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
I think I’ve mostly learned “Le Reel Des Soucoupes Volantes” on the box (as in knowing how to, not playing it in front of people with any real competence!) - not bad for “starting to look after I logged off work this afternoon”!
It doesn’t go badly on the two or three row, but I really like the simplicity of going for it on the one row - though you lose the left hand bass/chords matching “properly”…
#FolkLife #Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Squeezebox #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Here’s a slightly old but quite fun rendition of JK’s “Jump at the Sun” and Philippe Plard’s “Zelda” to take the chill off the weather this #TuneswapTuesday
#Melodeon #Diato #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #AccordéonDiatonique #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Vandaag voor de tweede keer de hele middag harmonicales geven in Zeist. Zin in, want we gaan mooie dingen spelen :)
Met de tekening die mijn dierbare, lieve en leuke muziekvriend Auke Eringa ooit vanuit maakte (toen ik nog een Mercedes 508 uit 1969 had).
The first #TuneswapTuesday in #Advent? Here’s @squeezyjohn playing his #Hohner Lucia in the December 3rd video of his #SqueezeboxAdventCalendar
https://youtu.be/KAm9XPEKGBE?t=9m05s
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #SystemeMixte #Squeezebox #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad #AdventCalendar
Excellent monthly podcast from #MelBiggs as always, this time talking to #LucyHuzzard - both great box players doing awesome things, including a new joint project making a safe space #FolkMusic week for women and marginalised genders next summer. There’s a YouTube version or it is available in all the usual streaming places - https://youtu.be/QBnO6TmRvu0
#Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #Folk #Music #TradMusic #Trad #InclusiveFolk #Inclusivity
A bit late to #TuneswapTuesday today, here’s Mel Biggs with Old Molly Oxford
#Melodeon #MelBiggs #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
A word I coined on this day in 2016:
Ofermelode: to hubristically play the diatonic button accordion too much.
As the first test train ran from Oxford to Bletchley High Level on #EWR yesterday it only seems appropriate to share The High Level Hornpipe by James Hill, played by Will Allen this #TuneswapTuesday
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Listened to some Jay Ungar on the bus home and remembered I really wanted to learn Waiting For The Federals and Ashokan Farewell. But work and life keep getting in the way of everything and I’m heading for another week where I only actually get to touch my box when actually at Morris practice/events :-(
Andy Cutting and Grégory Jolivet playing “The Rose of Raby” -
Now hit me up with the #FolkTune you want to share this #TuneswapTuesday!
#AndyCutting #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Diato #Melodeon #Eurobal #BalFolk #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Finally got around to listening to Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne’s new album, “Play Up The Music” and it is fantastic. Y’all should check it out:
https://cohenbraithwaite-kilcoyne.bandcamp.com/album/play-up-the-music
#Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #Concertina #AngloConcertina #FolkSong #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
I’ve been playing mine more. It is in C. I now want one in G so that I can play it with other people e.g. at morris.
Oops… can anyone help with this affliction?
#Melodeon #MAD (that’s #MelodeonAcquisitionDisorder) #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion
Good old Lester Bailey playing Albert Farmer’s Bonfire Tune on a one row four stop - classic for #TuneswapTuesday
I do love the sound and simplicity of the HA114 - I should play mine more. Not having to make decisions about cross rowing or what chords to play is a bonus!
#Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #EnglishFolk #EnglishFolkMusic #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
A pertinent folk tune for the day written and performed by @squeezyjohn - if I had a box with me I’d be playing it!
#Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #Melodeon #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad #UKPolitics #UKPol
One of the tutors on the #Halsway weekend was Lucy Huzzard, who is not just a great teacher and player but an engaging and passionate activist. She’s trying to get her musical career going, and is enough people like this YouTube video for her to win this climate song competition is she’ll get some cash that’ll help get her started.
Take a look and give it a like!
#Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #Melodeon #FolkSong #Music #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
Trek to Halsway D/G melodeon weekend: begun.
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #FolkLife
@luke @AccordionBruce
🧐 Brings up one of two different menus each time you click on it?
Shoutout to @GothAndy for generously supporting me by purchasing my track, Holy Grail! Thank you so much!
Andy is a multi-instrumentalist making hypnotic alternative music with a goth tinge reminiscent of #TheCure. While not on Bandcamp yet, you can check out his stuff on YouTube and Soundcloud. Fingers crossed that Bandcamp continues to be awesome so Andy can get his music released on there, too!
https://soundcloud.com/andrew-fereday
@FrlSchramm @Phil @seventeenmagpie
There’s a nice page about #Hohner club #diatonicaccordion models
https://ogaccordions.com/hohner-club-accordions/
@camilobotero
You could ask about a #DiatonicAccordion like that at:
http://forum.melodeon.net
❤️🔥🪗
You might want photos that show all the buttons on both sides, which make it easier to see the type you’ve got
It’s nearly impossible to judge value or condition of an #Accordion without the instrument in hand, so I wouldn’t recommend asking that
Seems a bit quiet in my corner of Mastodon… here’s Naragonia’s “Martin Pêcheur/Pink Molly” for Tuneswap Tuesday
#TuneswapTuesday #Music #Folk #FolkMusic #Trad #BalFolk #Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #Accordeon #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato
