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(Date Posted:23/11/2004 5:56 PM)

I've been playing the Bellowhead ep for a couple of weeks now and I am a different person to the one I was before I'd heard it. It's superb. It rocks like a whole gang of swarthy bastards. And *gulp* I have now decided to join my local morris team. And learn the melodian. It's THAT good. I'm trying to sing like Jon, but can only manage a strangulated squeak (damn high register) where he sounds, regally, like a man in supermarket trolley going over a cattle grid. I LOVE distinctive vocals.
Now then - gig in Manchester please, quite soon would be good. And an album? Ta.
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(Date Posted:23/11/2004 6:59 PM)

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I've been playing the Bellowhead ep for a couple of weeks now and I am a different person to the one I was before I'd heard it. It's superb. It rocks like a whole gang of swarthy bastards. And *gulp* I have now decided to join my local morris team. And learn the melodian. It's THAT good.


Hello...


You are not alone here, nor will you be alone if you visit www.melodeon.net  where many of the afflicted congregate . I warn you it'll take over your life if you don't watch it!. I bought mine the day ofter a Bellowhead gig (they have a lot to answer for) mind you it was the final push I needed...Mrs K of this board has me (attempting to) play for the Morris team and I am now completely addicted .


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(Date Posted:23/11/2004 7:31 PM)

It's good to know I'm not alone, then! That website looks interesting - thanks. But any thoughts about melodeon vs, piano accordian? I've got some keyboard experience, you see, and I was wondering whether I'd get further, quicker, on the piano accordian. (I do know they are two seperate beasts linked by squeeziness).
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(Date Posted:23/11/2004 7:33 PM)

Oops - that was me. Forgot to log in.
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(Date Posted:23/11/2004 7:56 PM)

 


I'm no expert , but I guess you need to find out if you can  deal with the diatonic 'two different notes on one button'  you'll get with the melodeon (on the push/pull), and not on the piano accordian,  or not.  I always was too scared of the number of little black buttons on the left had side of a piano accordian to even dare pick one up!.  Go in a shop and have a play on some of both!  .


My piano playing and teaching friend (being used to one note per key) couldn't get her head round  the melodeon  at all, though it hasn't caused me too many problems (I used to play piano a bit too). 


I believe Squeezy    started on the piano accordian and changed to melodeon, so he might have some thoughts...

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(Date Posted:23/11/2004 8:17 PM)

Hmm, yes I guess I should actually go and play one of the things before I decide. But I want to do it now!!!!
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(Date Posted:23/11/2004 9:35 PM)

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Hmm, yes I guess I should actually go and play one of the things before I decide. But I want to do it now!!!!


A word of advice from an expert (not me I hasten to add but Rod Stradling of The Old Swan Band) is to get a 10 hole, diatonic mouth organ and try and see if you can get a tune out of that (not a blues or chromatic one) as it is exactly the same principle as the melodeon.  If you can play the mouth organ you'll cope on the melodeon and it's a damn site cheaper if you can't.


As Fee suggests, get your self over to Melodeon.net and have a good look round, it's got a forum as well as links to shops, manufacturers and other sites.  Melodeons are simply the best instrument in the world!


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(Date Posted:24/11/2004 12:42 AM)

Rod Stradling of the Old Swan Band eh? Takes me back to a festival early last summer when an Old Swan asked me if I'd seen any of the rest of the band. Well, I said, I'd seen a Fraser sister but not a Stradling. "Why should you?" was the reply. He's not been in the band for 25 years." Oh, sorry, I replied but I thought...



"...Nah. Just for Sidmouth." Oh, I said.



Still, Dazbo, you've set my mind at rest about never being able to get my head around the anglo concertina. Should have realised after I was so rubbish at the mouth organ. Anyway, the English concertina is just so much more...well, English. Isn't it?

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(Date Posted:24/11/2004 2:09 AM)

...oh, and LOTS of Bellowhead Folk Awards nominations...hooray, WOOHOO!

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