Melodeon player in West Yorkshire, England. I also play concertina and cello, and mostly work with Mary Humphreys who sings and plays English concertina and banjo. Our web site (see link "Mary Humphreys and Anahata" below) includes a full index of all our RU-vid videos, with notation for some of the tunes and arrangements. The Treewind Music web site (also linked below) has a CD shop where you can order CDs of our music and songs.
Hello, This is beautiful and I love the button boxes or Harmonicas or Diatonic Accordions as I played one myself from a very early age never taught but still, I love the music. I loved the bass combinations. totally new to me. you now have a new friend lets keep in touch.🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗😄😄
Thanks, I didn't think I'd seen you here for a while. We're OK, though I had my second dose of Covid a couple of weeks ago - bit of a non-event, but I still get tired easily.
Thanks for playing it in d. I'm a fiddle player and I like to learn tunes playing along with RU-vid videos and on fiddle it's usually played in d but I couldn't find any fiddle videos of this tune. You're playing was really good also.
A good version of this famous tune, thank you. I, too, struggled to get my head around this tune for a long time. I studied the video recording made by Swedish Television in 1954. Probably the same video that @liraman mentioned in his comment and that you have seen. I studied that video along with a number of other recordings of him playing the tune. Finally, I think I got it the same way as he played it on that video. The good thing about the video is that one can actually see where he puts his fingers in a few key moments in the tune. The tuning of the melodeon he uses is of importance. Every single button sounds 3 octaves of the same note. This is "standard" on many 1-row melodeons, but it is a bit important to keep in mind here. The top button is tuned a bit differently from many other 1-row melodeon. These two facts he utilizes in a clever way in the second verse, to get the possibility to play a "better/more correct" left-hand note in one part of the tune. If you are interested, I did a recording of my interpretation of the tune. You can find it on my channel (@BjornEk). I played it in D on that video. My melodeon has the top button tuned the same way as Jularbos melodeon so I can use the same trick in the second verse. I also have sheet music for my interpretation. Just contact me by messenger if interested.
Hello Bjorn. I have heard your recording of this tune, which is very good and precise. I made a mistake in transcribing it, and I am not playing that low note (G in this case as I'm playing in C.) My instrument has it; I just made a mistake in the transcription. One day I'll record an improved version!
Hi! I noticed recently that I've been playing it wrong, from my own incorrect transcription. I've put it right now in the transcription, and you'll find it (along with music for most of the other tunes I play) at maryanahata.co.uk/music.php?id=338
There's a good list here: forum.melodeon.net/index.php/page,shops_repairers.html It's somewhat UK biased but suppliers in some other countries are listed.
Anahata, I recently put my video on utube and it was flagged copyright. I didn’t know what to do so I cancelled the video and contacted the Northumbrian sappers Society for permission. The secretary just informed me they have no copyright on the Weymouth Quickstep. Can you please help me understand what the issue is and how I can deal with it. It’s become a favorite piece to me.
RU-vid's copyright mechanism is pretty random, and of course it's automatic. I've had a few videos flagged for copyright but they weren't removed by me or RU-vid. It's the copyright holder's decision, but in many cases they will let you leave it there. Sometimes you get adverts tacked on to it, and if your channel is earning money for you, that video won't make you anything from adverts displayed and some of the earnings go to the copyright holder. If I were you I'd put the video back on and see what happens. I doubt they'll nuke your whole channel!
Thanks for your reply and helpful suggestions. I’ve learned a lot from your videos over the past years and respectfully consider you my teacher. Here in northern Indiana there are no melodeon players. I have great fun playing in my retirement and I play a few historical festivals in the fall.
Love that tune!! I'm going to work it up on my old 5String!! Thanks for posting. Wouldn't have the music lying around would you? would be a great help, thanks. No problem if not, just thought I'd ask.
I was at Thaxted ring meeting in 1969? The horn dance performance was the highlight of the weekend. It got the hair on the back of your neck up! I believe the reason that Thaxted are "allowed" to perform the dance is that they "rescued" it when Abbots Bromley ceased performing at some point.
I first heard it on a recording made at Thaxted on a tiny hand held cassette recorder, about 1975. Even with the poor quality of a tape played though a 2" speaker, the atmosphere of the performance was quite magical and when I got to hear it at the event couple of years later I was not disappointed.
Some similar themes to Willy O' Winsbury! I noticed one verse even has similar words: "Her apron was low, her haunches were out / Her face was pale and won" BTW, my favourite version of that song is Lady Moon's video here on RU-vid
Thanks for your interest. Yes, pregnancy is a common theme in traditional ballads, and the euphemistic references to apron strings and complexion are a widely used metaphor (also known a s a floating verse). The stories of the two songs couldn't be more different, though: In this song the young man is a chancer who abandons the girl to a life of destitution as single mother; in Willy O'Winsbury he's a rich lord who marries the girl and we're led to assume they'll live happily ever after. If you like "Willie O' Winsbury" you may be interested in this take on the song, to the original tune collected by Cecil Sharp from a Mr. Gorge in Bridgewater, Somerset and published in Bronson's "Traditional tunes to the Child Ballads". Lady Moon's version (like almost everybody else's) uses the tune popularised by Anne Briggs following a clerical error by Andy Irvine matching the tune to the wrong song! See maryanahata.co.uk/music.php?id=318 (sound only: we weren't making videos back in 2001!)
Oakwood, made in Leeds, England in the 1990s. They don't make melodeons any more, in fact it looks like the man behind it, Martyn Banks, has retired and is no longer making any instruments at all.
