Well, here I am - a concertina player of all things, considering taking up the whistle as well! My first - a Sweetone D, should arrive here today, so I’ll go from there! This site has convinced me that at least I should “give it a try”, so I’ll keep you all posted on how the experiment turns out!
You’re not going to regret it, Squeezer! Whistles are a lot easier to stick in your pocket than a concertina…though we must admit that the concertina comes a close second as far as portability!
Welcome to the board
I hate to ask this question (becasue it shows ignorance on my part) but what is a concertina?
God bless,
Mo
[ This Message was edited by: MoR on 2001-12-11 09:44 ]
[ This Message was edited by: MoR on 2001-12-11 09:45 ]
Squeezer… welcome aboard, you won’t be sorry !!
MoR, follow this link:
http://www.concertina.net/
Concertina - a bit like an accordion but different. And there’s several different types of accordion anyway.
Ahhhhhh!
Now I have been enlightened! Did not know that’s what they called thos … I thought they were accordions … I guess kinda they are.
Thanks.
In light of my recent discovery then the name Squeezer has a whole new meaning and is quite fitting 
Welcome!
Actually, the concertina came BEFORE the accordion! It doesn’t have chords that can be played with a single button, but chords can be played. There are three distinct types of concertinas - the original, or “English” plays the same note bellows in or bellows out, and the scale moves from left side to right side for each ascending note. The “Anglo” (actually Anglo-German) plays a different note bellows in or bellows out (kinda like a harmonica), and is THE instrument for Traditional Irish music! The third type sorta combines the features of the other two (and there are several variations of this type).
But this is keeping me away from playing my little Sweetone, which arrived DAMAGED yesterday! I’ve another on order, so that won’t stop me from my pursuit :>)
Cool - the concertina. I never knew
Hmmm. Your Sweetone is damaged? From delivery or is it a defect in manufacturing? I am in the process of ordering one of those little puppies too. Hopefully from a local music store but may have to use other means.
Yep - the little begger came in a HUGE box with a handful of peanuts (insufficient to prevent damage). It was bent practically in HALF! More on this after I complete negotiations with the shipper!
Welome aboard!
I must say, Concertina players crack me up!
They never look like they are doing anything, (at least the one at the session I attend). He just holds it under the table and sits there rocking back and forth and smiling. 
I always wonder what people in the pub think when they come in and see this guy surrounded by instruments smiling and rocking back and forth with his hands under the table. 
Well, maybe he’s not playing the concertina! Don’t know why he would be holding it “under the table.” My playing is all “above the table.” Actually, we don’t allow any tables near the players (fiddlers, whistles, concertinas, hammered dulcimer, harp and an occasional guitar!
Squeezer. . .tell me that you don’t have any bodhran players and I’ll hop the next flight (ducking from anything thrown by closet drummers on the whistler site).
Oh, I just forgot the Bodhrans! Yes, we get them on occasion, BUT not in the “regular” group, so come on over! We need the beat!!
On 2001-12-11 15:57, Squeezer wrote:
Oh, I just forgot the Bodhrans! Yes, we get them on occasion, BUT not in the “regular” group, so come on over! We need the beat!!
Squeezer, I think you misunderstood Tyghress there. 
And no, you DON’T need the beat, trust me…
(also ducking and running)
I don’t get it… what are bodhrans? And what is the beat? Someone fill me in on the joke please!
Sara
“All we are saying, is give peace a chance.”
Sara…
Follow these links:
http://www.ifccsa.org/bodhran.html
http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bodhran/
http://www.celticmusic.com/alfonso_bodhrans/
Welcome to this wacky world, Squeezer. If you haven’t figured out that we’re all nuts here…you soon will. Sorry about the whistle. Aren’t there any shops somewhere near Ukiah that you could purchase a whistle on the spot?
And Bloomfield…you’d better start running and ducking…I play my bodhran in church on occasion…GM
Grannymouse: The GOOD news is that the shipper (who shall remain unnamed) acknowledged the error in judgement, and is shipping another whistle at no cost to me. And no, we don’t have an immediate source of whistles here, although Lark in The Morning is not toooo far away (and there’s always San Francisco.
Great session tonight! And we didn’t need the beat after all :>)
They never look like they are doing anything, (at least the one at the session I attend). He just holds it under the table and sits there rocking back and forth and smiling.
I always wonder what people in the pub think when they come in and see this guy surrounded by instruments smiling and rocking back and forth with his hands under the table.
Actually, what he's doing is putting the concertina on the ground and then holding the MiniDisc player with the prerecorded concertina bits, queing up each tune as it becomes necessary.
The smile is because he gets the free beer just like the other musicians who are actually working... :wink:
~Firefly