Well! as I have said before on the site, I am working jolly hard learning I T…both on the whistle and a piano accordion…as I am retired I get plenty of time to practice…and get out little as I care full time for my wife…I am also learning English Traditional dance music…today got them a bit mixed up and had trad fans from either genre heard , I am sure I would have offended a few…I was actually playing a tune I learnt from one John Kirkpatrick ( English music) The Sheringham Breakdown…a very fast hornpipe…on my accordion… BUT…I found myself putting in a few fast triples…learnt from Karen Tweeds Accordion course…Irish Trad…and they worked just great…the triples were played on one note..using fingers 1,2 &3 in quick succession…I did nothing else for a week to learn to do these…English music has few of the I T s embelishments…but..these triples really worked …English Trad is though quite safe…all my playing…at present.. is in my garage…thought I would share that…Les.
Interesting story Les.
I too play both English and Irish music (and a smattering of Scottish), and probably have a mix of styles in my own fiddle playing. Generally I learn a tune in a particular style, and they don’t get mixed, but embellishments do creep in when I’ve played the tunes a lot.
My Melodeon playing is fixed firmly in the English style (so far).