Monday, April 21, 2014

Central Wisconsin Concertina Festival - 2014

For everyone out there reading this blog....

You should know that this weekend is the annual 3 day Central Wisconsin Concertina Festival up in Merrill, WI (near Wausau).

It seems to be a concertina show/swap meet. Who knows, perhaps I'll come home with one of my own?

"Features more than 100 concertina artists from around the state and beyond."
Call 715-536-9405.


Problems with both hands: LH too loud

I have finally run into my first real difficulty with how I thought I was going to learn to play.

With my "legato attempting to be a piano" style, the left hand completely drowns out the right hand melody.  It is effectively impossible to play a right hand melody over a left hand chord of more than 1 or 2 buttons.

What to do, right?

Draw or Press?

When I re-notated the "Commonly Used Chords" for the left hand [CACC - Jerry Krzmarzick], I finally realized what was going on with the decisions for "Draw" and "Press" directions.

Quite simply, in one direction, a chord will be impossible to play all the notes at once (although you could arpeggiate it, perhaps), while in the other direction, it is ridiculously easy.

This means that Chemnitzer concertina music is written for the left hand.