How to Play a German Concertina

I meant to put a note up about the concertina festival, but it seems I've forgotten until now! At any rate, it was a good time,

For everyone out there reading this blog.... You should know that this weekend is the annual 3 day Central Wisconsin Concertina Festival  ...

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 ...

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

In the blog post before this, " 76 Easy Songs " I have a collection of easy and familiar songs all in the key of G.  This is a nic...

Once you are somewhat proficient in the key of G, your brain will need something more interesting to keep it focused on learning to play. ...

After you have become somewhat familiar with the buttons of the key of G and are ready for a greater challenge, I have some additional exer...

Despite not posting for a short time, I have in fact been busy.  I've revamped the order of the " Learn To Play " page of this...

I have all this material on this site for the Chemnitzer concertina.  However, it really only applies to the small community of players in W...

One thing I've found in playing the concertina, is how difficult it is to play a string of notes legato .  The buttons are just so far a...

Having gotten this far, and having been practicing the concertina a little, I can manage to play single notes in the key of G to some extent...

I have links to the Czech Area Concertina Club ( concertinaclub.org ) quite frequently in my posts.  This is because they have pretty much t...

The [past] president of the CACC graciously replied to my query about how people with concertinas play with each other and with other instr...

Taking as a sample the Czech Area Concertina Club sheet music, I checked to see what kind of key signatures are the most common. No surpr...

The complete scales are too much to put an image, so this is PDF download only.  Also, instead of merely creating the scale of each key, I w...

The thing that actually made me interested in concertinas, was the antique concertina/squeeze box/button box that I inherited from my grandm...

The complete scales are too much to put an image, so this is PDF download only.  Also, instead of merely creating the scale of each key, I w...

The natural scale is the same as the white keys on a piano.  These are all the white key piano notes that you can play on a concertina, draw...

The Chromatic scale is like all of the keys on a piano, black and white, arranged in ascending or descending order.  The buttons of the conc...

As a trumpet player and college athlete, I find the concept of muscle memory very useful.  "When a movement is repeated over time, a ...