Hi Folks, The 12-hole Hohner #364 Marine Band I mentioned lately comes only in Low C, Low D, and G. Here are note diagrams for them. They also work for...
Bonjour, Je dois traduire un document sur les chants de voyageur pour le boulot et je me demande s'il y aurait moyen de traduire l'expression "chansons à...
Moi, je dirais "call and response song"... ... -- Benoit Pelletier Shoja Concord, New Hampshire LaFranceLaPerse@... [Non-text portions of this message...
Ou, peut-etre, "responsorial song". Il y a de réponse, mais il n'y a d'appel (call). La réponse est réellement une réitération. Winslow ... boulot et ... ...
Salut Christiane, Je te suggérerais d'écrire un courriel à Guy Bertrand qui est le conseiller linguistique à Radio-Canada et qui collabore souvent avec les...
Bonjour Christiane, The fiddler from Genticorum, when I saw them in Michigan last year, translated "chanson à répondre" as "answer back song." He's the only...
"Chorus response song" might be the most descriptive. A soloist sings something, the chorus (large group) responds by repeating it. The problem with "call" or...
Salut le monde, I am selling a Learner 2-row, button accordion. It's in the Irish tuning of C#/D. It's spotless and new at 2 yrs old, red, signed by Billy...
This may seem a strange question, and perhaps it is. But I am a ukulele player, interested in the history of the uke in Canada, as well as in traditional...
Strange question indeed , My uneducated guess is that ukes were somewhat popular between the WW , 1920-30 but still in the shadow on the mandolin . Mandolin...
I wonder if La Bolduc ever recorded with ukulele? It was about the right time period and the uke would have fit in well with her bouncy modern sound. On the...
Mmme. Bolduc and ukulele? Don't think so. I have her complete works on CD and don't recall hearing it. A few trad 78s recorded in Montréal around that time do...
Lucy - Yes, the Gramophone Virtuel has many of these. A search on the word "banjo" produces 133 hits. Much of this is not trad music and muchnof it is clearly...
Somehow, I've lost the liner notes for my Queteux CD, "Ca l'air d'aller." Does anybody have the lyrics for "Ma fille veut a recoutillier?" As I recall, the...
Thanks all for your helpful comments re ukulele. And thanks Winslow for mentioning Gramaphone Virtuel, which I confess I wasn't familiar with. What a great...
... Mme. Bolduc played harmonica on Valse Denise - she was a very good harmonica player and deserves full honours in the company of her contemporaries like...
My friend Stephane Poirier will be happy to send it to you directly. I'll tell him. ... From: "mcindoefalls" mcindoefalls@... Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006...
I wonder who did play the ukulele then? And thanks, Winslow, for your tip regarding my use of "La." The dangers of venturing outside my cultural comfort zone....
Winslow, What key do you favor for Quebec Trad... Low D or G ??? Thanks Jeff ... the ... the ... may ... you ... makes ... Ireland ... USA ... of ... due...
My post should have read which "XB 40" key do you prefer for QueTrad Thanks Jeff ... the ... the ... may ... you ... makes ... Ireland ... USA ... of ... due...
Either one. Depends on the tune, and on the context. If a set of tunes goes through more than one key, I prefer to play it all on one harp. Sometimes the D...
You can hear me playing a set of Scots and Irish tunes on XB-40 here: http://www.thebuddhasgroove.com/buddhaforum/forum.asp?$sid=&id=32 Note the other Canadian...
Thqanks for the info. Great playing. Jeff ... on ... also ... over ... has ... that ... bendable ... blues, ... it ... Hohner ... Db). ... favor ... partly ......
... On reflection I decided to revisit this question. Listening to the old-time players, almost all played first position, using the harmonica in the labeled...
... \Winslow, I believe I read a post where you siad many of the Quebec players used the Tremolo harps..specifically the Echo Harp... Have you tried the...
The Echo Celeste is tuned differently from the "standard" Echo. The "Standard" Echo (for want of a better term) has the same incomplete scale you find in the...
