majcher wrote:I recently acquired a concertina, but I have little idea how to make it do anything interesting, beyond the squeaky noises my monkey fingers squeeze out of it. I hear there might be someone around here that could point me in the right direction.
Well, that all depends.
What kind of concertina do you have? Is it English or Anglo? If anglo, how many buttons? 20... 30? If 20, what key?
I'm going to guess that you have a 20 button Anglo in C/G. If so, woo. I can definitely help you out there. In fact, I can help you out with a better instrument, but we're getting ahead of the game here.
Of course, you might actually have a Konzertina, which is vaguely related, but totally different.
The cheaper instruments can be frustrating to learn on, but we can't all have 30 button Jeffries with original bellows papers from the 1860s, you know what I mean?
I haven't touched my concertina in months.
sad.a