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Researching the history of Signor Paolo Soprani BY Sean Quinn
Researching the history of Signor Paolo Soprani BY Sean Quinn
Hello ALL ,this was posted on the
Irtrad-L members List and it is an excellent background on the box ,follow the link ,Sean Quinn from Ireland done the work ,Martin Donohoe
About two years ago I started researching the history of Signor Paolo
Soprani and the button accordions which made his name famous in Irish
traditional music. I got a lot of useful info and pictures from the web
site of the Commune of Castelfidardo, Italy, as well as from members of
this list and others here in Ireland...thanks to you all.
The resulting article was intended for publication in the magazine of
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and I sent to them the text and a large number
of illustrations in the Spring of 2003 ! In spite of some false starts thay
have basically sat on it until now. It is admittedly a large piece,
untypically large for Treoir, and I was hoping they might spread it over a
couple of issues, but instead they opted to ditch most of the images, which
disappointed me. However, those of you who get Treoir will see it soon...I
decided to publish the full thing with all the illustrations, on the web,
so you can see what I was originally trying to do.
Nice one - I love this sort of thing. You are to be commended on a valiant effort and you deserved to be over a few issues. Maybe you'd consider other places, even the journal of "The Galpin Society". They aren't all about moldy old things found in rotting in churches or at the bottom of the deep blue sea... There are other places to get your work published. I've only had a quick look, but I'll spend time with it and if I can think of places to recommend, I will - There is also other languages - "Trad" mag in France, or "In The Tradition" in the UK... But, get what you want, and if you want it to be made available in full, even if that means in installments, demand that. You've worked hard. A little editing is OK, but not the axe job I'm sure that Treoir will have done, in order to fit it in between 'friends of Treoir' - as it can be a bit nepotistic, not that they are alone in such things...
You would have to tailor your work to the magazine, if you went for another source for publication, but since Treoir has it in one form, you'd need to do that anyway. As an example, if you went Galpin, well, you'd need more innards, and something about reeds and tuning and the wet and dry.
Re: Researching the history of Signor Paolo Soprani BY Sean Quinn
Thanks for all the kind comments and thanks to Martin for posting the original link to my article. I got most of the information off the web, some from talking to various box-freaks
Ceolachan - I understand from postings on the IrishBox group that Paolo Soprani left his estate between two daughters. One got the farm and made good with it. The other got the accordion business and let it fade away !
Researching the history of Signor Paolo Soprani BY Sean Quinn
Researching the history of Signor Paolo Soprani BY Sean Quinn
Hello ALL ,this was posted on the
Irtrad-L members List and it is an excellent background on the box ,follow the link ,Sean Quinn from Ireland done the work ,Martin Donohoe
About two years ago I started researching the history of Signor Paolo
Soprani and the button accordions which made his name famous in Irish
traditional music. I got a lot of useful info and pictures from the web
site of the Commune of Castelfidardo, Italy, as well as from members of
this list and others here in Ireland...thanks to you all.
The resulting article was intended for publication in the magazine of
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and I sent to them the text and a large number
of illustrations in the Spring of 2003 ! In spite of some false starts thay
have basically sat on it until now. It is admittedly a large piece,
untypically large for Treoir, and I was hoping they might spread it over a
couple of issues, but instead they opted to ditch most of the images, which
disappointed me. However, those of you who get Treoir will see it soon...I
decided to publish the full thing with all the illustrations, on the web,
so you can see what I was originally trying to do.
It can be found at:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sean_quinn/psoprani/psoprani.htm
.
Seán Quinn ******sean_quinn@ntlworld.com
Web Site: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sean_quinn
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by Martin Donohoe
Don't stop with Treoir - - -
Nice one - I love this sort of thing. You are to be commended on a valiant effort and you deserved to be over a few issues. Maybe you'd consider other places, even the journal of "The Galpin Society". They aren't all about moldy old things found in rotting in churches or at the bottom of the deep blue sea... There are other places to get your work published. I've only had a quick look, but I'll spend time with it and if I can think of places to recommend, I will - There is also other languages - "Trad" mag in France, or "In The Tradition" in the UK... But, get what you want, and if you want it to be made available in full, even if that means in installments, demand that. You've worked hard. A little editing is OK, but not the axe job I'm sure that Treoir will have done, in order to fit it in between 'friends of Treoir' - as it can be a bit nepotistic, not that they are alone in such things...
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by ceolachan
Back after a quick reed
You would have to tailor your work to the magazine, if you went for another source for publication, but since Treoir has it in one form, you'd need to do that anyway. As an example, if you went Galpin, well, you'd need more innards, and something about reeds and tuning and the wet and dry.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/galpin/
And, getting things mixed up as I can, I should have said "The Living Tradition":
http://www.folkmusic.net/
And they do have some hot translators, better on their side than ours:
http://www.tradmagazine.com/
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by ceolachan
What I would have liked, missing in my mind - is an interview with say the daughter - loving that kind of context...
# Posted on December 6th 2004 by ceolachan
Re: Researching the history of Signor Paolo Soprani BY Sean Quinn
Thanks for all the kind comments and thanks to Martin for posting the original link to my article. I got most of the information off the web, some from talking to various box-freaks
Ceolachan - I understand from postings on the IrishBox group that Paolo Soprani left his estate between two daughters. One got the farm and made good with it. The other got the accordion business and let it fade away !
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by seanquinn
Re: Researching the history of Signor Paolo Soprani BY Sean Quinn
A Great bit of work, any chance of a Honer one?
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by compaqjohn