Hi All, Does anyone know any Scottish traditional 4stop single row melodeon music recordings, trucking round Scotland this week I heard some great stuff on "Radio N Gael" but as it was all in Gaelic I could not understand a word the presenter was saying.
I know there is plenty of accordeon stuff, and I all so know Jimmy Shand also played a 3row melodeon, Hope you can help. Ta, Pete.
I have an old LP on the Topic label called 'Melodeon Greats'. All the recordings date from about 1930 to 1950.
Another one, also on Topic, is 'John MacDonald - The Singing Mole-Catcher of Morayshire'. This is mostly singing with melodeon accompaniment, but there are a few tunes as well.
I can't vouch for any of it being 4-stop single row melodeon. The first one features several different players, but much of it sounds like 2- or 3-row instruments. I think John MacDonald plays a single row.
'The Singing Mole-Catcher of Morayshire'??! The mind boggles. I have visions of Scottish Airs accompanied by the gentle thump-squeak of club on mole-skull . . .
He was quite a famous character. Melodeon playing was quite popular in the NE of Scotland in the bothies and the like in the earlier parts of last(20th) century.
They use to pronounce it as "Milodgin" or similar.
"JOHN McDONALD, born 1905. His father was a farmer at Bogrey, Moray, and it was there that John learned many of his songs: from tinkers who slept in the barn, from drovers passing by on the road over the Dava Moors, and from the ploughmen working on his father's farm. He learned to play the melodeon as a boy and at 70 was still playing, singing and repairing melodeons for the local farm-hands."
Hi, mojo -
As a Radio nan Gael listener myself, I think you'll find that a most of the melodeon playing you hear there is on Hohner Gaelic IVs, and Shand Morinos, and Paolo Sopranis and the like. Not that I have a problem with 1 rows, it's just often the feeling that's produced in the performance can remind you of a one row when it's not. However, you may well be astute enough to tell the difference, and I'm not implying that you're not. I haven't been listening regularly recently - so maybe I missed something.
The folk at Radio Scotland are pretty friendly. If you can remember the day and time, give them a ring. They might be able to tell you what they were playing.
I folks, do you have to be Irish to use this site coz im Scottish? Well anyway, who cares, can any one tell me if the have any tapes of the late Iain MacLachlan other than Hebridean Accordion, An Island Heritage and Kings of the button key box, because he is my idol, he was the best button key player in the world, well i think so!! i just wish i could play the button key!!
Scottish Melodeon
Scottish Melodeon
Hi All, Does anyone know any Scottish traditional 4stop single row melodeon music recordings, trucking round Scotland this week I heard some great stuff on "Radio N Gael" but as it was all in Gaelic I could not understand a word the presenter was saying.
I know there is plenty of accordeon stuff, and I all so know Jimmy Shand also played a 3row melodeon, Hope you can help. Ta, Pete.
# Posted on October 29th 2004 by mojo
Re: Scottish Melodeon
I have an old LP on the Topic label called 'Melodeon Greats'. All the recordings date from about 1930 to 1950.
Another one, also on Topic, is 'John MacDonald - The Singing Mole-Catcher of Morayshire'. This is mostly singing with melodeon accompaniment, but there are a few tunes as well.
I can't vouch for any of it being 4-stop single row melodeon. The first one features several different players, but much of it sounds like 2- or 3-row instruments. I think John MacDonald plays a single row.
# Posted on October 29th 2004 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Scottish Melodeon
'The Singing Mole-Catcher of Morayshire'??! The mind boggles. I have visions of Scottish Airs accompanied by the gentle thump-squeak of club on mole-skull . . .
# Posted on October 29th 2004 by kidcharlemagne
Re: Scottish Melodeon
He was quite a famous character. Melodeon playing was quite popular in the NE of Scotland in the bothies and the like in the earlier parts of last(20th) century.
They use to pronounce it as "Milodgin" or similar.
# Posted on October 29th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Scottish Melodeon
re the Singung molecatcher:-
"JOHN McDONALD, born 1905. His father was a farmer at Bogrey, Moray, and it was there that John learned many of his songs: from tinkers who slept in the barn, from drovers passing by on the road over the Dava Moors, and from the ploughmen working on his father's farm. He learned to play the melodeon as a boy and at 70 was still playing, singing and repairing melodeons for the local farm-hands."
See also
http://www.folktrax.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/menus/cassprogs/061.htm
# Posted on October 29th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Scottish Melodeon
Hi, mojo -
As a Radio nan Gael listener myself, I think you'll find that a most of the melodeon playing you hear there is on Hohner Gaelic IVs, and Shand Morinos, and Paolo Sopranis and the like. Not that I have a problem with 1 rows, it's just often the feeling that's produced in the performance can remind you of a one row when it's not. However, you may well be astute enough to tell the difference, and I'm not implying that you're not. I haven't been listening regularly recently - so maybe I missed something.
The folk at Radio Scotland are pretty friendly. If you can remember the day and time, give them a ring. They might be able to tell you what they were playing.
# Posted on October 29th 2004 by kris
Re: Scottish Melodeon
I folks, do you have to be Irish to use this site coz im Scottish? Well anyway, who cares, can any one tell me if the have any tapes of the late Iain MacLachlan other than Hebridean Accordion, An Island Heritage and Kings of the button key box, because he is my idol, he was the best button key player in the world, well i think so!! i just wish i could play the button key!!
Tapadh Leat Ma Tha!!!
# Posted on July 18th 2005 by mjeriskay