Makes a fun polka! If anyone's interested, I can clean up and post the sheet music. If you play it fast enough it's difficult to recognize at first, which I think makes it even sillier when you get to the chorus. I play a 30 button Anglo. I can add in the Gary Coover notation if you need it.

Wheatstone concertina For Sale: Wheatstone English Treble Concertina. 60-key, extended treble model. Serial Number 22862 (between 1898 and 1901). 6-fold bellows, with optional wrist straps. Purchased from The Button Box January 2, 2020. Hardly played...I'm an Anglo player and never got the hang of the English. I can provide original receipt from The Button Box. Inclu...

The Widow’s Party started out as a poem by Rudyard Kipling. The Widow, of course, is Queen Victoria, the Widow at Windsor. Back then, imperial powers like Britain would invade less developed countries, sacrificing the lives of locals and their own young soldiers to satisfy their rulers’ grandiose fantasies. How nice that that doesn’t happen anymore. Peter Bellamy put a tune to t...

Here’s a couple of G major hornpipes I’ve been working out with my newly acquired Edgley Heritage C/G Anglo. I found the Ulster Hornpipe in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland. Surprisingly, it’s not on The Session at all. It’s online at the Traditional Tune Archive here – https://tunearch.org/wiki/Ulster_Hornpipe but with three typos in the ABC (three high Cs are bumped down an octa...

Susan Conger’s reel “The Gale” has long been popular in our local music-for-contra-dance jam, but I’ve been stymied trying to play it on a G/D Anglo concertina. I’ve just acquired this new-to-me Edgley Heritage C/G Anglo (from a posting on concertina.net – thanks Parker!), and it has the bellows capacity and reed sensitivity to finally let me play the tune properly. So, here’s t...