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This thread has been fantastic, there is nothing I love better than learning new instruments. I go to school for music education and I play the double bass in the symphony during the school year, so summer is the perfect time to learn new instruments for pleasure. I bought a beautiful dulcimer off of craigslist for $40: I put some new strings on and it plays like a dream mostly- there seems to be something off with the whole step frets. When I have my fingers placed too high up, the notes tend to get a bit strangled, but when they're closer to the bottom of the fret it sounds fine. Is this something I can do anything about and repair, or should I just focus on placing my fingers closer to the bottom of the fret? also, someone just posted this: http://anchorage.craigslist.org/msg/2496101790.html -is this a reasonable price for a Moog theremin? I kind of feel like I need one of those in my life. At this point I'm having a hard time choosing between a theremin and a concertina.
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What I'm really wanting to play is the bandoneon (I got to play Cuatro Estaciones Porteņas in a string ensemble and I fell in love with Piazzolla's music), but I know that's way out of my price range right now, since I'm not really prepared to pay $2000+. I'm thinking that a duet concertina might be the next best thing for tango, since (I think?) it's chromatic, but frankly I'm kinda guessing.
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Jul 16, 2011 06:46
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The stamp inside says "Here, Inc.", and the lady I bought it from said that she bought it around 30 years ago in Minnesota. Thank you for all of the concertina/bandoneon information, by the way, you've given me a really good starting point (and gotten me a bit more optimistic).
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Jul 16, 2011 08:05
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I think I may have found what I'm looking for: http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-F-Lange-German-Concertina-Accordion-Band-Union-/140576304957?pt=Keyboards_MIDI&hash=item20bb002f3d#ht_7320wt_952 Think it's worth bidding for? It looks like it's in pretty good shape, and the price is right.
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Jul 18, 2011 19:15
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I did hold off on bidding, I tend to get really excited right when I find something and then calm down and think about it a little more closely (thank you, too, withak). I did sort of think that ebay bando was too good to be true. I submitted my join request to the Yahoo bandoneon group so I can ask there, thanks for the link. Yeah, I know it's good to wait. It took more than a month of solid research and deliberation to settle on my double bass, and I'm very glad I did. I'll calm down about the bandoneon a little bit, and wait until I can find one that is right for me. and then learn the poo poo out if it. a penus fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jul 19, 2011 |
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Jul 19, 2011 01:46
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So, instead of going with the bandoneon this summer, I decided to be boring and buy an instrument that would actually serve me well in school/gigs this semester: The bando is still a future purchase, just not this summer, I guess. I hope an EUB counts as a weird instrument  Thanks to everyone who gave me fantastic information, if anything this thread has made me more excited about exotic instruments.
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