Nice to read some positive response.
Here you have hit the point!Arnold wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:50 am It is the ‘melodeon’ that I refer to, yes. Not so much emulating the sound as imparting a similar drive to the rhythm. So bass/chord patterns, become tongue slap/release and so on. I’m getting there with Jigs, Polkas, Marches etc. The biggest challenge rhythmically has been hornpipes.
That is exactly what I meant.
It looks like you are on the right path.
Different tunings never are a must. They always are a can. They can enlarge your versatility. But I know good players as well who do not want to change from Richter to anything else - as far as concerning diatonics. It is the same with chromatic players who do not want to play anything else than a standard solo tuned chrom in C / C#.Arnold wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:50 am I’m fairly settled on 10 hole richter. I’ve tried others, but I don’t fancy having to tune all those reeds!.. Of course, there is still the missing 6th problem but other folk instruments have even greater limitations. There are many popular English session tunes that omit this note fortunately, although I do have a neat solution based on one of the designs on this site (thanks to Brendan)
They would be disturbed in their deeply internalised breath pattern and muscle memory. They prefer to practise as long as it takes to manage it with a Richter respectively a standard chrom in C, before they would learn and get used to anything different and would have to change between several systems all the time. It depends on personal preferences and most effective individual learning and practise techniques.
Here it is me to have a question which you maybe can answer for me:Arnold wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:50 am It is the ‘melodeon’ that I refer to, yes. Not so much emulating the sound as imparting a similar drive to the rhythm. So bass/chord patterns, become tongue slap/release and so on. I’m getting there with Jigs, Polkas, Marches etc. The biggest challenge rhythmically has been hornpipes.
I did not catch the rhythmical difference between a hornpipe and the other sqare beats (even meters). What is the the very point that makes a hornpipe? What are its typical features compared to e.g. a reel, polka, march? And what about the original / former hornpipes noted in 3/2, 3/4, 6/2 or even others?
I am referring to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornpipe
I could not yet hear the difference.
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triona