🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <WleuicB$Xwv4EwA8@godwit.demon.co.uk>, Bob Goddard
<news001@godwit.demon.co.uk> writes
>x-no-archive: yes
>On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 Tim Willets wrote;
>>In article <VDjO7$AKMGv4EwDv@godwit.demon.co.uk>, Bob Goddard
>><news001@godwit.demon.co.uk> writes
>>>
>>>All we need now is another fiddle and a cello, then we've got a DTP
>>>quartet.
>>
>>Let's see, I can offer:
>>
>>fiddle (and I do mean fiddle, not violin)
>>diatonic accordion
>
><Suspiciously>
>Not a melodeon?
></Suspiciously>

Well, being English I suppose that's what I ought to call the beasts,
but...

<totally OT and even more boring than usual>

A melodeon properly speaking is the variety with one row of buttons and
open mechanism, a diatonic (or "Vienna") accordion is the variety with
more than one row of buttons. As it happens I play both. I tend to say I
play accordions as few people understand "melodeon", and in any case I
regard them as a musical instrument rather than a form of physical
exercise :)

</TOT&B>
>>and I did once play the viola (once was enough).
>
><Suspiciously>
>In G?
></Suspiciously>

All sorts of keys - I was lumbered with^H^H^H^H taught the viola at
school for a couple of years (I'd started on violin but was moved to
viola as I had good enough pitch to play strings without needing to play
a clear melody line to stay in tune). I gave it up for no good reason
other than in my late teens I was heavily into blues/r'n'b.

Another factor was that practising viola parts is very boring - by and
large you're playing harmony parts that have little melodic appeal. I
really must consider getting another one though - it'd be useful.
-- 
Tim Willets