In July 2004 I acquired a Wheatstone English, 48 button, rosewood, serial number 31488 which has a lovely clear tone. July 2006 I acquired an Wheatstone, metal ended Aeola 56 button extended treble, serial number 27566. I have been completely addicted to the concertina ever since. I play mostly Irish style tunes and try to emulate the melody play of a fiddle rather than the very chordal play common on the anglo. I do try to pick up as many different ideas as I can though :-) Currently falling in love with the English 3/2 hornpipes.
The server that hosts the Montreal Tunebook (for free - thanks Gord Fisch!) ran a security audit that really didn't like me using the unix abcm2ps behind the scenes. I rewrote the site to offload that part to a different computer that doesn't complain. Seems to be running smoothly at the moment. At least, I haven't had any complaints, either from people using the site or from Gord :-) The abcjs java rendering engine is really quite impressive. Very easy to use despite almost no documentation that I could find. The only problem I found so far with it is if you annotate notes A3A as A>A in the editor, the greater than sign confuses it.
I should be arriving about 10:00pm tonight. I hope there is music still going on then :-) Does anyone know if the new venue has wi-fi?
I plan to be there this year too. Haven't seen the new venue yet but I heard good things from those who were there last year.
I had planned to go to the 2010 NESI but couldn't at the last minute, I've had withdrawal symptoms ever since. I took a look at the new place online and it looks very promising. I have September next year pencilled in already.
I would have to agree with L'Albatroce on this. Living in Montreal it is amazing how completely bilingual people who have grown up here are. Many have not a trace of accent in either language. A very common feature of any conversation is a peppering of words and expressions of both languages.
Who are playing predominantly Irish music on EC?