Chords for Jackie 30 Button English Concertina Versus Lachenal 48 Button

A few days ago I did a video about how the Jackie Constance in this one here compares to a full 48
button _ [Ab] version of the instrument and [N] I now have my own 48 button version of the instrument which
I'm going to show you.
It's in this rather nice leather case which I'm going to undo.
_ _ _ _ _ I think the original catch is long since gone so now we have this leather strap.
_ Open it up and inside we have this _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
case out of the way.
_ Even the case is a thing of beauty isn't it? _ _ _ _ _ _
So what we've got here is [Bbm] a Lationelle _ 48 button [F] English concertina _ [Ab] and I was talking about
those extra [A] buttons the other _ day and _ same _ [Bb] _ [Ab] way. _
So there they are side by side.
So [C] straight away [Ab] you can see the physical size of the two instruments.
The Jackie
is quite a bit bigger _ than the Lationelle.
I'll give you the actual measurements.
The Lationelle is four and a half [N] inches long. _ _
That one closed up [Ab] and the Jackie closed up, it's not quite closed up at the [A] moment,
is [G] _ seven and a half so [N] it's quite a bit longer. _ _ _ _ _ _
The diameter, if that's the correct term, across here if you like, _ well the Jackie is
seven and a quarter across here and the Lationelle is [G] six and a quarter so not so much of a difference
there.
Now I thought that the weight [Ab] of these two [G] instruments was going to be massively different.
In actual fact the Jackie is [Abm] a little bit heavier and the Lationelle is a little bit
three and three eighths pounds so almost [N] three and a half pounds and this Lationelle is just
a fraction under three pounds at [Db] two and seven eighths [D] pounds and [Am] it's a really nice weight,
[G] lovely to [Ab] hold.
[G] I'd always imagined [Ab] that these vintage concertinas with their wooden ends
would be [G] really heavy but this one isn't and if I just open it out, just [Am] playing loads of open it _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] got these rather lovely bellows which [Ab] you'll probably see in better days, there's a few
stains and things but you know you're going to get this with something that's well over 100 years old
[G] and _ I [Ab] did try one with metal ends _ which was over a thousand pounds more than this and I actually
didn't like it, I found it very shrill and piercing.
This one's got a lovely soft tone
which I'll demonstrate in a moment.
If you look at the buttons here, quite interesting,
they're made of [A] bone I think [Abm] and the middle two rows as we've discussed before, those are the
notes, the white [N] notes on the piano and then the top and bottom rows, although the colour's faded
a bit, those are the kind of black notes on the piano so it's you know it's pretty logical.
_ It's got five [Abm] fold bellows and one thing that I talked about in my previous [D] video was the air
button, _ apparently _ most [A] if not all of these vintage concertinas, [G] the English ones anyway,
don't have an air button.
[Bb] I read somewhere that you're [Ab] supposed to plan your playing so that you
end up before you put the thing away with the bellows closed, so you plan your piece of music
so that the [N] bellows end up being closed.
I'm not sure that I could always do that but it [D] doesn't
have an air button, just playing it _ _ [Fm] opens and closes [Ab] the bellows, that's quite an interesting
thing isn't it?
It's been refurbished, if you look [G] in there you can probably see the new white pads
and the guy opened it up yesterday and it's just amazing inside, it's so clean and beautiful
inside, all the original labels and these things, I mean [Bb] they're crazy money really _ _
but they are quite beautiful inside and [Ab] I'm fascinated to know who's played this over the
years, of course I'll never know, that's part of the fun I guess.
_ [Dbm] I'm now going to play the same
[N] piece of music, it's going to be the subject of my next _ tutorial if you like, I'm going to play the
same piece of music on these [G] two concertinas and you'll hear the difference.
[D] I still love the sound
of the jacky, I _ did wonder [G] if I got a more expensive [D] _
concertina whether I'd [Ab] ever play the
jacky again but I still like it. _
One thing you'll notice straight away is that the Lachanelle, the
vintage model is a lot quieter, _ it's very easy to [Bb] play, I [C] mean [B] the bellows open [Ab] much easier than the
jacky, but it's very very easy to play. _
Anyway I'm going to finish this up just [Bbm] by playing the same
piece on both [Db] instruments so you can hear the difference in the sound.
Obviously this has got
[Ab] all the extra notes and it's got the top octave as well which I'm not sure I'll ever play.
The main
reason for buying this was I [N] just wanted something with a different tone and maybe those extra top
notes I might use one day, it's just one of those things you know it's like if you're a musician you
[G] walk into a shop and something talks to you and you end up [Ab] walking out with it, it's happened to me a
few times in my life but [N] I'm really pleased with it.
So let's have a listen to this tune.
The tune
is In the Bleak Midwinter which is not particularly appropriate today because it's a 5th of September
beautiful sunny day [G] but it is a nice piece of music and as I say I'll [N] play it first of all on the jacky
_ _ okay this is the first button and then I'll play it on the Lationelle and apologies if I'm saying
that name wrong I think it's I think it's correct but if it isn't I'm sure somebody will tell me.
[E] _ [G] _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ [Em] _ [F] _ [A] _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ [B] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ [G] _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ So that's the tune on the jacky let's play the same tune on the Lationelle.
You'll notice I'll
change the bellows direction far more often than this because it runs out of puff a lot quicker
than the jacky does _ because obviously the bellows have smaller capacity and because it's older I'm
[Em] guessing.
_ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ [D] _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ [Em] _ [F] _ [Am] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ [B] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ So it's still taking a lot of getting used to at this early stage and the most [B] important
thing I'm noticing [A] as I say is this running out of puff thing because [G] the bellows are smaller and
looser it's much easier to play than the jacky [D] in some respects but I'm [N] finding it hard to adjust
to that and I like the sound of both of them so they'll both be be used a lot but it definitely
gives me a different softer tone as the one that I'm used to and it's just apart from anything else
it's just a nice thing to own isn't it.
Anyway now you've seen and heard the difference you can
see the physical [G] difference between the two instruments [Db] I hope