Guitars on Birelli Vienna DVD?

Elliot

A veritable Feast of the Gods, to be sure. Would anyone be able to give us an idea of what make guitars people were using?


In the meantime, here's my thoughts:

Awards -

Muhammed Ali Award - Lagrene, floatin' and stingin', a true monster.
Most Old World Sound - Dorado Shmitt (that D hole!)
Effortless Clarity Award- Stochelo, fingers crawling like spiders
Best Tremolo - DeBarre beat them all here
Bright Charisma - Tchavolo, no one enjoys playing more!
Dark Charisma - Debarre, a stare like a panther
Strongest Attack - DeBarre, I'm really impressed by this guy live!
What the Hell Was That Award - Galliano's Accordion -What, all buttons??

MichaelHorowitz

I think we should also add this award:

The "I did it my way" Award: Sylvan Luc, who took on the Gypsies with a nyoln string, killing fingerstyle chops, and rest stroke free flatpicking!

SoulShade

Si Tu Savais and everything Galliano played on are my current favorites.

Bohemian

Another vote for Sylvan Luc... outstanding

Gallianos accordion I believe was a Victoria
CBA

Chromatic Button Accordeon.. the standard in Europe as is the Piano Accoprdion here

nwilkins

I don't think you could call it the standard in Europe - although the CBA is definitely the most common instrument in musette circles, I believe that the piano accordion is used more often in Eastern Europe. Place like Germany I'm not so sure about, although I know that the accordionist from the Titi Winterstein Quintett plays/played piano accordion. Ionica Minune plays piano accordion on Tchavolo Schmitt's Alors...Voila

ViejoVato

Lest we forget ... The Irish, brits and scots who play button accordions that have 2 rows (usually) in which the rows are tuned either a semi-tone apart (b, c) or (D, D#) or tuned in 4ths (c - f) or even have 3 rows like the cajun players ...

I have an old Hohner Club model whic has 2 rows tuned c & F with a smaller 3rd row where all the accidenrtals are located ...

The interesting to me is that if you play diatonic harmonica you can follow the same in-out patterns on these button boxes ...

Cheers.
miller
www.dfsw.net

Bohemian

Cajuns play 1 row 4 stop instruments primarily in C, next Bb then D rarely A and G
3 Row button accordions are used in Zydeco with the most common in F.Bb,Eb then GCF...
Some do use single row, Bb and C...mostly by Creole players..


Irish box players use the B/C developed in the 50's and the C#/D which was used in the 30's and has seen a recent surge in interest
C/C# is used by B/C players to play a half step up and D/D# is used by C#/D players for the same reason..
the Famous Joe Cooley used D/D# and so does Mairtin O'Connnor
There are many B/C players following in the footsteps of Paddy O'Brien
and as to C/C# this was actually very common in Scotland and Endgland pre WWII
C#/D is used by many players for the in and out feel of a melodeon
and Mairtin O'Connor takes it another step farther on his CHattterbox CD
D/C# was also used extensively but now by a few including American player Joe Derrane.
Sharon Shannon plays them all

Elliot

Hi -

Just for the record, I think I might have meant 'vibrato' instead of tremolo, although everyone seems to know what I intended - whatever you call 'wiggling your fingers on the fretboard'.

http://www.vibroworld.com/magnatone/vibrato.html

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klaatu

By the way, that's "Vienne," not "Vienna." Vienne is in France (not that I'm so smart - I had to look it up).

frater

As for the guitars: Bireli plays a Dupont VR, Stochelo a Leo Eimers, Debarre a Signature "Angelo Debarre" Dell'Arte, Hono what is sometimes referred to as a "Sonora" . Not sure if Tchavolo is playing a Dupont but I guess so...

valdae

Debarre gets my vote as one of the most interesting players on the DVD. That right hand of his was a blur during portions of his performance. His tone was killer!