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Well, I enjoyed that!
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Thanks Erwan,
Hope you can read English as my French is not very good. I am a fan of French musette but am not a very good player. I first learned to play by ear listening to Jean Segurel playing Auvergnat folk music, and eventually started to play standard musette tunes after my playing improved. I studied the Ferrero method, which is not popular at all here in the UK, because the thumb is not used.The players who most inspired me were Aimable, Azzola, Verchuren, Edouard Duleu, Louis Corchia, Joss Basselli and Gus Viseur. I also liked the style of Jacky Noguez and his brother Claude Nouyes, but I could never work out their method of playing. There were many other players I liked, but almost all of them are no longer with us. Unfortunately I haven't kept up to date with the modern players, and now know very little about the present day French accordion scene.
After a bad injury to my right hand many years ago I eventually had to concentrate on the simpler stuff, for example as played by Aimable, Pierre Parachini, and Augusto Baldi. My right hand is now almost OK, but the injury caused me to lose some flexibility and my playing has suffered.
I watched this film quite a few years ago in the UK with English subtitles. There was a time when I could have dated it by Marcel Azzola's toupee, but I cannot remember when the film was now.
Denis Tuveri, who features in the film, was a sad loss in 2009. I used to have some photocopies of his handwritten music scores, but he played at a such a speed that I struggled with his tunes.
I followed the link to your site and like your playing very much. You have obviously joined Monsieur Galliano in what appears to be a move away from French towards Italian instruments.
When I first started playing 30 years ago very few French professional players played anything other than Cavagnolo, Fratelli Crosio, Piermaria, and Maugein. I appreciate that Piermaria and Crosio were actually Italian companies, but did they perhaps have factories in France?
Loved the film, and thanks again.
Hope you can read English as my French is not very good. I am a fan of French musette but am not a very good player. I first learned to play by ear listening to Jean Segurel playing Auvergnat folk music, and eventually started to play standard musette tunes after my playing improved. I studied the Ferrero method, which is not popular at all here in the UK, because the thumb is not used.The players who most inspired me were Aimable, Azzola, Verchuren, Edouard Duleu, Louis Corchia, Joss Basselli and Gus Viseur. I also liked the style of Jacky Noguez and his brother Claude Nouyes, but I could never work out their method of playing. There were many other players I liked, but almost all of them are no longer with us. Unfortunately I haven't kept up to date with the modern players, and now know very little about the present day French accordion scene.
After a bad injury to my right hand many years ago I eventually had to concentrate on the simpler stuff, for example as played by Aimable, Pierre Parachini, and Augusto Baldi. My right hand is now almost OK, but the injury caused me to lose some flexibility and my playing has suffered.
I watched this film quite a few years ago in the UK with English subtitles. There was a time when I could have dated it by Marcel Azzola's toupee, but I cannot remember when the film was now.
Denis Tuveri, who features in the film, was a sad loss in 2009. I used to have some photocopies of his handwritten music scores, but he played at a such a speed that I struggled with his tunes.
I followed the link to your site and like your playing very much. You have obviously joined Monsieur Galliano in what appears to be a move away from French towards Italian instruments.
When I first started playing 30 years ago very few French professional players played anything other than Cavagnolo, Fratelli Crosio, Piermaria, and Maugein. I appreciate that Piermaria and Crosio were actually Italian companies, but did they perhaps have factories in France?
Loved the film, and thanks again.
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