TradLessons.com - The Drunken Gauger (MIDI Anglo Concertina)

[tradlessons]

The Wakker MIDI concertina has a control module that has a MIDI output. The instrument itself makes no sound and communicates wirelessly with the control module.

[GermanDulcimer]

Sounds good for professionals... it's the folk version of that, what a keyboard seems to be for a pianist ;:)

[GermanDulcimer]

uhmm... how do you connect a concertina to a synthesizer module? It doesn't really have a pickup does it? Anyway, sounds funny. Thanks for uploading :)

[chirritutiplen]

This tune is lovely! I like set dances so much, and this is one very good example, thank you for this!

[redhairedlad]

Thanks for demonstrating the Wakker! It's my dream box. Can you play diatonically in D/A on the same box, just by changing the synth?

[tradlessons]

Yes, you can pretty much do anything you want since its just a MIDI controller. I have patches simulating a Bb/F, an A/E, and a G/D

[dancerjono]

well, lovely playin i must say, how ever, my set dance last year was the drunken gauger and this isn't the tune, im not sure what this is but it isn'r rhe iorish set dance drunken gauger

i was wondering what version of the tune this is

jono

[Pgidley]

Actually, it is the Drunken Gauger. You are wrong.

[dancerjono]

errrm excuse me, it says in the description that it is the SET DANCE, well i am a champion irish dancer, who had the Drunken gauger as my set dance last year and placed second in the regional championships with it and this is a completely different tune to the one that i danced to. so don't tell me that i'm wrong.

[dancerjono]

this may be A VERSION of the tune but NOT the irish set dance, just ask any champ dancer and they will tell you, if you search for drunken gauger and find a video of a dancer doing it you will clearly see that the tunes are completely different.

so sorry for stating the fact that this isn't the tune that we dance to.

its not as if i was being rude to the player, who is very good, i was just commenting that the tunes are different

[fiddlinshim]

This is the tune that Bobby Casey called 'The Drunken Gauger". It is characteristic of traditional musics that sometimes more than one tune will get called by the same name. There's really no point in arguing about it. Both sides can well be right.

[AaronShaunBrennan]

I have never heard a concertina like this!! I don't understand in your description what kind of Concertina this is. Is there a website I can go to to read about this Concertina? Please write me back. Thank You. Great Video!

[tradlessons]

The instrument is a Wakker AMC-30 wireless MIDI Anglo Concertina talking to a Roland JV-1080 synthesizer module.

The AMC-30 plays exactly like a standard anglo concertina, except it that is has no reeds and makes no sound on its own. Instead, it has a wireless control box that puts out MIDI data for the notes and bellows pressure that can be sent to a synthesizer or MIDI sequencing program on a PC or Macintosh.

[AaronShaunBrennan]

Thank You for explaining. How long have you owned it, How many years can it go without re-pare? Thank You for your time.

-Aaron

[michaeleskin]

I've only had it for a couple of weeks, its extremely well built, essentially the same as the Wakker standard anglo, but instead of reeds, there are small contacts at the level pivot points that are touched when the button is pressed. Its a very simple system and quite elegantly designed. Search in Google for Wakker MIDI Concertina and you will find the link. Wakker warranties the instrument for 5 years. Cheers, Michael

[michaeleskin]

Aaron, also, just to be absolutely clear, the instrument makes no sound on its own, the tone is completely dependent on what you connect the instrument to. In this video, its connected to a Roland synthesizer module, with a MIDI interface to a PC, it could also be connected to a software synthesizer program like Gigasampler or Native Instruments Kontakt 3.