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

Michael Eskin plays the set dance "The Drunken Gauger" on a wireless Wakker AMC-30 MIDI Anglo Concertina connected to a Roland JV-1080 synthesizer module. Once through up to speed using a cello patch, then slowly using a bassoon patch.

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Music

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• setdance
• set
• dance
• MIDI
• anglo
• concertina
• TradLessons.com
• celtic
• instruction
• irish

[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.

[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

[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.

[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 :)

[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.

[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

[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.

[Pgidley]

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

[chirritutiplen]

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