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"Pick Up Your Wounded" is our first recording; a collection of Barn Dance / Ceilidh tunes which were primarily recorded to let people hear what we sounded like before booking us. However, we've also sold them to folks who just enjoy listening to the band. Good for jiggin' round the house or varnishing the cat to. Those with good eyesight may notice that this is our old line up, but the sound and "feel" of our music remains the same. Unfortunately, the cassette is now unavailable but......
Yes we've reached the 21st century so you can now get this recording on a new fangled CD. n.b. Unfortunately the wax cylinders and 78's are now out of stock. You can't get the bees you know! This CD is hugely underpriced at: £8.00 + £1.50 p&p. For international postage costs please email me |
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"Pluck 'n' Squeeze, Our Tunes and Songs Volume 1": 23 original tunes and songs on the history of the Lancashire Cotton Industry. Fully notated for the D/G Melodeon and chorded for Guitar and Banjo by Maggie Moore and Stan Bloor.
This book is firstly a collection of the tunes we have written and the nineteenth century Lancashire poems we have set to music, but it also features the same tunes fully notated for the D/G Melodeon with helpful tips and hints for melodeon improvers. These notated tunes are really a follow on to "Maggie's Melodeon" a tutor book for beginners to improvers. Good happy rousing tunes and thoughtful songs. Can come with an optional tutor CD for Melodeon students. (Note: The optional tutor CD is not suitable for non-melodeon players, those of nervous disposition, or anyone with any residual hearing. Please keep out of reach of children and morris men!) This book is an ideal present and/or weapon and is available at the popular price of: Book with the Tutor CD: £13.99 + £2.00 p&p Just the Book: £10.99 + £2.00 p&p For international postage costs please email me |
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"Maggie's Melodeon Tutor Book":The culmination of all Maggie's experience teaching the D/G two row Melodeon. This book is designed for absolute beginners and improvers. It covers everything you need to know from the time you first pick up the instrument until you are confident in playing both treble and bass. By then you will also have a number of traditional tunes that you can start going to sessions with!
The exercises and tunes are all fully notated for both the Treble and Bass of the Melodeon and the chapters are written in plain English, are explicit and easily understood. This book comes complete with a 57 track tutor CD with the exercises and tunes played slowly and to speed.
Please note: We accept no responsibility for any loss of hearing or sanity caused to family members by you learning the Melodeon :-) Book with the Tutor CD: £13.99 + £2.00 p&p For international postage costs please email me |
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"More Maggie's Melodeon Tutor Book":Coming soon! The second volume of Maggie's Melodeon the highly successful tutor book. This one is aimed at "improvers" and cover such thorny topics as crossing rows, playing in key other than D or G, ornamentation, dynamics and lift and counter melodies and harmonies.
As in the first book the exercises and tunes are all fully notated for both the Treble and Bass of the Melodeon and the chapters are written in plain English, are explicit and easily understood. This book comes complete with a tutor CD with the exercises and tunes played slowly and to speed.
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To order, or if you need further information contact: Stan by e-mail stanb@bloor.keme.co.uk. Payment methods in order of speed are:
Paypal invoice (good, secure and quick for UK orders and probably the only way for international orders). Simply email me at stanb@bloor.keme.co.uk, tell me what you want. I'll then send you a PayPal invoice, when I get your payment the items will be posted by return. (For more information on PayPal click on the icon above.) or Personal cheque (uk pounds only). Unfortunately, I will have to wait for the cheque to clear before posting the items. Other methods may be possible but you'll need to email me |
These tracks are taken from Pick Up Your Wounded and are therefore of our old line up. (See new line up on the home page). The addition of Jill and Peter filled out the sound but the overall feel, sound and bounce of the music is very similar.
To listen you will need Real Audio Player. (If you prefer not to use Real Audio, see below) You can download the player free by clicking here. I haven't succeeded in mastering Real Audio yet so I'm sorry about the quality! Click below to hear the band.
Pluck 'n' Squeeze playing Waiting for the Wagon and Dennington Bell (Real Audio)
For those of you who haven't got a Real Audio player or can't be bothered downloading it, you can listen to this short snippet (20 or so seconds) in .WAV format. Most browsers will play this straight off. The quality is at the moment slightly better than I can produce with Real Audio, but this is down to my inability to work the program properly. This file is 230K in size and will take 2-3 minutes to load. So click on the link below and go and make a coffee.
Pluck 'n' Squeeze playing Dennington Bell (.WAV Format)
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