Mick Bramich presents a systematic approach to playing the C/G Anglo concertina, Irish style. Many people buy or acquire an Anglo concertina and find that it is less intuitive to play than it first appears. What is needed is a systematic approach and, at last, here it is.

You don't have to play specifically Irish music to utilize this style; the system employed is one of the most efficient ways of exploiting the peculiar nuances of this instrument and can be applied to any genre. Keys are presented in order of difficulty and all types of tune - including slow airs - are tackled.

The book contains 17 photographs and numerous illustrations and diagrams; 14 reels, 20 jigs, 10 hornpipes and 12 miscellaneous tunes, (56 in total, many with chords), rudiments of music, an extensive bibliography and discography, and a chord chart.

The optional CD contains extracts from each chapter and a selection of the tunes from the book. It is not totally essential that you be able to read musical notation to use this book, but musical notation is used without explanation.

Choosing the Right Instrument

Blank 30 Button Layouts

About the Anglo Concertina

The key of G Major

Some Tips on Air Control

Another Way of Playing G Major

The key of D Major

Scales

The key of A Minor

The key of E Minor

Modulation

The key of D Minor

The key of F Major

The key of B Minor

The key of A Major

The key of G Minor

Decoration of Melodic Lines

The Slow Air

Conclusion and Acknowledgments

Appendix one (a selection of tunes)

Appendix two (other tunings)

Appendix three (chord patterns)

Appendix four (rudiments of music)

Appendix five (dealers and suppliers)

Appendix six (bibliography)

Appendix seven (discography)

INDEX OF TUNES

• Apples in Winter
• The Boys of Bluehill
• Carman's Jig
• Carolan's Welcome
• Christmas Eve
• The Cliffs of Moher
• Cock o' the North
• The Cúil Aodha Jig
• Daniel O'Connell, The Home Ruler
• The Dear Irish Boy
• Drowsy Maggie
• The Dullagen Reel
• The Eavesdropper
• The First House in Connaught
• The Flogging
• The Flowing Tide
• Garrett Barry's Jig
• The Glen of Aherlow
• The Hag with the Money
• Her Mantle so Green
• The Hullichan Jig
• The Humours of Ballycastle
• The Humours of Westport
• I Ne'er Shall Wean Her
• I Wish my Love was in a Mire
• Johnny Leary's Slide
• The Kesh Jig
• The Kinnegad Slashers
• Lannigan's Ball
• Martin Wynne's no. 2
• Mist on the Meadow
• The Morning Star
• Off to California
• Oh, the Britches full of Stitches
• O, Love, Lie Beside Me
• Out on the Ocean
• Paddy Fahey's no. 1
• An Páistín Fionn
• Peggy Levin
• The Pipe on the Hob no. 1
• The Plains of Boyle
• The Pleasures of Home
• Princess Royal
• The Rakes of Kildare
• The Rights of Man
• The Rolling wave
• Sailing into Walpole's Marsh
• Shandon Bells
• The Shannon's Flowery Banks
• The Sixmilebridge
• The Steeplechase
• Sullivan O'Moore's March
• The Tenpenny Bit
• Tomgraney Castle
• The Top of Maol
• The Wheels of the World