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dropping in. I hope that I have provided something of
interest to you somewhere in my little corner of this
"New-fangled medium"! You will find
the page no. at the bottom of the page Please note that "External links" are completely outwith my control. If your patience hasn't totally run out before you reach my "Favourite Links" on P10, you can speed to that page from any other within the site, by simply scrolling to the "Site Navigator" which you will find near the end of each page. Then simply click on "Favourite Links" (But of course you understood that already, didn't you?) Now - read on.................. |
First: a little about me My name is Stuart Thomson. (Well I said
"A little"! |
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My main interests
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My interest in the accordion My parents were both musical, my father played accordion, my mother played piano. Christmas1960 - I
received my first accordion from a certain Mr. S. Claus. "Yippeee!" I thought. After a few moments, my next thought was: "..wait a minute...what's an accordion...?" Well, I was only 3 and-a-half years old! "Unusual
present" I thought. After all, I couldn't play it! That first accordion was a red, 12 Bass HOHNER STUDENT model, similar to the one pictured on the right. |
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I can remember Saturday
mornings involving a 20 mile round trip to Cumnock for my
lesson from the late Bobby Adamson. Bobby, a former Muirkirk man himself, was a
highly respected teacher and composer. |
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of 1967, the accordion was "relegated" to
taking a back seat as far as I was concerned - well, to
be more precise, it was actually placed case and all in a
cupboard. It was pretty much forgotten about for around 3
years. When it finally saw the light of day again, it was being "traded-in" against its replacement - wait for it - a portable cassette recorder. I bet you can spot the similarities instantly...............no, maybe not! I have great difficulty with that too - now! Such were the complexities of youth! (You know, knowing everything and never ever needing to ask a question of your elders -anyway, what could they possibly know?) |
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| Moving ahead hastily to 1974, I "took the notion" of the accordion again. This was the year I became the proud owner of my first "full-size" 120 bass accordion, a magnesium framed Hohner Atlantic IVN Musette. |
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The Atlantic was rather short-lived, being replaced in 1977 with a wooden structured Corelli Universal, pictured left - and modelled by a particularly cool looking long-haired layabout - no, sorry, I meant youth! (The Corelli I still have.........the looks however.....well, I reckon that's another story altogether!) |
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the world of recording was in 1976 when I was 19 years
young. I still had my Atlantic. (You remember the era, pink shirts, floral ties, flared trousers, "platform sole" shoes ......oh yes - and sprained ankles!.... .......not that the two could have been in any way related....... .........anyway, back to the recording, which came about through an acquaintance of mine, dating back to 1967 (yes, go to the top of the maths class - but only if you had worked out that I was age 10). He was a "well
known face" around Ayrshire and beyond, a shepherd
by the name of John Loch. It was compered by Alasdair Gillies. The artiste list for the programme included:
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Fast Fwd
to 2003:
Let's play "Spot the Morino"
No, to be
serious, the accordions in the above image range in years
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