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New Corona BandInstrumentsThese are the instruments we play, with a bit of an explanation of each:
"Big gob" doesn't qualify as an instrument, so Kaz hasn't got a section here. MelodeonThis is a bellows instrument, akin to the accordian and concertina. The two-row diatonic melodeon that Penni uses can play in two major keys, D and G. They will also play in other keys, notably Em and Am, but A is also possible.Penni plays a Hohner 2 row or a Salterelle for bookings and occasionally a Castagnari. Appalachian dulcimerThis isn't the dulcimer made famous by Coleridge in his poem about Kubla Khan, but a relative from the American Appalachian mountains. It's a diatonic fretted instrument - that is, it doesn't have a fret at every semitone interval like a guitar, but at the intervals of a normal Western diatonic scale. Clif plays six-string instruments with the strings tuned in three pairs, which, due to the layout of the frets, will only play in one key. Clif uses two, one tuned to D and the other to G (which, eagle-eyed readers will note, are the same keys as Penni's melodeons).GuitarPeter uses a normal hollow-bodied six-string acoustic guitar in standard tuning, fitted with a piezo-electric pickup for use with amplification.For Mike's occasional guitar work, he uses a Variax modelling guitar which can simulate the sound of various acoustic and electric guitars. BassBoth the bass guitar and the double bass are tuned to the same notes as the bottom four strings of a guitar but an octave down. The scale length of a bass guitar is 34", while a 3/4 double bass has a scale length of 41". Mike uses a NS WAV-4 electric upright bass (a solid-bodied version of a 3/4 double bass) and a fretless customised Warwick Thumb bass guitar.
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