Re: Future of the Marine Band



Jack Ely wrote:
> Our club bought about 12 of these "reversed" 280's from Hohner - they found 
> them in their archives somewhere and we got wind of it. The curious thing was 
> they all had the slide turned around. (I.e., the button was on the low note 
> end). Well, Dick Smith quickly reversed this and we had a dozen brand new 280's 

Irish traditional players often reverse the slide so that the ornamentation
goes the same way as on a fiddle, i.e. down rather than up.

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I swear I'll never drink no more if this is my reward.




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