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Mel Biggs

Mel Biggs

English diatonic accordion (melodeon) player, folk musician, and online music educator based in Derbyshire

Jul 15, 2026

18:04
I imagine that makes you a much better observer and listener as a player than you would otherwise if you didn't have that experience playing for those dancers.
18:14
Yeah.
18:15
Just before I go into detail about that, specifically the regions of England that got different traditional dances and some are very metronomic.
18:24
I mean, Northwest playing is typified by clogs and very straight lines and usually a big band with lots of drums.
18:32
And it's very, you know, there's kind of.
18:34
It's not a military influence, but these days there's lots of kind of snare drums and that kind of military drumming that goes alongside the Northwest traditions, which come out of the fabric mills and where there was regimentation and a four woman that was there with a whistle.
18:48
So we still see that kind of.

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49:09
Where do you stand on sheet music? Or how do you feel about people that say, I can't use sheet

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