Frozen Songbook: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack | 
@callunakeep I got a songbook out of the library—just for you!
... Okay, not really, I‘ve been wanting to learn one of the songs in there for a while. No, not ‘Let it Go‘. I was after ‘Frozen Heart‘ — I‘m just more into husky male choruses than angsty sopranos. So sue me.
And that there beside the book is my tenor English Concertina. 💜
callunakeep OMG! I love the color of the wood, your concertina is beautiful!! 😍 And I can totally relate to the husky male chorus thing!!🤓 I much prefer the tone of my concert uke over the soprano uke, I only purchased the soprano because it fits under the seat in planes!😂🤣 6y
callunakeep Is the concertina hard to learn? How long have you played And what drew you to the instrument? My child-sized hands and T-Rex arms drew me to the ukulele! 😂🤣 6y
LShelby @callunakeep I was looking for something to accompany my singing that wasn‘t strings, because my regular song circle already had strings. I saw a description in a catalog and said ‘sounds cool‘ and decided to order a learner instrument from a reputable store with a solid returns policy. I‘d never seen one before! That was 20ish years ago. 6y
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LShelby The English concertina was designed to be a violin replacement (mine‘s a tenor, so its a viola replacement ). It‘s pretty easy to learn to play melodies, and easy to read music for. Close harmonies, and basic chords are also pretty easy, but as an accompanying instrument I probably would have been better off with a guitar. Only I fell in love, so... 🤷🏻♀️ 6y
callunakeep @LShelby I always wanted to play guitar and took lessons a couple times but my tiny hands and short arms were always a problem —I buy children‘s gloves in the winter 😝— I saw the concert ukulele two years ago at a guitar shop and fell in love with its size and the tattoo design on it and bought it on a whim. I have been practicing fairly regularly for over a year and am still very much a beginner ... 6y
callunakeep ...but I just LOVE IT and I don‘t care if I will never be a virtuoso! 😂🤣. I cannot yet sing and play at the same time. 😝. I can rhythm on one Stones song while my bf plays lead and sings on his guitar and I can play “Let it be” by the Beatles ... other than these two songs I still mostly play along with tutorials and make up my own lyric free melodies. But I enjoy the hell out of it and that is all that matters to me!🤓 6y
LShelby @callunakeep I agree that loving it is the most important thing. I make up accompaniments for my songs, practice them until I can sing and play at the same time—but then as soon as I try show off to someone my fingers go all wrong. 😝 6y
callunakeep @LShelby 😂🤣SAME!! Any audience member older than three years old and suddenly I cant find the simplest of chords!!😂🤓🤣 6y
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