About the Book
The Jeffries Duet is an exceedingly rare type of concertina, with a keyboard many find to be "logic-defying" and "indecipherable". But no more! This tutor will show you how to make sense of your Jeffries Duet and quickly be able to play a wonderful variety of tunes with full accompaniments. Invented in the late 1890's by English concertina maker Charles Jeffries, the Jeffries Duet is the ideal "portable pub piano" for playing and accompanying folk, classical, music hall, Gilded-Age, Tin Pan Alley, church hymns and old popular songs from days gone by.This tutor includes over 60 tunes along with a unique tablature system showing both standard music notation along with note pitches in abc notation. Every tune also has a Button Map showing exactly which buttons are needed to play that particular tune. Plus, many tunes include QR code links to videos so you can see and hear how they are played.Now, you too can recreate the delightful fairground organ sound of the Jeffries Duet at full steam with "octaves in the right and fistfuls of chords in the left"! THE TUNES: A Mighty Fortress is Our God, After You've Gone, Alfred Montmarquette's 6/8, Amazing Grace, American Boot Dance, American Patrol, Angeline the Baker (C), Angeline the Baker (D), Auld Donald, Auld Lang Syne, Battle of the Somme, Beer That Tastes Like Beer, Blue-Eyed Stranger, Bourrée in E minor, Christ the Lord is Risen Today, Country Gardens, Cowman's Prayer, Cross of Inverness, Da Slockit Light, Dearest Dickie, Eleanor Plunkett, The Entertainer, Flow Gently Sweet Afton, Frere Jacques, Fur Elise, Furusato, Galopede, Gärdebylåten, Gathering Peascods, Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You, Gurnard Waltz, Hell Ship, How Great Thou Art, I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside, In Dulci Jubilo, In the Bleak Midwinter, Indian Queen, Kate's Rambles, King Pharim, Kojo no Tsuki, La Partida, Land of Hope & Glory, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Liberty Bell March, Loch Lomond, Logan Water, Londonderry Air, Man in the Moon, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Merry Month of May, Minuet in D Minor, Minuet in G, Miss Smith's Morris, Mudgee Waltz, My Old Dutch, My Wild Irish Rose, Nottingham Castle, Oh Susanna, Old Magnolia, Orkney Rope Waltz, Pavane, Peter's Peerie Boat, Poor Old Horse (C), Poor Old Horse (G), Pop Goes the Weasel, Portsmouth (Setting 1), Portsmouth (Setting 2), Procrastination Waltz, Quaker's Wife, Queen's Delight, Red Wing, Rights of Man, Rose of the Redlands, Salmontails Up the Water, Shenandoah, St. James Infirmary, Star of the County Down, They Needed a Songbird in Heaven, Three Around Three, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Under the Anheuser Busch, Variations on Shepherd's Hey, Weeping, Sad and Lonely, Whaleman's Lament, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can't Forget, Young Collins .
