Lancashire Accordion Repairs
Telephone: 01772 454328
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Leyland Accordion Club
Accordion tuition in Lancashire
Telephone: 01772 454328
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Telephone: 01772 454328
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The above video is a 2 minute section of our guest artist concert
We meet thirty six times per year at The Priory Club, Broadfield Drive, Leyland, Lancashire, England, PR25 1QN, we hold a concert on the third Wednesday of every month, a professional guest artist features on alternate months. Our local players are the special guest artists on the months in between. Each month we have a practice night which is an excuse for us to get together drinking coffee, talking about all Leyland Accordion Club meet on the first, third and if there is one, the fifth Wednesday in each month. The first and fifth Wednesdays of the month are informal practice nights, the third Wednesday is always our concert night. The doors open at 7.30 PM. From 8pm onwards we listen to a variety of amateur and professional players on our stage. If you are a player, then bring your accordion along and give us a tune. All levels of player welcome as well as listeners who just enjoy meeting a nice crowd and hearing some good music. Please note that on the evenings where we have a guest artist that does not mean that you leave your accordion at home. Even on guest artist nights, a part of the evening is dedicated to enthusiastic amateurs giving us their best. No reasonable offer to play will be turned down. This may surprise you but about 50% of our members have never touched an accordion and have no idea how to play one, they simply come along for a good night of music and singalong tunes. Every meeting is a family affair, we have members from 8 to 80, everyone is made welcome. A good description of the club might be "a social club based around accordion music, concerts and events". The venue has it's own stage, we have excellent sound equipment, there is coffee and tea on sale for just 20p a cup during the breaks and you can visit the bar for alcoholic and soft drinks if required. New visitors are made most welcome. Our aim is to have a social club based around music, why not come down and enjoy one of our concerts and meet some great people at the same time?
Above are short clips from some of our guest artist nights.
Come Inside And Meet Us View a very wide photograph showing the inside of our meeting place, this is the nearest I can get to making you feel as though you have been here, the picture is 7622 pixels wide by 450 pixels tall so you will have to wait a few seconds for it to appear. Once it has appeared you can use your browser scroll bars to move your eyes up and down and left and right to have a look around our club. The photograph below is 400KB in size. Look Around Leyland Accordion Club
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The above video is a 2 minute section of our guest artist concert
The above video is a 2 minute section of our guest artist concert
Here is a very large (180 degree view) photograph of one of our picnic held on the 4th of July. This is a 320k image taken at the end of the day when many people had gone home. This is the players view from the stage. (Use the scroll bars to look around the field) Notice the overnighters caravans on the left.
Here is a wrap around photograph of our club to give you an idea of being at one of our concert nights, the photograph is 450KB in size so you might have to wait a few seconds on a dial up modem connection. Use the scroll bars in your browser window to move your eyes around the club. There is some overlap at either end of this 360 degree picture to ensure that you get the complete picture.
Listen to part of one of our concerts One of our club nights was recorded and 50 minutes of it is on this website for you to enjoy, this is only a 50 minute snapshot of our three hours of music we enjoy every month. Our guest artist Steve Roxton went on to play for another hour and a quarter but we had to limit how much we put on the site. You will need a Realaudio Player on your computer to hear this concert, if you do not already have one then you have no excuse, you can download it free from the Realaudio website at www.real.com it is well worth it, there are many Realaudio sites on the Internet for you to enjoy. To put you in the picture, Steve Roxton entertained a crowd of around 90 people with his Excelsior Midivox accordion connected to a Roland RA90 expander. If you have a look at the photograph below you will be able look around our room to get a feel for the place. You can even do this whilst listening to the concert. I hope you enjoy this recording, this is the first time an accordion club has broadcast it's concert over the Internet and I hope that I have set a trend. I will be recording more nights for broadcast over the Internet if the demand is there, let me know what you think by sending me an email. Listen to part of one of our concerts by clicking here Look Around Leyland Accordion Club While You Listen To The Concert
The above video is a 3 minute section of our guest artist concert featuring Harry Hussey. Accordion Sales and RepairsIf you are looking at this site for accordion sales or repairs then please contact Rob at Birmingham Accordion Centre. Rob does repairs for Leyland Accordion Club members and looks after anyone else we send there. He provides some fantastic deals on new and used accordions from his custom built centre in Birmingham.This has recently had an £8000 refurbishment allowing Rob to provide practice rooms, accordion sales, concertina and melodion sales, training, lessons, midi fitting, microphone installation, showroom, pianos, accessories, amplifiers, straps metronomes etc.The above is in addition to the excellent repair and retuning facilities Rob has, his workshop is fully equipped for any type of repair or restoration, if he doesn't have a part or a key for your accordion then he can make one for you. Rob has also built accordions and melodions from scratch in the past, starting with a block of wood, ending up with an accordion !!!I think you will find his prices very competitive on both sales and repairs with some excellent accordions for sale at little more than trade price, give him a call on 07931 246450 to ask for a quote.Visit his website www.accordioncentre.co.uk
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