Continuing today's musical theme with a very different thing: here are the ex-Silly Wizard brothers Phil (accordion) and Johnny (fiddle) playing various reels - reels being a fast folk dance in 4/4 time.
Correction, as played here, a very very fast 4/4 folk dance.
Nothing much to analyse here musically - here are two complete musicians, who know each others playing inside out - having fun.
And their fun is irresistible for the audience.
This is so exciting in its wild, confident, improvisatory verve, that I actually find it hard to breathe while watching and listening.
I used to play piano accordion myself, as a folk music instrument (a smaller version) in a ham-fisted fashion (and a limited range of keys).
Phil Cunningham is, for me, By Far the best player I have ever encountered on this instrument.
It is admittedly a pretty lame instrument, most of the time... well, nearly all of the time, actually. And looked down upon even in folk music circles (where the button-keyed melodeon and concertinas are the prestige free-reed bellows instruments).
But PC here makes the lumbering beast into something cool and exciting.
Fun Fact: the Cunningham brothers were brought-up as Mormons, living near Edinburgh: a rare mode of upbringing in Scotland.
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