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|f_annotation=[[File:tester.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Scan Tester]]'''SCAN TESTER'S POLKA NO. 1.''' AKA - "Scan Tester's No. 2." English, Polka (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. An untitled polka from the playing of Scan Tester [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan_Tester] (1887-1972), a concertina player from Horsted Keynes, Ashdown Forest, Sussex. Tester also occasionally played the fiddle. | |||
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"Scan Tester's Polk (1)" and "[[Scan Tester's Polka (2)]]" are usually paired as a set for session play, although Tester himself does not seem to have played them together. | |||
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|f_printed_sources=Barber ('''Nick Barber's English Choice'''), 2002; No. 64, p. 30 (as "Scan Tester's No. 2"). Callaghan ('''Hardcore English'''), 2007; p. 47. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=DMPCD 0204, Nick & Mary Barber with Huw Jones - "Lovely Nancy" (2002). EFDSSCD13, Dan Quinn & Will Duke – “Hardcore English” (2007. Various artists). HEBE Music HEBECD03, Dan Quinn & Will Duke – “Scanned.” Topic Records 12T455/6, Scan Tester – “I Never Played to Many Posh Dances” (appears as untitled “Stepdance”). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Hear the tune played on melodeon by Lester Bailey [https://lesters-tune-a-day.blogspot.com/2013/07/tune-330-scan-testers-no1.html]<br> | |||
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Hear the tune played on melodeon by Lester Bailey [https://lesters-tune-a-day.blogspot.com/2013/07/tune-330-scan-testers-no1.html]<br> | |||
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Latest revision as of 01:24, 13 January 2024
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SCAN TESTER'S POLKA NO. 1. AKA - "Scan Tester's No. 2." English, Polka (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. An untitled polka from the playing of Scan Tester [1] (1887-1972), a concertina player from Horsted Keynes, Ashdown Forest, Sussex. Tester also occasionally played the fiddle.
"Scan Tester's Polk (1)" and "Scan Tester's Polka (2)" are usually paired as a set for session play, although Tester himself does not seem to have played them together.