Scan TesterSCAN 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.
Additional notes
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.
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”).
See also listing at : Hear the tune played on melodeon by Lester Bailey [2]
