{"id":4431,"date":"2022-12-02T11:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/?page_id=4431"},"modified":"2022-12-06T23:45:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:45:52","slug":"melodica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/melodica\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melodica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-66869637\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b2c73152\"><span class=\"gb-icon\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 36.7 3\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M0 0h36.7v3H0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"gb-headline-text\">daren banars\u00eb<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-6a91ce70 gb-headline-text\">Playing &amp; Teaching Melodica<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-35af9f83\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-04a59e9c\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-04a59e9c\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full image-shadow img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eddie-melodica.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4534\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-3f0eac95\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3f0eac95\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bach Cello Suite 1 on Wooden Melodica - circular breathing\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_PzG_qbn8U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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I think you have shown it can be done&#8221;<\/h3>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCQP_gzl-By80Di2YmIQxWAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCQP_gzl-By80Di2YmIQxWAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F Demoretcky<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ef0500fa\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-520f7eb0\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-484db0aa\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-484db0aa\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full image-shadow img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/canal-melodica.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4532\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-023888b0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-023888b0\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full image-shadow img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Melodica-lessons-book-2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4539\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"gb-shapes\"><div class=\"gb-shape gb-shape-1\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 1200 100\" preserveAspectRatio=\"none\"><path d=\"M1200 100H0V0l400 77.2L1200 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-cdb2e132\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-b19cd8f5\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-f4712809\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f4712809\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-ef5ef1d2\"><span class=\"gb-icon\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 36.7 3\"><path d=\"M0 0h36.7v3H0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"gb-headline-text\">melodica evolution<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-c837e5fb\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-c837e5fb\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<p>Having trained as a classical pianist, I always dreamed of having a small portable instrument I could take anywhere.  For me that dream became the melodica!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was struck by how accessible this &#8216;toy&#8217; instrument was for anyone who wanted to learning to play music.  I set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/melodicaworld.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/melodicaworld.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forum<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/MelodicaWorld\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/MelodicaWorld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a> with free lessons on how to play.  And I published a book for anyone wanting to learn how to read music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I began experimenting with making high quality wooden melodicas to use for TV recordings.  I took one of these to the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/culture\/2022\/0812\/1315404-winners-announced-for-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann-2022\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/culture\/2022\/0812\/1315404-winners-announced-for-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comhaltas Fleadh<\/a> in Ireland, and won a silver medal.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>daren banars\u00eb Playing &amp; Teaching Melodica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4431\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darenbanarse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}