@grantpotter @accordionnoir
Be interesting to know if it’s just availability, or cost or style?

Some of the nicest one-row so called #Cajun accordions have been custom built in #Louisiana over the years

Not so, larger three-rows, or fully chromatic piano #accordion like Clifton Chénier played that made it possible to mix in blues and R&B to create #zydeco

Early one-row 🪗 couldn’t play #blues easily so it got left out of most Black American music 🤷🏽

#Zydeco is the exception with backstory

@grantpotter @accordionnoir
🪗 didact: the author of that #bandcamp piece made a couple errors

One row diatonic #accordion can play in more than one key if the keys don’t require the full chromatic scale

The player does become limited beyond a few keys, and has to be more and more skilled to hide the “gaps” in keys the instrument wasn’t built to play easily in

#Louisiana’s French fiddle music lost a lot of tunes that couldn’t be played on one-row accordions

But not all but one key
#Cajun

@grantpotter 🙏🏼
Great selection of #AccordionBandcamp recommendations in this Bandcamp Weekly feature on #Creole and #Cajun 🪗 music
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/cajun-creole-accordion-music-guide

I’ll be getting some of these artists to play on @accordionnoir radio including Marcella Simien ❤️‍🔥🪗
https://marcellaandherlovers.bandcamp.com/music

#accordion #zydeco #Louisiana #Texas #Memphis