@AccordionBruce

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#AccordionHistorian 🤓 🪗 Author of Accordion Revolution: a People’s History of the Accordion in North America from the Industrial Revolution to Rock ‘n’ Roll (2019) 📚 🪗 Successful #AccordionEmoji sponsor (2020) 🤩 🪗 @accordionnoir Radio DJ (2006 – Weekly)

#Disabled so the #ErgonomicKeyboard I need cost more than my last 🪗

I used Advanced Search for old tweets daily so I’m making my posts searchable via Tootfinder. But I guess we're getting search on Mastodon now too, which is nice

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@AccordionBruce I haven't even gotten my hands on one yet and i am already worried about my desire to open it up and mess with the internals. i wonder what the difficulty in tuning is like compared to the piano - i grew up in a family of musicians, so i was taught from a young age "most instruments the musician should be able to tune as easily as breathing. except for piano. for piano you never try and tune it yourself, you can't do it, and even if it seems like you can you still can't. hire a piano tuner." and i wonder if accordion is the same way

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oh wow thank you so much for this information. i'll be getting a copy of this book, as it also looks like it's an accordion hacker's guide, and i admit i do tend to unwisely open up things and start poking at them.

I am in LA, so there are lots of music shops, but the accordion dealers i could find are mostly focused on higher-end/custom accordions, and the more conventional music shops are mostly selling to public school students it seems. I found a shop in PA that has lots of lovely old instruments with videos for each one. I do have a bit of a romantic streak and will play used instruments that have a history to them over new instruments that might cause me less trouble, and accordions in particular seem to have a huge amount of history to them - i found the forum at https://www.accordionists.info and was immediately charmed reading it, there is a lot of folk history there!!!!

it's good to know that i don't need to worry about all the incredibly variation in these instruments to get started, i couldn't tell if i would get 'locked in' to a key layout that was specialized for a type of music, but reading and searching a bit makes it seem like aside from the major categories like chromatic/diatonic, button/key, free bass/stradella, that many of the differences are more along the lines of "grand piano vs. upright vs. spinet" than "piano vs. harpsichord vs. pipe organ."

The Accordionists Forum

An accordion forum open to all

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A relatively minor song, as far as I can tell, with a few releases but little to show that it was a popular staple. Although it may not especially stand out when it comes to the subject matter or the approach taken, the lyrics are nicely polished and there's plenty to like about how it all comes together.

Johnny Marvin does the honours in this 1927 recording (interestingly credited as a "comedian with orchestra" on the record label), with strong musical backing including some prominent accordion:

https://youtu.be/RUMxk1Ac_h0

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@briansullivan wrong genre Brian, it's a Scottish new wave (18)80's essential 😂 https://youtu.be/pF5Ai7tHtVk?si=iwh7gqM70RjT1a1N

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Simple Minds' Mick MacNeil - New Gold Dream (on accordion!).

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I'm a member of an accordion players forum. Someone asked what would folks do if they couldn't play any more. I had thoughts, given what's happened to me since 1994! https://www.accordionists.info/threads/what-would-you-do-if-you-couldnt-play.16264/ #accordion #disability #squeezebox #progressive #neurological #music
What would you do if you couldn't play?

If you got too old or otherwise hurt and couldn't play your accordion what would you do? I can't imagine not playing my accordion. One option is to get out my stand, put my Roland on "no bellowing required" and play. But we all know that bellowing is the soul of the accordion. Ok, how about...

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So since I got my finger blowed up, I can't really play piano, and I have been taking on psychic damage ever since.

However it seems like I might be able to play an accordion, since my blowed up finger is on my left hand and accordion seems like it has much less "ballistic" hits to the finger.

But I can't make heads or tails about what in the fuck kind of accordion to try: I play mostly moody emo Chopin sadgirl tunes, and I love piazzola, so I was reading about bandoneons, but it turns out that you can't actually get one (like literally it seems like they were only mass manufactured pre WWII and now only for like $10k custom made) and the key layout means you can like only play tango on them. And then since its a folk instrument there are like one million other kinds of accordion and I can't tell how much each is specialized for a specific kind of music.

Is there anyone on here I reach who plays #accordion and can help me out knowing what kinda button bag to play? I would be a beginner accordionist but I have been playing piano my whole life and am looking for a long term romance I mean replacement, so I don't need the like "there are 5 notes on this one and you can't go wrong" kind. I would love to be able to play sea shanties and folk punk tunes, but if its also possible to play some Chopin or Debussy arrangements on the thing that would be extremely emotionally valuable to me.

edit: thank you accordionists of the fedi for the information, and non-accordionists of the fedi for helping me reach them. my questions have been largely answered and i am gonna pick one up shortly :)

Side note: weird to see a blown up version of the blog's avatar on another website. I don't think I've ever mentioned it, but that's my grandfather in the picture, playing accordion, I believe before he immigrated to Canada.