I don't think that the accordion is many people's fave instrument ...

[nilorius]

Everyone chooses their right way on their own. Let's give them a time to decide.

[Earbrass]

 

 

Edited June 24 by Earbrass

[shug]

Anyone who ever saw Rockin' Dopsie, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jiminez or any of the other greats would have a high opinion of the acordian as an exciting, funky and expressive instrument.

 

'Cordians got soul. man !

[TheRev]

I quite enjoy a bit of accordion, primarily in this context:

 

 

[Owen]

It lends itself astonishingly well to Stravinsky!

 

 

[rwillett]

I lived in Hamburg for a while, mid 90s. I lived with people my own age, young professional programmers, slightly nerdy(OK completely nerdy). 

Ultra cool when going out, often completely in black, ultra cynical. You get the picture. 

The moment they saw an accordion player in sodding Lederhosen in the street, they became 60 years old, started clapping along with the music, asking for different music. Basically became their parents.

I actually have no issues with an accordion. It's not my musical weapon of choice but only in small measures. 

Rob 

[casapete]

19 hours ago, shug said:

Anyone who ever saw Rockin' Dopsie, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jiminez or any of the other greats would have a high opinion of the acordian as an exciting, funky and expressive instrument.

 

'Cordians got soul. man !

I was lucky enough to see Ry Cooder in the 80’s at a gig with Flaco, who was absolutely brilliant.

In the right situation accordions can be fabulous instruments. 

[songofthewind]

4 hours ago, casapete said:

I was lucky enough to see Ry Cooder in the 80’s at a gig with Flaco, who was absolutely brilliant.

In the right situation accordions can be fabulous instruments. 

The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces! Fantastic live band!

[Grahambythesea]

In the hands of Phil Cunningham, an accordion is brilliant. The bass playing in this song is pretty nifty too. I used to love driving through France with Silly Wizard blasting out of the cassette machine in my little Citroen. Ah, nostalgia is what it used to be.

 

 

[Rosie C]

2 hours ago, Grahambythesea said:

In the hands of Phil Cunningham, an accordion is brilliant. The bass playing in this song is pretty nifty too. I used to love driving through France with Silly Wizard blasting out of the cassette machine in my little Citroen. Ah, nostalgia is what it used to be.

 

 

He's my favourite accordion player. He did a 3-episode series on BBC a while ago which is on YouTube and tells pretty much everything you need to know about accordions

 

[Jay2U]

My father played many instruments. Accordion was one of them. To be honest, I didn't like the sound it produced. Somehow I think the sound is rather cheap.

[lowdown]

Ewe Steger as a soloist....

 

 

 

And then the duo with his wife, Heidi.

 

 

Edited June 27 by lowdown

[Musicman666]

 

[Cliff Edge]

On 14/06/2024 at 17:17, pst62 said:

and then one day someone invented an answer to the problem.

I see it also works on Bagpipes. Useful multitool.

[T-Bay]

Foo fighters did two acoustic songs with an accordion at Villa park last night. ‘Novel’ is probably the best way I could describe it.

[squire5]

Whats the sweetest sound an accordian can make?

 

'SPLASH'.

[pst62]

They must have been in high demand at some point somewhere.

[chrisba]

I was in Corsica last week, and as we walked back from the beach, there were 2 accordianists playing typical French music in the town square, with loads of people sitting ouside the bars under the shade of the trees listening to them, some of whom were drinking pastis, and the rest of the square was taken up with people playing boules. So staggeringly French, it almost felt like a theme park. Adored the place, and sad to be home.

[nekomatic]

I am currently accordionless, having Freegled the second of our charity shop acquisitions a while back as I wasn't really playing it and it was too out of tune and not worth paying to fix. Although we then visited a mate I hadn't seen in ages and found that he's taken up accordion restoring as a hobby, but never mind.

 

However, mrs nekomatic has inherited an accordion from her uncle in Sweden which we believe to be a decent one and we are in the process of getting it over here via her various sisters who live there - apparently it has survived the first leg of its journey via DHL so fingers crossed. Speaking of fingers crossed though, it's a button model not a piano one, so that'll be an interesting challenge.

[Rosie C]

3 hours ago, nekomatic said:

Speaking of fingers crossed though, it's a button model not a piano one, so that'll be an interesting challenge.

 

I had a chance to play a C-griff model a few weeks ago. It felt like a step up in complexity from a piano accordion, but I could see that once I got my head around the button layout it had a lot more options, in a relatively small package.

 

[meterman]

I remember seeing Elzef play live in Paris over a decade ago and instead of the full accordion / brass / upright bass / drums / guitar combo, like here:

 

 

...they did a stripped down trio gig of guitar, drums and accordion, playing versions of stuff like this:

 

...where the accordion player did the bass lines and the brass parts. He was amazing. They also covered a load of classic era hip hop that night with the same lineup and were absolutely rocking 👍

[diskwave]

That first vid is just lovely. Reminds me of France, sat in a sunny square somewhere with a nice glass of red watching the world go by.

[Musicman666]

On 30/06/2024 at 15:48, pst62 said:

They must have been in high demand at some point somewhere.

the sign originally said "no testing".

[pst62]

3 hours ago, Musicman666 said:

the sign originally said "no testing".

I can fully appreciate that sentiment.

[rwillett]

Another sign out of view probably said "No playing Stairway to Heaven"