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  1. KayKayeInDBQ

    New to Accordions, need help identifying

    Hi, my parents recently passed, and I was given my dad's accordion with the understanding that I will learn to play it, and play it with my Guttenberg (IA) German Band (I usually play clarinet.) It is in pretty rough shape, and I need to find someone who can restore it. I would like to start by...
  2. Mark Bossanyi

    Button accordion: choice of right-hand fingering can be a mixed blessing

    I changed from a piano accordion to a B-system button accordion years ago for playing jazz improvisation. I thought that the different ways to play one and the same note - and the variety of possible fingerings for playing one and the same riff - would help. Well, it can certainly provide...
  3. D

    Anyone playing the Atzarin?

    Hello, Folks. I have borrowed from my kind and generous friend his Atzarin. Yup. That of the strange layout. Buttons, looks like a CBA, but plays bisonorically, yet chromatically. Needs two fingering patterns, mostly, to play in about 8 keys, including the ones I'd likely need. Heavy...
  4. H

    CBA Treble Buttons - How to Lower the Tension?

    Hi all, The treble buttons on my CBA are a bit hard to press down. I have to really slam them down to make sure I'm hitting the notes in faster runs. I'm assuming this is controlled by spring tension? Does anyone have experience with making the buttons easier to press, and is it something I...
  5. W

    Which is harder to play?

    Is a piano accordion easier to play than a button accordion? I could imagine that a button accordion would be easier to play than a piano accordion, because on the piano accordion my fingers don’t want to go to the next note.
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