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Jerry, I won’t mention which or where, but I lived close to them. I basically did just what you mentioned.Took my SG to my first and last meeting.
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The highlighted words are the most important. Every now and then you will get someone that wants to criticize and strongly push their opinions of how things should be, thats where a strong and diplomatic personality keeps things in line.I’m started a club myself which is still going strong, meeting and gigging regularly, although I moved away. No officers or rules. Everyone plays the same songs together then people can play their own tunes if they want. The music tends to be “accordion industrial complex” from the good old days because of the background of my co developer who has taken over, making set list for gigs, lining them up, etc. But meets in a “pub” owned by my friends, and no drama allowed.
Creating a club is easy, making it successful is near a full time job!
So true!
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That was the thought I had, the snobbishness level must be so high that they lack oxygen to breathe… lol
She does a very nice job on that piece. Too bad the lighting is not better; is that a Pigini or maybe a Bugari ? Here in Northeastern Florida there are no clubs and no accordion activity; save myself. I dare say other than one busker in the historic center of St Augustine, I don't think there are any other accordionists in this area. Indeed unfortunate......
Huh. I listened to the clip again. I don't think I like the Pigini sound. It's more extreme in this clip than I remember. The reeds respond well, but in a comparatively soulless on-off manner with a sound I don't really care for. Including the bass reeds. Actually makes it hard for me to focus on the music.
At the beginning of the video you can see the label - it says PIGINI
I believe this is a Pigini Sirius bayan, but not the first generation (with pretty bad bass sound). I have heard worse Pigini sound than this recording. But it is to a large extent a matter of taste. The sound of an accordion is partly determined by the reeds (but many use the same types of reeds, and often by the same manufacturers, mostly Voci Armoniche or Artigiani Voci in high end accordions), but mostly by the reed blocks and to some extent by the construction of the accordion case (both treble and bass side), and unless it is very open also by the grille.
Maybe. The response is even and immediate. It is clearly good material. I just cannot connect to what they make from it. Or it is the material after all and the machine production of the reed plates has been perfected to a degree where you can create reeds with super small gaps and pressure-independent pitch without human intervention so that the initial and "a mano" randomization and correction of it are no longer part of the process.
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It's not a difference in material (because the same reeds are used in many other accordions), it is careful voicing and adjustments of the booster springs on the valves. It takes a good accordion repairer to keep the perfectly equalized response during maintenance and to adjust the springs so that the note frequency stays constant when going from pianissimo to fortissimo (except on the lowest notes that always go down a bit, especially in the push direction). And it takes this repairer a lot of time to get it absolutely right. A perfect accordion is not just very expensive when you buy it, the maintenance is also expensive to keep it that way.
