Greek accordion

[Jack Campin]

Pontic Greek music on the accordion:



Amazing instrument - it seems to have both a Stradella bass system and a freebass section side by side.

It also seems fairly inappropriate for that kind of music, which is ultra-fast dance music normally played on a three-string flat-bridge fiddle or twin-chanter bagpipe (similar styles and instruments are or were used by Greeks, Laz, Turks and Armenians in that area). The guy gets through the notes, but I think it has more zip on something lighter.

 

[Zevy]

<FONT font=Garamond><SIZE size=125>Amazing player. The instrument is great, but one has to know how to play....

 

[Jack Campin]

Some really flashy free Greek scores:

http://www.panaccordeon.gr/accordion/harmonica/sheets.html

 

[JIM D.]

He has a bassetti bass machine -- see here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-bass_system