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Carlian
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I just came across your site looking for a Hohner Lucia...probably not going to find one. I am very new. Last winter I saw a video of a button box player on youtube and I thought, I really love that sound and Id like to do that. 20 years ago I bought an old concertina in an antique shop and manage to squeeze out a couple chords to accent my husbands drunken weekend band of folk music and standards. But it was impossible to make sense of and this is pre internet! I still have the thing on sale now on craiglist. I decided to shop for a teacher and an instrument and an education. I was most attracted to tex-mex playing but the first person I found nearby played in a polka band and she had a friend who owned a lot of button boxes. so I bought one from him, a GCF thinking that key, I could probably play most everything! HA! How wrong I was. I had no idea what I was in for. This guy had a bout 12. right off the bat I couldnt play with the polka band because they played in BEAflat(where is your flat sign?) He didnt have one to sell. So this polka group leader she wasnt interested in teaching either. So how am I going to learn a diatonic anything? Youtube to start. when I finally found a teacher she only played Irish jigs and reels. I didnt have that type of accordion! But I knew where I could get one...I bought that. Now I have 3 accordions and cant even play! I do read music a little from learning the piano as a kid but I didnt want to read music to play. When I was learning the piano I couldnt do a thing without sheet music and I didnt want that. I would have to learn by ear. So in our new age of technology I found that I could record a player on my ipad and that was my sheet music to practice by. I have a whole selection of those now. This is my teacher <YOUTUBE id=jVAkWJJdOmk list=PLmPD-zJfMHNdQH1aSY_XKg-X9muA5ah78 url=>[media] ( so I dont see how to put a video in here) And last month I bought a BEA so I can now join the polka group to learn best I can.
