Dingo40
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(Both numbers allegedly at an impromptu jam session)
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Let's hear it from the PA!🙂👍
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Some more?
(Both numbers allegedly at an impromptu jam session)
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I always adored the piano accordion because it was so approachable. At a very young age, I recall being ordered by my elder sister to work the bellows whilst she pressed the keys with both hands, horizontal like a piano. The Skye Boat Song was our standard tune. That's the thing, it's like a piano, those keys - elegant, antique, universal. For me, 41 piano keys, were just right - both moderate and versatile. With a style echoing the ages and a connection to a greater world of keyboard instruments, past and present.
You know, Oleg Sharov once told me that in Russia it was a 50/50 split. In music school they have Bayan with B griff, and accordion with piano keys. That spoke volumes about the potential of the piano accordion when the most advanced accordion tradition in the world chose to study these instruments equally. But why wouldn't they? The simple recorder played well can produce greater music than the most complex organ played badly.
For me the piano accordion made a lovely pairing with the violin. That standard accordion treble range running F3 to A6, as ideal a match to the violin as anyone could wish for. There was even the flexibility to extend the range from F2 to A7. I have always found the violin and cello, and also acoustic guitar are perfection with the piano accordion next to them.
I mainly play traditional Scottish music and I find it works very well on the piano accordion. The Shand Morino suits Scottish music too. But south of the border I saw Jack Emblow playing Jazz as good as any musician. I later discovered the great American jazz accordionists. Seemed to me the piano accordion played it well. That enhanced my belief in the piano accordion.
From time to time I listened to classical music on the accordion, and always had a preference for the melodic orchestral music and for keyboard music from Baroque to the Romantic. I guess it was inevitable that I would add a converter instrument to my musette accordion. I chose the American quint converter because it too was approachable, moderate and intuitive. I never wanted to play very extreme contemporary music. However, I never found the piano accordion limiting either.
With a charm and tone from a Golden Age, the piano accordion is a simple sensation. It has everything - pioneer composers, traditional and folk music, jazz and classical. Keys and buttons interacting in harmony with wonderful expressive bellows.
You know, Oleg Sharov once told me that in Russia it was a 50/50 split. In music school they have Bayan with B griff, and accordion with piano keys. That spoke volumes about the potential of the piano accordion when the most advanced accordion tradition in the world chose to study these instruments equally. But why wouldn't they? The simple recorder played well can produce greater music than the most complex organ played badly.
For me the piano accordion made a lovely pairing with the violin. That standard accordion treble range running F3 to A6, as ideal a match to the violin as anyone could wish for. There was even the flexibility to extend the range from F2 to A7. I have always found the violin and cello, and also acoustic guitar are perfection with the piano accordion next to them.
I mainly play traditional Scottish music and I find it works very well on the piano accordion. The Shand Morino suits Scottish music too. But south of the border I saw Jack Emblow playing Jazz as good as any musician. I later discovered the great American jazz accordionists. Seemed to me the piano accordion played it well. That enhanced my belief in the piano accordion.
From time to time I listened to classical music on the accordion, and always had a preference for the melodic orchestral music and for keyboard music from Baroque to the Romantic. I guess it was inevitable that I would add a converter instrument to my musette accordion. I chose the American quint converter because it too was approachable, moderate and intuitive. I never wanted to play very extreme contemporary music. However, I never found the piano accordion limiting either.
With a charm and tone from a Golden Age, the piano accordion is a simple sensation. It has everything - pioneer composers, traditional and folk music, jazz and classical. Keys and buttons interacting in harmony with wonderful expressive bellows.
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How nice to find oneself lost in eventide reverie. These all but ethereal musings put me in mind of Schumann's Scenes from Childhood 'Kinderszenen'. The first one is 'Of Foreign Lands and Peoples' (Von fremden Ländern und Menschen). I learnt this as a boy on the piano and it feels equally natural in my beginner hands on my rusty trusty little c system freebass accordion. It must be an effortless delight to play with the versatile resources of a mighty piano quint converter with its affinity with the piano keyboard. I'd be interested to know how you enjoyed playing it on such an intuitive instrument (if you fancied learning a good tune.)
Beautiful music attached!Walker
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Thank you for the bonnie tune, it's appreciated. I shall endevour to learn it, though it is quite some time since I followed a recipe. I like to write music, I am working on something just now, it's nearly finished. I hope to share it with you soon. Something simple and perhaps a little wistful.
My modest quint converter will not know what has happened if I start learning a classical piece. I think it's got used to my traditional type tunes and novel accompanyment on the free bass. But if I struggle, maybe we can try my sisters old accordion method - you could press those lovely old keys (on the horizontal, like a piano) and I could work the bellows.
My modest quint converter will not know what has happened if I start learning a classical piece. I think it's got used to my traditional type tunes and novel accompanyment on the free bass. But if I struggle, maybe we can try my sisters old accordion method - you could press those lovely old keys (on the horizontal, like a piano) and I could work the bellows.
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