Pitch bending in the accordion

[Glenn]

For those having a physical bent (pun intended), the following presentation is an interesting starting point to get the neurons firing.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/318/mini-courses/Winter2013/Cottingham-2.pdf[/url]

 

[Glenn]

And for the masochist amongst us, heres a little light reading.

http://books.google.nl/books?id=9CR...5sICIAg&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false[/url]

 

[JIM D.]

Glenn; There were many posts on reed bending on the late and former UK accordion site that most of our first time members on this site were members of . If you care we can expand the topic here. Regards: Jim D.

 

[Sarah]

Accordion Lesson: How To Make Pitch Bend (video)
Accordion Sounds Like Mouth Organ / Harmonica

 

[Bill Palmer]

My father used the thumb under the key technique as early as the 1940's. His last two accordions had special registers that played a bassoon reed with a half opened slide. This made it much easier.