Under Paris Skies - Digital Accordion

[breezybellows]

 

[Zevy]

Very enjoyable. Keep up the good work!

 

[dak]

With the acoustic recording, I find (apart from the coffee house chatter) the pitterpatter on the bass buttons somewhat distracting. That's probably due to the bass/chord sounds chosen here being worse at masking the button noise than with an acoustic accordion. Or the damping by the springed pallets works better than by electronic contacts. Or it is just that you are playing at a more decent volume than one can manage with an acoustic. Of course, with that kind of instrument you can just record from the electric outputs and get no distraction on the record whatsoever.

The registration works nicely, if "soft-washed" in comparison to the rather cutting musette sound usually employed in connection with that tune.

 

[breezybellows]

With the acoustic recording, I find (apart from the coffee house chatter) the pitterpatter on the bass buttons somewhat distracting. That's probably due to the bass/chord sounds chosen here being worse at masking the button noise than with an acoustic accordion. Or the damping by the springed pallets works better than by electronic contacts. Or it is just that you are playing at a more decent volume than one can manage with an acoustic. Of course, with that kind of instrument you can just record from the electric outputs and get no distraction on the record whatsoever.

The registration works nicely, if "soft-washed" in comparison to the rather cutting musette sound usually employed in connection with that tune.

It's a mix of all of what you said plus my horrible left hand finger technique. I can't the bass buttons when I play stradella. It's a bad habit I've developed over the years. Also, this digital accordion has the noisiest bass buttons.

 

[dak]

It's a mix of all of what you said plus my horrible left hand finger technique. I can't the bass buttons when I play stradella. It's a bad habit I've developed over the years. Also, this digital accordion has the noisiest bass buttons.

In my last few recordings I tried to get a closeup from what the bass hand is doing. Frankly, it looks like most of the time I am just simulating because there is so little movement. I do remember getting admonished for quieter action back when I took some lessons, particularly not letting buttons snap or investing energy there: it's an accordion, not a piano. Of course that is one thing that holds equally with piano accordions: I'd imagine that the temptation for piano players to do this on accordion would be even higher than with buttons.

 

[breezybellows]

In my last few recordings I tried to get a closeup from what the bass hand is doing. Frankly, it looks like most of the time I am just simulating because there is so little movement. I do remember getting admonished for quieter action back when I took some lessons, particularly not letting buttons snap or investing energy there: it's an accordion, not a piano. Of course that is one thing that holds equally with piano accordions: I'd imagine that the temptation for piano players to do this on accordion would be even higher than with buttons.

I can't use this excuse because I'm not a Pianist. I'm not sure how I developed the habit. I guess it was because of another problem that I tried to fix that lead to this. I used to play my bass notes very long and then slur into chords that I played as staccato. My teacher was not ok with that. So I'm my attempt to shorten my bass notes, I intentionally started to hit it hard and short.

 

[dak]

I can't use this excuse because I'm not a Pianist. I'm not sure how I developed the habit. I guess it was because of another problem that I tried to fix that lead to this. I used to play my bass notes very long and then slur into chords that I played as staccato. My teacher was not ok with that. So I'm my attempt to shorten my bass notes, I intentionally started to hit it hard and short.

It's probably intuitive (which makes the pianoforte so popular). At least I had sort of the same problem. With an acoustic, one can boast the maxime "the tone isn't over until it is over" and try to keep its entire length under control (phrasing off softly or more abruptly; I've just pontificated on the technique thread about that). One of the few things that are hard to practice on a Roland, but at least if you want to train for a soft release in general, you can switch on button noise on the bass: the Roland will then clatter "realistically" if you let the bass buttons flip. Which would likely be louder than the plastic clatter and thus hide it.

I think that on my own FR-1b I gave the bass button noise but not the treble.

 

[GeekyPirate]

I loved the cadence! Nice and relaxing. Easily one of my favorite french chansons. Awesome performance!

 

[dunlustin]

Very enjoyable.
BB - Assuming you have at least as much choice as a FR4X, do you know there are 'bass parameters' which include 'button noise' type and button noise volume'? See "BtnNsLv" in Menu Options