I think I am in the market for an accordian. I know little about them.
what do you know, what is a good affordable make and model. are there differences?
have any for sale?
I don't know anything about them, but a Google search produced a forum for accordion:
http://accordionist.org/cms//index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=91
I would suggest you post the same post there and see if you get lucky. Good luck!
an accordian forum. thanks coloradofenderbender.
Happy hunting, db!
The accordion is my 'guilty pleasure' of an instrument. Flat out love them and, after a trip to Italy, I did a bunch of reading up on them.
The main thing I'd emphasize when you're buying one used: find one that's been played and properly maintained. They're insanely complicated instruments and can take up to 20 hours of a technician's time to tune/replace parts if they've been lying idle for a long time. A lot of accomplished players actually fly them round trip to Italy for the service. :shock:
:)
Don
being half Italian and raised by Italian grandparents for the first six years of my life I now understanfd my love for accordion.
I have a song idea that requires accordion.
thanks for the tips boxboy!
I used to work with a guy who played accordian. He did all kinds of Jewish special occasions and was well known for it. He literally got sick of it.
He tried for a long time to sell it but no one was interested. He got a scheming idea one day and here's what he did. We have a large shopping mall and it has its share of riff-raff and criminal mischief. He figured if he took his car to the mall, left the doors unlocked and the windows down with the accordian in the back seat, maybe someone would steal it and he could claim it on insurance.
So he takes the day and goes to the mall thinking he'll finally get rid if the accordian. After hanging around the mall all day he decides he's had enough and figured by now something should have happened.
When he got to his car he was more than surprised. As he got closer he noticed that not only was HIS accordian still there but someone else put another one in his car and took off. :D
Bish
"I play live as playing dead is harder than it sounds!"
when I lived in rural wisconsin we never locked our house or car doors. it was only during the zuccini squash season we locked everything up. if you left a door open folks would unload their zuccini harvest on you. it was the running joke.
if you have ever grown zuccini you knew from experience that everyone planted way too much and had way too much left over.
That's been said to happen with UT football tickets in an off season.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
