But how would they have adapted? The Roland V-accordion route depended on advances in electronics and miniaturisation yet to come. Probably no way they could have stemmed the tide of preference for the ‘new’ guitar sound and everything that went with rock and roll.
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Thanks for that. From 2009, a year before the Beatles number. I wonder whether she played other genres of music in the thirty or forty years before, or whether she suffered from the guitar takeover, too.
Yes, it doesn’t seem to be all that common a busking instrument these days, though a few years ago when I lived in SE London an influx we had at the time of middle Europeans brought some street Klezmer players. One in particular intrigued me because in the cold weather he was able to play very successfully in woollen gloves - yes even the bass side. But perhaps that is a skill you have long since mastered? Myself, I find the hardening of the tips of my fingers from playing guitar, allied to the lessening of sensation that comes with age, make it difficult enough to discern the bass button indentations, without the cushioning that a layer of material would introduce!
I think Bert was being sarcastic, even then.
I always enjoy guessing if someone with an accordion is actually an accordionist or a piano player with an accordion strapped on. ?
Not much left hand going on, is there??
