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One for Anyanka....hope it works....
One for Anyanka....hope it works....
Accordion Art
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maugein96
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Terry,
Hope there is no jewellery there to get caught in the bellows, or maybe she's turned it upside down to try and get free of it!
Hope there is no jewellery there to get caught in the bellows, or maybe she's turned it upside down to try and get free of it!
I like the chopsticks. Judging by the direction of insertation, I'll bet she's a southpaw.
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I like it - although she might need a bigger accordion.... And I do hope she has a bellows pad as she appears to be playing topless. Something to be avoided. Also, one of the most common (and irritating) questions asked of female accordionists, the nipple squeeze thing. As if we would.
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Geronimo
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A corset button ripped into the bellows of one instrument. If you want to be safe, you probably should tape off that button row after closing it.Anyanka post_id=57571 time=1524736617 user_id=74 said:
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Geronimo post_id=57580 time=1524744660 user_id=2623 said:
Would a bellows pad not prevent that? You know more about corsets than I do
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Well, they are pretty vicious things:Anyanka post_id=57642 time=1524824574 user_id=74 said:Geronimo post_id=57580 time=1524744660 user_id=2623 said:
Would a bellows pad not prevent that? You know more about corsets than I do
But if they rip into a bellows pad, thats certainly preferably to ripping into the bellows. Still probably easier to just tape off that button row. Or find something more decorative to put over it.
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Anyanka post_id=57642 time=1524824574 user_id=74 said:Would a bellows pad not prevent that? You know more about corsets than I do
I play French boxes. Whats a bellows pad? Are they made by the same people who make bellows straps, and boxes with more than one colour of treble buttons?
Only ever had one (Italian) box with a bellows pad. Needed a crane to lift it on and off.
In my dafter days I used to occasionally smoke a pipe while playing, until one day I sat down and bit right through the stem after the bowl struck the top of that very Italian box. Lucky I never set the bellows on fire!
maugein96 post_id=57647 time=1524828664 user_id=607 said:
But I bet you set the room on fire :!:
:ch ka-ching
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Jozz,
If you've ever heard me playing you'd know there wouldn't be much chance of me doing that. People usually pay me not to play! I was OK for a while but I suffered a bad injury to my right hand over 20 years ago, and never really got the playing up to scratch again. I can still play, after a fashion, but sometimes I get frustrated that my fingers can't do what they used to, and the boxes get packed away for months.
I'm thinking of starting up again, but just concentrating on the simpler stuff that I know I'll be able to manage. I'm self taught and never really was on track to be a pro or even semi-pro player.
As a Brit and fan of French musette I was at a major disadvantage. Two or three years into learning C system I discovered nearly all my accordion "heroes" played B system. Whilst that wasn't a big problem in the early days, I ran into difficulties later when I tried to work out fingering. I discovered that some of the trickier tunes written for B system just don't fall naturally for C system. One store in the whole of the UK sold B system, and they were based in London, over 650 km away from where I then lived in Scotland. Maybe once in 5 years they'd get a B system in but it was usually gone within a few days. They had two boxes with Belgian basses in stock for a while, but I never fancied re-learning the whole show. I started listening to C system players and was able to get on better playing their stuff, except for Jo Privat, whose style still causes me problems. He switched over from diatonic to CBA with fingering patterns to match!
If you've ever heard me playing you'd know there wouldn't be much chance of me doing that. People usually pay me not to play! I was OK for a while but I suffered a bad injury to my right hand over 20 years ago, and never really got the playing up to scratch again. I can still play, after a fashion, but sometimes I get frustrated that my fingers can't do what they used to, and the boxes get packed away for months.
I'm thinking of starting up again, but just concentrating on the simpler stuff that I know I'll be able to manage. I'm self taught and never really was on track to be a pro or even semi-pro player.
As a Brit and fan of French musette I was at a major disadvantage. Two or three years into learning C system I discovered nearly all my accordion "heroes" played B system. Whilst that wasn't a big problem in the early days, I ran into difficulties later when I tried to work out fingering. I discovered that some of the trickier tunes written for B system just don't fall naturally for C system. One store in the whole of the UK sold B system, and they were based in London, over 650 km away from where I then lived in Scotland. Maybe once in 5 years they'd get a B system in but it was usually gone within a few days. They had two boxes with Belgian basses in stock for a while, but I never fancied re-learning the whole show. I started listening to C system players and was able to get on better playing their stuff, except for Jo Privat, whose style still causes me problems. He switched over from diatonic to CBA with fingering patterns to match!
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Dublinesque
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I quite like these two characters, from the Dutch theme park, Efteling.
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They also had a polar bear playing a concertina during one of the fairground rides, but I didnt get a photo of that...
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They also had a polar bear playing a concertina during one of the fairground rides, but I didnt get a photo of that...
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Could be!
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maugein96
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Italian accordion art.
Daniele Donadelli with some artistic work in the background.
His Lucchini accordion with modenese basses is a work of art in itself. Modenese bass appears to be still relatively popular with players in the Modena and Parma areas, and it would appear that Italian immigrants from there who went to work in the Belgian coal mines took their accordions with them. The Belgians have since claimed the system as theirs, and the Belgian and Modenese bass is essentially the same thing.
Daniele Donadelli with some artistic work in the background.
His Lucchini accordion with modenese basses is a work of art in itself. Modenese bass appears to be still relatively popular with players in the Modena and Parma areas, and it would appear that Italian immigrants from there who went to work in the Belgian coal mines took their accordions with them. The Belgians have since claimed the system as theirs, and the Belgian and Modenese bass is essentially the same thing.
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losthobos post_id=57538 time=1524679632 user_id=729 said:
Pet peeve of mine: if you have the money to hire actors/models and an instrument for a drawing/photograph/movie, at least hire someone who can tell the actor/model how to hold the darn thing. Why use an instrument in the first place if you actually want a fig leaf?
Somewhat related: this comic strip illustrates the kind of mood breaker this is for me.
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Geronimo post_id=57753 time=1525072068 user_id=2623 said:
Thats a frequent complaint among bagpipers especially! Almost all old paintings of pipers have weird postures & poses, and as the makers often reconstruct extinct pipes from those paintings (and carvings), the information contained is crucial
The worst example I saw was in a documentary about Madame Tussaud, where a flautist was holding his flute at the strangest angle while blowing straight into the embouchure hole rather than across it. Worst example because the flute is such a well-known instrument, and a photo/video of the correct posture would be dead easy to find!
But thats a subject for a whole other thread if you like - abysmal accordion-miming in movies & on tv....
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