Accordion in different kinds of music

[petch]

I also appreciate synthesizers - but the clue is in the name as imitators (and often a pale imitation) - be they keyboard form, button form or any musical instrument interface.

And now people try to imitate those imitators in software!

 

[Pipemajor]

ahhhh.. you meant the sound itself..

i see what you mean

well for me, for instance the Holiday season is big on special
songs and sounds.. i DO like to play some of the
Nutcracker on gigs, and people seem to love hearing it,
and while a solo M is nice for the lead lines, it brings the
imagery of the tiny ballerina's into the imagination better when
i use the good Flute sound on the FR7, and play the notes
and emphasis like a Flute player does, as much as humanly possible

Route 66 is one of my signature songs.. for the solo riff i will
use the jazz Guitar if i am MIDIfied or Rolanded and no-one seems
to think it is strange sounding

How Sweet it is (Jr. Walker and the All Stars) is all about the SAX,
and you have to admit the Roland nails that sound, and when i use it
i nail the SONG

maybe again it is because i had the Cordovox from a young age, and so
electronic and alternate sounds were always in my head, but i also way
back in my Student days remember transcribing Walter Wanderly songs
(Ipanema and So Nice) and a flute song from the Dynatones (Fife Piper)
until i could play them note for note
(with a slight accomodation for when i reached the high A and needed a couple more keys)

the Hammond was an easy match as the Lowry circuits were pretty darn close,
but i didn't get to use a Fife sound with a touch keyboard and bellows sensing
until many decades later

THAT SONG... the Fife Piper... that specific song was why Roland hired me
to demo and promote the FR7 when they heard me play it

with the right sound

with the right touch

the song came to it's originally recorded life even though i am an accordion player

about a year later, Roland hired a new director for the accordion dept.
and i played White Bird during a practice session at Roxy's using the
Violin and string sound and it stopped him in his tracks..

so these are some of my reasons why..

one more you may relate to.. as a Piper i imagine you have heard Sardou's
Connemara

well think of how you would play the left hand accordion to accompany him..
there is zero room for Oom Pa Pa.. but an accordionist can easily adjust
to playing the Rhythm line and sound GOOD doing it

ciao

Hi Ventura, I totally agree with everything you say.
I think we are coming at this from different perspectives.
You, as the consummate professional who will and can play everything that is required, whereas I, the mediocre amateur, only play the stuff I enjoy and leave the rest to others.
Now, having led a very sheltered life (?), I haven't heard, apart from Route 66, any of the tunes you mentioned, so when I listened to The Fife Piper on you tube, having originated from Angus in Scotland, which is just across the Tay river from Fife, and also, being a piper, I was quite surprised when the tune has nothing to do with Fife or bagpipes, but I do get your drift about the fife (musical instrument) sound, and I must agree that the Roland saxophone and clarinet sounds are very realistic and I totally get that a professional musician such as yourself can take the place of a multitude of other instrumentalists.
As to Sardou's Connemara, again I don't see any connection with bagpipes or Ireland, but I do see your point.
I think I must get out more