Accordion in Finland!Wow!

[Dingo40]

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[Dingo40]

Maugein,
Sadly, it’s much the same everywhere!
They have now made it legal here for cyclists to move between stationary vehicles wherever they can manage to fit, so now even private motorists are exposed to being sued when opening any door to alight in case a cyclist runs into it.

 

[Tom]

California is good. Wisconsin is better.

 

[maugein96]

Maugein,
Sadly, it’s much the same everywhere!
They have now made it legal here for cyclists to move between stationary vehicles wherever they can manage to fit, so now even private motorists are exposed to being sued when opening any door to alight in case a cyclist runs into it.

Our UK city road systems simply cannot cope with the volume of cycle traffic at certain times of day. Most cyclists take responsibility for themselves, but its the hard nosed types with the spray on lycra suits and expensive performance bikes who think that they have an absolute right to beat all the other traffic on the road who are the problem. In their view road signs, markings, and traffic lights, have been put there in the furtherance of their quest to make it easier to weave in and out of all the other traffic.

Unfortunately, what they consider to be their road space often conflicts with bus lanes and bus stops. Typical scenario is, in the belief that there are no intending passengers at a bus stop or who wish to alight, we move out of a bus lane for an approaching right hand turn. Then a passenger rings the bell wishing to alight, having left it to the last minute. With experience most of us will simply take the passenger to the next bus stop for the sake of safety, but newer drivers are often frightened theyll get into trouble if they run past a stop. They therefore pull back into the bus lane, forgetting that some of the lycra boys are maybe up to about 35 mph in the 20 mph speed limit of the city centre zone, and thats where the entertainment really starts.

 

[OuijaBoard]

Getting into the spirit of the thing, here are my favorite online accordion renditions of Finlands glorious Sakkijarven Polkka, both by CBA wizard Jussi Marttinen:

Solo:


Duo with a young tyro:


Legend has it the Sakkijarven Polkka was used by the Finnish Army to jam radio-controlled Soviet mines in 1941 during the Continuation war, including 1500 continuous playys on strategically planted mobile transmitters . . .

 

[mdarnton]

In the late 70s, early 80s I played in a Finnish wedding band in Michigans Upper Peninsula. Up there, a local heroine was Viola Turpeinen, and I will just point to this: http://www.musicforaccordion.com/inform/viola/index.htm Clicking on an album gives you specific tune names and 20 second samples.
Many of the Finnish accordion tunes that are popular were written by her or originally recorded by her.

These days my favorite accordion player from any country is Maria Kalaneimi, who over the years has morphed into sort of a folk/modern/jazz style that seems to be all her own.

There are plenty of recordings by both on youtube.