button accordion??

[Farmer T]

I play and am familiar with pa accordions but enjoy listening to the style of music played on you tube by Zillertal Power - Mei Diandl brauchst nit traurig sein
I am guessing this is from Austria, but I do not know the language so have no idea what they are singing.
I know very little about the different button accordions other than the 120 bass chromatic that a friend plays. What kind of an accordion are these fellows playing?
and how does the left hand work? not very many bass notes?
Farmer T

 

[TomBR]

Looks like theyre playing steirische harmonika, big diatonics with four treble rows and helicon basses. Great sound!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steirische_Harmonika

 

[AccordionUprising]

Did anybody else spot this item from the Austrian accordion maker Franz Parz?
http://www.harmonika-parz.at/de/harmonikas/sondermodelle/

http://www.harmonika-parz.at/upload/imgproc/1449340_eb.png>

When someone tells you to bring drinks and your accordion.

http://www.harmonika-parz.at/upload/imgproc/1449410_eb.png>

 

[Farmer T]

Thanks TomBR, I have never heard of that type of accordion specifically. I wondered if it was a diatonic of some sort. After reading the description given of how they work, on the site you mentioned, I think they might be a challenge to learn to play. Might be fun to try though. {}

 

[bocsa]

If you can understand German check out Ziachfuchs on Youtube, Hubert has put some simple 'learn-videos as well as his regular* contributions...you'll see loads of other steirische stuff on yt from other folks

* that's the English 'regular' as in frequent (not the US version which they use in place of 'ordinary', 'standard' etc.)

 

[donn]

I would have guessed "regular" is commonly used in both senses, and other related senses, throughout the English speaking world. It's only roughly synonymous with "frequent" though - it's more about reliable frequency than high frequency. That's my perspective, anyway. Anyway, I'm regularly charmed by those helikon basses at our major yearly folk music festival here, where they show up along with some kind of schuhplatler (sp.?) dance enthusiasts. On one occasion though, when I happened to see one for sale online, I put some research into the options and was not so enchanted with commonly available instruments in this category. To be sure, I wasn't looking at Beltuna or anything, but a little lower on the economic scale those bass reeds can sound pretty sad.

 

[bocsa]

There's regular as in bowel movements and there's regular as in fries ...not sure if there's a connection
(the former is English, the latter is Americanised corrupted English which, thanks to US TV programmes, is widely misused even in England :roll: ). It's awful. (US: It's gotten bad)

From what I can gather Steirische music is more popular in parts of America than the lands of its origin ... it remains marmite, along with the related sound of Scottish full musette.

Typically, the range of instruments, in terms of specification and cost, is as varied as any other squeezebox genre ...from cheap to £exclamation! ($wow!)

 

[Deleted member 48]

I have seen the charming barrel accordion by Franz Parz in a YT fragment of a TV series. Think it was in "Unterweg " ("on the road"). He actually demonstrates the box and fills a glass of Schnapps.
Parz Harmonikas have great ideas, they also have one week holidays with starter coursers on Steirisch Harmonika.

Steirisch Harmonika competitions now include pieces that are atypical for bisonoric diatonic accordions like musette waltzes, even some jazzy style can be heard.
This is also the case in Russian garmoshka events and competitions.
Many players testing the possibilities of diatonic boxes, off course with limited music keys, tunings or modulations.

I see a similar thing in France with jazz on Diatonic boxes.

 

[AccordionUprising]

Hans-Peter Falkner of the Austrian duo Attwenger plays one of these electrified. Good fun.

Attwengers music is an unusual combination of Upper Austrian folk music and hip-hop, with lyrics sung (and rapped) in Upper Austrian dialect. Falkner often plays his accordion through effects pedals to give his instrument a distorted timbre similar to that of an electric guitar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attwenger

http://attwenger.at/

 

[Deleted member 48]

Another example is the YT video "Bayerischer Musette " by A. Hackl. Sounds just like an early musette or liscio waltz.