I've been gradually and steadily interested in accordians the past 15 years - and took up playing the hammered dulcimer about oh 25-30 years ago I guess. Oddly, I guess - given my background, but pleasingly, I've come to use accordians (and tenor banjos, fiddle)as my primary instrument for entertaining. Whenever I can -be motivated - I play the HD. I like the Scottish/Irish forms on HD - I play a mix of jigs, reels, pibroch, airs..and polka of course!
Come to find - these two (accordion and HD) are prolific instruments in my area of origin - Great Lakes (MI, USA). Ironically - having never been remotely intersted in these as a youth - I'm increasingly interested in the playing tradition as they derive in my geographic heritage, etc. Maybe this is another way of saying, that - now that I'm mid-50s - I can embrace Dutch Hop music? (at least, theoretically )
Curious - I'd like to know where else in the world these two instrument/dance traditions exist. I presume maybe Poland and eastern Europe? Etc.
Many thanks -
Come to find - these two (accordion and HD) are prolific instruments in my area of origin - Great Lakes (MI, USA). Ironically - having never been remotely intersted in these as a youth - I'm increasingly interested in the playing tradition as they derive in my geographic heritage, etc. Maybe this is another way of saying, that - now that I'm mid-50s - I can embrace Dutch Hop music? (at least, theoretically )
Curious - I'd like to know where else in the world these two instrument/dance traditions exist. I presume maybe Poland and eastern Europe? Etc.
Many thanks -