Excellent music and a very fine musette sound too. Wow, I didn't know there were blue accordions in the 1970s!
Walker: I thought the musette was excellent as well but didn't mention it as I wanted anybody interested to focus on the tune itself.
I think the accordion on the picture might be a Galanti. However it was not uncommon for accordionists to be pictured with an accordion solely for advertising reasons while it was actually another accordion being used on the recording.
That said I'd be willing to go along with the fact that it's actually a Galanti on this recording. The musette is actually shown to better effect on some other tracks on this CD (This 'CD' actually started life as an LP but I digitised it at some stage).
The LP was made in 1976 by DJM Records Ltd., London. Please let me know if you have any further interest.
How and who tunes your accordion is a very personal matter. In my early stages I consulted John Crawford of Freughie in Fife (sadly deceased).
People as far away as the USA trusted John with their accordions. John was very much an old fashioned tuner (as far as I know and observed) as he relied much more on his ear than on a 'mechanical' tuner.
I recently had a Morino 1VM here for checking ( the type oval white couplers). As soon as I put it on I wanted it!!!! A brilliant musette and so responsive in an accordion about sixty years old. A few musette settings had wandered off a bit but having sampled the other settings in the viscinity of the faulty one it's fairly simple to bring it back into line. The hard work setting up the original musette had already been done. Sadly I had to hand it back. The lesson is those accordions are out there; the hard part is finding them.
Tom: I tend to agree the tune has a very North Atlantic, maybe backwoods feel. Sadly the player of the tune is no longer here so that source of knowledge is not available.
