Why Practice at All?

[henry d]

Voila- your problems are solved...

AUTOMATIC ACCORDION WITH INTEGRATED MP3 they only come for sale once in amoon is a unique handcrafted instrument equipped with an auto amplified audio system, powered by rechargeable lithium-ion battery with charger supplied (European plug,but supplied with a UK converter ) with an autonomy of about eight hours with the volume at 50% This specially modeled system has the characteristic of faithfully reproducing the ACCORDION sound with MP3 technology as if it were played live! Impress your friends wear this accordion and PRETEND PLAY THE MELODY ON THE KEYS, NO ONE WILL KNOW THAT ITS NOT YOU PLAYING she plays and accompanies you the selected song with real acoustic accordion sound, with More than 200 beautiful melodies within-contained, in the eyes of the observer you will look like an accordion orchestra, the sound will leave no doubt, excellent performance for making street music, piano bar, in characteristic pubs, cellars, restaurants, etc. play your songs on the keys and you can also sing like karaoke while the music accompanies you and you can enchant your audience with over 200 melodies in memory included , you can add up to 500 + other melodies on your SD or mini SD card P.S. the change of tracks can be managed by buttons located on the control panel on the back of the Gadget , or by a special remote control supplied with the instrument! You may also use your iPhone or iPod MORE INTRODUCTORY SPECIFICS &DESCRIPTION Very good Condition (Seller modified). £1980. SELF PLAYING Accordion Piano in very good condition THIS LOVELY ACCORDION HAS BEEN CONVERTED AND PLAYS ON ITS OWN ,COMES WITH BRAND NEW STRAPS YOU CAN PRETEND PLAYING IT AND NO ONE WILL KNOW it comes with a special battery Which lasts minimum 5hours depending on the volume you are using it and a battery charger ,also with an 8Gig memory card full of Old and classic English music you can play your own music or record your favourite songs ,YOU WILL LOVE IT From that universe of completely vetted and absolutely surefire items. https://www.ebay.com/itm/3855277186...Kw==|tkp:Bk9SR7akq_3VYg&LH_ItemCondition=4|10 I am in no way shape or form connected with this thing or its sale other than being astounded, flabbergasted, taken aback, and generally sceptical. Henry

 

[Ventura]

someone apparently figured out a way to improve a chinese made box
actually making it sound like a quality Italian instrument with error correcting
software (similar to the thing they use to correct the Vocalists pitch) so
no matter which note you play it autocorrects to the note that you should have played

kewl

a similar design buttonbox has been on CList in Virginia,
some madman gutted it then installed an auto-type cassette deck/radio
and speakers with a 12 volt power supply

 

[Vladimir M.]

Hi,

AUTOMATIC ACCORDION

Like this? I don't know which is worse, fake player or fake playing. But it is the trend of today's world. There are already autopilots not only in airplanes, but also in cars. Fake pilots, fake drivers, oh yea. There is only one risk left: if your "accordion autopilot" suddenly shuts off, as happened with the AF447 autopilot, your music production will crash...

Best regards, Vladimir

 

[Rosie C]

The photo isn't one of them, but this post reminded me of a friend (now departed) who built 'orchestrian' pianolas. They were fascinating - as well as having holes for all the notes, the paper rolls had holes for "violin on", "violin off" etc, and the whole thing was like an Edwardian MIDI system.

I know some of the instruments were fake - e.g. one had a violin on top, but the "violin" sound came from pipes, and the violin was just for show. But she also built pianolas with accordions. The bellow movement was definitely fake, but I can't remember whether the accordion reeds were actually hooked up to the pianola vacuum system. Sadly, she's passed away now so I can't check.

 

[TomBR]

I think the demographic of this site will stand this one!

"A man goes to the doctor, a very "modern practice" (for the 1960s) and after the consultation the doctor hands him a punched card and tells him to come back in three weeks time.
On the day of the appointment the man can't find the punched card anywhere.
He asks his son who says "Sorry, I put it in the pianola and it played 'Nearer my God to thee!' "

(A favourite funeral hymn!)

 

[debra]

Long ago I visited the MIT Media Lab and in the (large) basement they had a Bösendorfer grand piano that was operated by computer. It was amazing: it could play music that was impossible for humans (plural) to play on a single piano because you could not fit the number of people required to play all the notes that were being played simultaneously. It was like Rachmaninov on (a lot of) steroids.

 

[JeffJetton]

they only come for sale once in amoon

So... every month then?

BTW, I visited the (amazing!) World of Accordions last month. They actually had a "player" accordion that used punched rolls similar to a player piano. All you had to do was push/pull the bellows. Next to is was a similar, smaller, harmonica-type instrument. You just had to blow into it and crank a tape of paper along the front.

 

[Tom]

I believe all the Roland’s do this as well, playing from a USB stick.

 

[Ventura]

you have to smile big when the USB stick is playing or it doesn't work

 

[JerryPH]

A few years ago I went to a cousin's Christmas party and brought my then new to me Roland... I put it on my uncle told him to turn sideways a little bit away from the audience and then hit the buttons to start the demo songs... suddenly he was as good as Galliano, for at least as long as that song played!

 

[losthobos]

Legend has it that way back when the player piano was born the old real 'need a player' pianos were dumped out in the streets and bar owners no longer had to pay pianists...
Said pianos were taken by the impoverished black community and boogie woogie was born.....

 

[Jaime_Dergut]

Haha, these guys at Roland are arriving way too late to the party.

The gypsy scammers have already been playing accordions for years without practice!

 

[Alan Sharkis]

When I was teaching homebound kids academic stuff in NYC, one of them had a beautiful Chickering grand piano. I asked him if anyone in his family played. He told me that his mom, who used to sing, played it, but now, when she plugs it in, nothing happens. I took a closer look at the piano and discovered that it was a reproducing piano, as opposed to an ordinary player. It had an Ampico reproducing mechanism in it. I was surprised to see that. I told my student that there were specialists who could restore such an instrument but it would be expensive, and would not bring much money if they were to sell it to anyone but a collector or a museum.

Sounds kind of like the situation with pre-WW2 accordions.

 

[Squeezebox Of Delights]

I know some of the instruments were fake - e.g. one had a violin on top, but the "violin" sound came from pipes, and the violin was just for show. But she also built pianolas with accordions. The bellow movement was definitely fake, but I can't remember whether the accordion reeds were actually hooked up to the pianola vacuum system.

Mechanical accordions are commonly found on European dance organs built between the 20s and the present day. From what I know, The bellows are sprung closed, and when the register for the accordion is turned on, a valve lets air into the bellows, opening them out. The keys and buttons are operated from behind the accordion, using solenoids or pneumatics. So yes, they do really play, but the bellows are more for decoration. As for the 'violin' registers found on orchestrions etc., they're referring to violin pipes, a specific type of flue pipe that was invented centuries ago to imitate stringed instruments. They don't usually sound very convincing, but it's the thought that counts!
Going back to dance organs, Decap built instruments that not only featured mechanical accordions, but mechanical saxophones as well. Unfortunately, the saxophones are fake, with the sound produced by hidden pipes, and the keys rigged to move automatically. The Decap organs are amazing pieces of machinery, usually featuring several accordions, organ pipes, xylophones and vibraphones, a full drum kit and even a Hammond organ, all controlled by punched cards. Sometimes they even had human-sized robots 'playing' the instruments!

 

[Alan Sharkis]

Mechanical accordions are commonly found on European dance organs built between the 20s and the present day. From what I know, The bellows are sprung closed, and when the register for the accordion is turned on, a valve lets air into the bellows, opening them out. The keys and buttons are operated from behind the accordion, using solenoids or pneumatics. So yes, they do really play, but the bellows are more for decoration. As for the 'violin' registers found on orchestrions etc., they're referring to violin pipes, a specific type of flue pipe that was invented centuries ago to imitate stringed instruments. They don't usually sound very convincing, but it's the thought that counts!
Going back to dance organs, Decap built instruments that not only featured mechanical accordions, but mechanical saxophones as well. Unfortunately, the saxophones are fake, with the sound produced by hidden pipes, and the keys rigged to move automatically. The Decap organs are amazing pieces of machinery, usually featuring several accordions, organ pipes, xylophones and vibraphones, a full drum kit and even a Hammond organ, all controlled by punched cards. Sometimes they even had human-sized robots 'playing' the instruments!

Having watched a man repair and restore band organs at an amusement park, I became interested enough in mechanical music to read all I could find about it. Mechanical music devices can range from fascinating, rare, and expensive to inexpensive music box mechanisms with plastic parts made in China.

This also reminds me of accordions.

 

[Ventura]

one of the dives i played as a youth in the east end of Pittsburgh
had a balcony over the bar with a collection of old automaton music
machines, the centerpiece was a full band of Red Stripe Suited
mechanical Monkeys that played Swing and moved like crazy man !

they literally "Aped" the Red Rose Tea commercial we all saw
as Kids on the TV.. it was the best mechanical music thing i ever saw

here in DC the Marlo Furniture store had an owner who was a
collector of crazy things as well, and he had one of those huge multi
instrument automatons inside the entrance to his laurel MD. store
which was a party in itself ! kids would stand there and stare while
Parents shopped

 

[Rosie C]

Mechanical accordions are commonly found on European dance organs built between the 20s and the present day. From what I know, The bellows are sprung closed, and when the register for the accordion is turned on, a valve lets air into the bellows, opening them out. The keys and buttons are operated from behind the accordion, using solenoids or pneumatics. So yes, they do really play, but the bellows are more for decoration. As for the 'violin' registers found on orchestrions etc., they're referring to violin pipes, a specific type of flue pipe that was invented centuries ago to imitate stringed instruments. They don't usually sound very convincing, but it's the thought that counts!
Going back to dance organs, Decap built instruments that not only featured mechanical accordions, but mechanical saxophones as well. Unfortunately, the saxophones are fake, with the sound produced by hidden pipes, and the keys rigged to move automatically. The Decap organs are amazing pieces of machinery, usually featuring several accordions, organ pipes, xylophones and vibraphones, a full drum kit and even a Hammond organ, all controlled by punched cards. Sometimes they even had human-sized robots 'playing' the instruments!

Ah, yes, now you mention it, I remember the bellows opening. It's 30 years ago now - I was involved in a project to scan music rolls to MIDI files, and convert an "orchestrian" instrument to MIDI.

My role was with the scanning of the rolls, looking back it's a shame I didn't get more involved with the instruments.

 

[SteveBox]

Magic Accordion self playing midi instrument FOR SALE

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[dak]

Voila- your problems are solved...

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AUTOMATIC ACCORDION WITH INTEGRATED MP3 they only come for sale once in amoon is a unique handcrafted instrument equipped with an auto amplified audio system, powered by rechargeable lithium-ion battery with charger supplied (European plug,but supplied with a UK converter ) with an autonomy of about eight hours with the volume at 50% This specially modeled system has the characteristic of faithfully reproducing the ACCORDION sound with MP3 technology as if it were played live! Impress your friends wear this accordion and PRETEND PLAY THE MELODY ON THE KEYS, NO ONE WILL KNOW THAT ITS NOT YOU PLAYING

The original question "why practice at all?" still has the same answer as with an unmolested accordion: to avoid looking like an incompetent fool.

The sad thing is that the statement "handcrafted instrument" is likely correct, with the instrument having been crafted before someone ripped the reed blocks out and put in an MP3 player that will fool nobody.

 

[Ffingers]

The original question "why practice at all?" still has the same answer as with an unmolested accordion: to avoid looking like an incompetent fool.

The sad thing is that the statement "handcrafted instrument" is likely correct, with the instrument having been crafted before someone ripped the reed blocks out and put in an MP3 player that will fool nobody.

"...fool nobody."

Sorry but so many "nobodies" and others are quite easily fooled.
Politics, commerce and religions depend on it.