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  1. @mayor
    It’s a nice size for a traveling #accordion with more than the almost less than minimum 12 bass

    But getting 48 bass will let you maintain a compact size, with a good flexibility

    @Geoffberner has stormed the globe by dirigible with his 48 bass Estelle 🪗

    Make sure you get the newer “square” 48 with the 7ths and Diminisheds

    There’s a rectangular 48 that just added a few columns to what you’ve got, with a counterbass row

    In the attached it’s ringed in orange, the square 48 is brown

  2. 🎶 ☠️ 🩷 🤍🩶
    #theMadMaggies 2026

    I have the pleasure of playing with the finest players this side of the Andromeda Galaxy.

    There are seven August shows for you to come and dance to the best band you've never heard of. ;-)

    themadmaggies.com/calendar/

    Gary Wium #Guitar
    Mark Nemoyten, #Trumpet
    John Farey, #Trombone
    Todd Silverstein, #AltoSax
    Vic Carberry, #Drums
    yours madly, Mags, #Accordion
    Art Springs, #BariSax
    Tim Sarter, #Bass

    #Music #WomenComposers #LiveMusic

  3. #theMadMaggies is not a cover band but we did record one album of vintage hits.

    Here from that album is our version of the 1966 hit by Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces with Chico Jenkins.

    "Searching for My Love "

    youtu.be/gQIkO0SZM_M

    One of my all time favs.

    #theMadMaggies #Music
    #Accordion #Tuba #Trombone #AltoSax #Clarinet
    #Guitar #Bass #Drums

  4. @soundclamp
    Bet $1+ that’s a harmonium reed organ

    Accordionists would have to take a breath to change bellows directions

    There might be some noise incorporated from a fan driving the sound

    Or it could be a pump-organ type, which has two bellows — one to pump in air, which inflates a chamber where another bellows releases a steady stream of air through the reeds

    The inner bellows is very cleverly hidden and mysterious 🤫 🪗
    #Harmonium #accordion
    #organology #ChordOrgan

  5. @CharlieMcHenry
    And (not to jack your thread, but to add further #MusicTrivia)

    It was #organ builders who added crucial differences to 3,000 year old free reed designs imported from Asia

    These “westernized” free reed organs then developed into everything from the #harmonica, #harmonium and #accordion

    Nobody’s quite sure, but it might have been one of a few German guys working in Copenhagen who showed them off in Saint Petersburg (#WorldMusic 1780)
    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10 🪗

  6. @paul_ipv6 @skyfire747 @mykie
    Larger cousin of perhaps my favourite early free reed, the Melophone*

    Like a miniature lap-cello with a push-pump on the bottom to control its bellows-fed reed organ insides

    Again fantastic metal button-board on the neck. I would probably start crying if I got to play one of these some day 😭

    *Not the Mellophone horn 🎺
    metmuseum.org/art/collection/s
    #TheMet #Accordion #Harmonium #cello

  7. @quietsnail not sure

    Maybe you could still press with the feet you “key” with

    But you’d need a way to hold those notes while the bellows continues in and out

    Maybe add a strap over one or both feet like an #accordion bass strap?

    Related instruments would be the: basse aux pieds / foot bass; #harmonium pump reed #organ; shruti box (keyless drone reed organ); and 1800s lap reed organ

  8. @quietsnail @AccordionBruce
    I wish there was a basse aux pieds / foot bass variant that produced drones like a harmonium or shruti box

    I think the standard ones only produce sounds on the press?

    It would need a secondary reservoir bellows to allow for continuous airflow — that would be pretty cool 😎

    #FolkMusic #Harmonium #accordion

  9. If you love Jamaican ska from the late 50s/early 60s, have a listen to our version of a Baba Brooks classic "Vitamin A" Lots of horns. Even, a bass clarinet! And, yes, an accordion because accordions belong everywhere. ;-)

    youtu.be/G_tUSRXaq9U

    #theMadMaggies #Accordion #Guitar #Bass #Drums #Trombone #Tuba #Trumpet #AltoSax #BassClarinet
    #Ska #BabaBrooks

  10. SEARCHING FOR MY LOVE

    I always loved this tune and was super happy to have a chance to sing and record a version.

    musicshop.themadmaggies.com/tr

    The Mad Maggies play the classic Muscle Shoals soul tune, original by Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces with Chico Jenkins 1966

    #theMadMaggies #Accordion #Guitar #Bass #Drums #Trombone #Tuba #Trumpet #AltoSax #Clarinet
    #WomenComposers #BandCampFriday