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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. @accordionnoir
    Great photo and story. I’d forgotten Rockin’ Dopsie played #accordion left handed and upside-down
    🪗🔄
    #Zydeco #Louisiana

  3. @graham.dunning @furiousgreencloud
    If every #KingCrimson #Beatles or #MoodyBlues album had a Lawrence Welk #accordion solo coming out of their #Mellotron

    If they happen to sound really cool run through phasing or whatever?

    The world might be a happier place 🌼 🪗
    #ProgRock
    #Synth
    #PolkaMania 2029

  4. @grantpotter @accordionnoir
    Be interesting to know if it’s just availability, or cost or style?

    Some of the nicest one-row so called #Cajun accordions have been custom built in #Louisiana over the years

    Not so, larger three-rows, or fully chromatic piano #accordion like Clifton Chénier played that made it possible to mix in blues and R&B to create #zydeco

    Early one-row 🪗 couldn’t play #blues easily so it got left out of most Black American music 🤷🏽

    #Zydeco is the exception with backstory

  5. @grantpotter @accordionnoir

    @grantpotter @accordionnoir
    🪗 didact 2:

    And I think Boozoo Chavez was mostly known for playing three-row diatonic #accordion, not the one-row that became more popular with younger #Creole #zydeco players
    antonesrecords.bandcamp.com/al

  6. @tuftyindigo
    My friend Jared Snyder researched the lost English-speaking African American square-dance #accordion tradition that Lead Belly sprang from (it was LB’s first instrument)

    Chenier’s Berkeley recording is Jared’s favourite because you can hear his left hand playing those blues base lines

    Pretty much all his later recordings he got a band with bass guitar together

    On that one it’s just Clifton, his brother Cleveland on rubboard and a drummer

    #Zydeco’s #blues mix from the source

  7. @tuftyindigo
    That’s a very important recording because it’s Chenier’s first performance in front of a white kind of college folk/blues revival audience

    If you listen to it, imagine if somebody had played #zydeco #blues #accordion like that (as Clifton had been doing since the 1950s) on national TV like Ed Sullivan with The Beatles

    Millions of kids taking accordion lessons at the time might have made the world a different place

  8. @tuftyindigo
    I think Chenier probably had piezoelectric mic internally mounted inside his #accordion at times

    That was kind of top-of-the-line Accordion amplification for a long time

    Accordion ended up about 40 years behind the guitar in amplification by the 1970s. And has never caught up

    You can most clearly hear the technology in the recording at Berkeley from 1966 because he’s performing just with his brother on rubboard and a drummer
    youtu.be/I11Pvvjpa4o
    #zydeco

  9. Tonight’s episode of @accordionnoir radio will praise the protesters in #LosAngeles standing up (with an occasional #accordion) against abuses of power 🪧

    Also #Zydeco rubboard master Cleveland Chenier’s birthday — the day before mine
    (approaching #CliftonChenier’s 💯th birthday, June 25, 1925)

    And a farewell to #BrianWilson accordion aficionado 🏖️

    AccordionNoir.org

  10. @colorblindcowboy @thereisnocat
    Pretty sure Woody’s recordings are mostly over on Smithsonian/Folkways,(for now)

    Some at the Library of Congress issued by Electra/Rounder in the 90s and are streaming but the extensive notes are missing 😤

    #Folkways keeps the old Arhoolie Records albums available — including tons of #zydeco #conjunto & #cajun #accordion because unlike the rest of the US folk revival, Austrian-born Chris Strachwitz was not afraid of the squeezebox

    folkways.si.edu/search?query=A

  11. It’s #Blues man Muddy Waters birthday today, April 4 (1913-ish) and to celebrate him starting off on harmonica and a “broken down #accordion” this week’s episode of @accordionnoir radio is a tangle of different squeezebox blues styles

    From Muddy Waters himself (with #GarthHudson of The Band on 🪗) to #CountryMusic #Klezmer #CajunMusic #Zydeco #Bluegrass and #Jazz

    With the world as it is, a little blues seemed like the thing to do
    accordionuprising.wordpress.co
    ❤️‍🔥✌🏼🪗

  12. Forró Da Nêgah
    by Nêgah Santos
    forrodalua.bandcamp.com/album/

    Best thing I did today was search for #Brasilian #Forro on #Bandcamp! 🪗 🪘🔼

    I recommend #AccordionBandcamp acts this coming #BandcampFriday May 5th

    We’ll play some on @AccordionNoir radio tonight

    Follow us or AccordionNoir.org for playlist and podcast announcements

    #accordion #brazil #ComnunityRadio #Vancouver #CoopRadio