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5 row button non-diatonic accordion
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:26 am
by Shuggy
I've recently bought one of these to go with my collection of small pipes, big pipes, bigger pipes, whistles, and spoons. Does anyone else have one & what are they like as ballast? What are CC jamming sessions like? Anyone recorded one? Yours in 5 row button hell,
Shuggy
Re: 5 row button non-diatonic accordion
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:32 am
by Nick
Shuggy wrote: Anyone recorded one?
Be very afraid
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:07 am
by Shuggy
Oh Christ - let's end this thread here! Actually, on second thoughts, I wouldn't be out of place. What's more worrying (apart from the wind which is trying to rip my house apart and I dread to think what it's doing to the boat) is that the only forumite I have met is Claysie who came aboard for a couple of drams in Tobermory - and I don't recognise him in the video! Mind you, it was dark...
Re: 5 row button non-diatonic accordion
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:18 am
by Clyde_Wanderer
The Culture Club I guess. well seeing I wasent there.
Re: 5 row button non-diatonic accordion
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:29 am
by Mark
Gerry Springer was there!
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:00 pm
by Telo
Button accordion sounds like a tickety boo contribution. I wouldn't pay too much attention attention to Nick's link - it was taken at another meet altogether.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:44 pm
by sahona
Agree with Sgeir. Spent a crackin' night in the company of one, and it was nothing like wot you have just heard - that was Boobies fault, honest!
Re: 5 row button non-diatonic accordion
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:44 pm
by Clyde_Wanderer
Shuggy wrote:I've recently bought one of these to go with my collection of small pipes, big pipes, bigger pipes, whistles, and spoons. Does anyone else have one & what are they like as ballast? What are CC jamming sessions like? Anyone recorded one? Yours in 5 row button hell,
Shuggy
Are these acccordians worth anything?
I was given one a couple of years ago by a friend who had it in his attic for a good few years and wanted rid of it, but after having it for a while without been able to attach 2 cords together I felt it only proper to give it back to him as it had belonged to his father and I dident have a use for it.
I believe it is back in his attic now.
Incidently have any of you heard of an accordianist called Gordon Young?
Gordon is a friend of mine, and a professional muscisian, I will try to get him to the Clyde meet up as he would be great entertainment for a night or two.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:46 am
by Shuggy
Eamonn
They are indeed worth something - I had to pay £300 for my dodgy continental model and new (cheap) ones are about £900. They seem to fly off eBay; the only reason I got mine so cheaply was that I bought it off a bloke in Malta and I think it put most bidders off.
Mine looks a bit like
this.
Have a scout around and see what I mean. I'm back to the age-old problem of (not) being able to co-ordinate my left and right hands. But I'm getting better...
Here's to a noisy New Year!
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:56 am
by sahona
Ah, that looks more like a Jimmy shand job. I was thinking of a traditional hexagonal squeezebox.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:54 pm
by Wildbird
Well, if anyone's got a DG melodeon, or a concertina that they're not using, I'd love to offer it a home! Ex hubby went off with the melodeons, just when I was getting to grips with playing them.
Re: 5 row button non-diatonic accordion
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:31 am
by Booby Trapper
Clyde_Wanderer wrote:Shuggy wrote:I've recently bought one of these to go with my collection of small pipes, big pipes, bigger pipes, whistles, and spoons. Does anyone else have one & what are they like as ballast? What are CC jamming sessions like? Anyone recorded one? Yours in 5 row button hell,
Shuggy
Incidently have any of you heard of an accordianist called Gordon Young?
Gordon is a friend of mine, and a professional muscisian, I will try to get him to the Clyde meet up as he would be great entertainment for a night or two.
If there are any professional musicians going count me out.
Re: 5 row button non-diatonic accordion
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:03 am
by Clyde_Wanderer
Booby Trapper wrote:Clyde_Wanderer wrote:Shuggy wrote:I've recently bought one of these to go with my collection of small pipes, big pipes, bigger pipes, whistles, and spoons. Does anyone else have one & what are they like as ballast? What are CC jamming sessions like? Anyone recorded one? Yours in 5 row button hell,
Shuggy
Incidently have any of you heard of an accordianist called Gordon Young?
Gordon is a friend of mine, and a professional muscisian, I will try to get him to the Clyde meet up as he would be great entertainment for a night or two.
If there are any professional musicians going count me out.
Ian, that is overly generous of you, not wanting to give my mate Gordon a showing up.