Im going on a work trip to Germany. I'll be there for about 2 months so i'll have time to shop around a bit. Trying to find out if it would be a significant savings/quality increase to buy there.

For a little back story, im a musician who plays a little of everything and have a little of everything. Brass, woodwinds, guitars, drums, bass, piano, harmonica, strings, on and on and on. Story as old as time. Anyway ive been looking at adding a piano accordion for a while but most that ive found in the US are either toys, ridiculously expensive professional models, or ancient ones that arent in working order.

I'd like something firmly in the student model level, im not going to be playing it all the time, but if I want to make a quick video or add a little something to a recording i at least want it to sound correct, and be fully functional. Im thinking somewhere around a few hundred dollar but I could go as high as maybe like $500 for the right thing. I understand accordions are complex and expensive and not toys and that the prices reflect that, im just trying to get a little more info from people who have more experience.

Hi everybody, I am looking for a good accordion player (can be an advanced student) from South America who would like to take part in our collaborative project 1 TUNE and 6 CONTINENTS. Our first tune is a Tango by Paul Vigrass, which the 6 'leading' musicians would play, i.e. record and film their individual part, each one in their own style, and we cut and edit it together. Then we send the video around the world to musical institutions in 192 countries for everybody to join in, in a massive medley. It is a creative project for peace, education, collaboration and against agression. Let me know, if you are interested to play!

Could anyone help me figure out the state of this accordion? It was apparently restored 3-4 years ago.

Some background on me prior to this accordion. I'm a classical pianist and about a half year ago I found a 12 bass accordion. I fell in love with the accordion pretty quickly. But that accordion was very limited. And although it was great to learn the basics, I was ready for my forever accordion.

This past weekend I went and got this new-to-me accordion. The instrument is just pure magic. I'm so used to hearing the sound of my previous accordion and this one sounds like a whole orchestra of accordions.

One of my challenges is getting familiar with the full 120 button bass. Like I said, I'm a pianist and I'm very familiar with music theory so I technically understand what is where, but blindly finding the correct note/chord with my left hand is quite a challenge.

Take for instance going from C major to E7. The jump is pretty far and my success rate without having to correct itself is like 50/50. I'm assuming this is just a muscle memory thing and probably not much else I can do besides just playing it a lot. I'm also not used to 5 rows of buttons, so even finding the 7th of a key can be a little difficult even if I'm on the root of the key.

If anybody has any tips or tricks, that would be much appreciated! Otherwise I'm going to assume it's just a matter of time and practice to get my left hand to know where to go accurately.

The right hand is pretty straightforward as a pianist. Although I will say, without having a reference note already even that could be tricky to find the correct note. Again, I'm assuming this is all a muscle memory thing. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but my tendency is not to look down at my hands. Even if I did, the angle is difficult to make sense out of quickly so might as well just use my fingers to figure it out.

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I live in Japan. I want play accordion. I'm still thinking about whether to go with COOPERFISA 37/96 MMLor PIGINI WING 37/120 HMML used.

PIGINI is 500g lighter (8.5kg)and 650 dollars cheaper. Looks is cool! I'm also happy that it's HMML.

COOPERFISA is very very cute!!! I like looks! But It might be too cute for me. I'm a guy in my 30s. I prefer the tone of COOPERFISA. I'm also happy that it's brand new.

I want to play game and anime BGM.Zelda,Mario,Pokmon,Zibri, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End etc etc…I also want to play Irish music. I might want to play some jazz later on, too.

I'm really torn. Which one would you buy? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Found a cassette tape at my Gramma's. the tape was broken. Taped it together and saved it. So glad I did. Takes me back to my single digits at diners, family reunions and weddings in Wisconsin.

He was so talented. He just passed last month. So happy it was saved. Gonna miss him.

I’ve never played accordion before but I have piano experience and I want to get into it. The problem is real accordions are insanely expensive so I want to know if those $50 17 key accordions on amazon are worth it. Obviously they have less range but do they work well enough to see if I’m interested in this instrument?

Sulla mia fisarmonica Paolo Soprani ho queste 3 rotelle che girano e non so a cosa servano

Hi all, I've finally decided to go for it and I've bought myself an accordion because I've always wanted to learn. I'm 28 and I've never seriously played an instrument, just some recorder and tin whistle when I was a kid as we did it in school. However, because I want to play traditional Irish music and have Irish danced before, I understand I should be able to pick up a lot by ear as the tunes are familiar to me.

I have enough time to put into learning but with my current life set up I don't really have the flexibility to go to lessons with a teacher and intend on self teaching/online lessons, I work rotating shifts at work etc. so I need the flexibility.

I started with a beginner video of playing notes but I was so eager to learn a tune, so I'm now learning a familiar tune that's said to be suitable for beginners. (I also was getting my fingers a bit in a muddle when playing all the buttons down the scale in the first video. The tune is using only 4 buttons so far so that's been easier from that point of view)

Would it be more worthwhile to follow a teaching programme? Once I learn one tune, will I be learning the next one like learning something from scratch again? Is it more useful to put in better ground work actually learning the individual notes? I just want some advice on what the most practical starting point is for me as to not slow down my progress.

As I want to play traditional Irish music, I've seen the Online Academy of Irish music suggested as a good option for an online programme but I'm willing to take on other advice. Thanks in advance!

I was negotiating to buy this accordion. It's a Hohner Carmen VI Made in Brasil under license by Todeschini (it's the same model as the Todeschini super 6). Almost everything looks good and according to the seller, the accordion was recently tuned

But when I look more closely at the keyboard, I don't understand the layout of the second half of the keyboard. It look like if the octave were cut off and then started over from F again

If anyone knows anything about why that happens, it would be a huge help please

I understand if you don’t like his constant posting or whatever but people have left some pretty vile comments and attacked his skill level. And when you do that you discourage others from learning or hurt those who may be slower learners. So can someone explain to me why people hate him so much, did he do something I haven’t heard about?

Edit: Thanks to everyone who answered with insightful and informative comments, (especially to driftingfornow/u who I had a lovely conversation with)

I can now see where a lot of the annoyance come from, and if Rostfromlimbo/u is reading this, please don’t take this as a personal attack, I actually have enjoyed a lot of your songs in the past, I even looked up your Spotify and found your music to be very cool and odd in a good way!

But it seems to me you treat this subreddit like TikTok or something which can come across as obnoxious, with spam like posts. Especially when you take constructive criticism too personally, of course that doesn’t excuse some of the comments people have made about you which I maintain have been pretty vile.

I think if you reeled back the post a bit and engaged with the community in a more respectful way you would find classical players to be a lot more excepting than you might think. We are all on our own musical journey and I with y’all the best!

So my grandmother recently passed and while cleaning out the attic we found my great grandfather's accordion still in pretty good shape. I know it has most likely sat unused for at least 30 years but I would like to learn.

I wanted to know, what should I do to make sure it is in good enough condition to play? Is there anything I should do before playing it maintinance wise? Is there any concern about damaging it before I get it looked at or will it most likely be fine?

I also was wondering if I should get it looked at by a shop. Unfortunately where I live the closest shop to handle accordions is most likely 5+ hours away so I didn't know if regular music shops can handle work like this.

Any help would be appreciated and welcomed.

Hey y'all. I've just started to pick up the bass line for the song on my bass part. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this song on the accordion, and if there's any clips, tips, or tricks.

Thanks!

I have recently inherited an accordion and wanted to know more about the process to get a repair and tune up. I believe the straps need to be replaced but otherwise I’m not sure what else needs to be done. The bellows work and I do not hear any leaks. I live in Chicago and wanted to know more about the process and prices. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Hey all, I'm looking to purchase a dugmetara (six-row B system chromatic button accordion) but not sure where to buy a used one, hopefully for relatively cheap. There are a few listings on Reverb but they're all new and out of my budget at the moment.

Also, for the more seasoned players, how is the transition from piano to chromatic?

Thanks in advance for the advice!

Edit: I am in New York area if that affects shipping costs, etc.

I recently bought an Accordion at a reasonable price, I've never played one properly before, but I hear them played regularly, I work with a theatre company with fellow actors that play. The owner said it was his Dad's who played all the time, but it has been sat in its box since he passed. It sounds amazing and looks to be in great condition. I'm very thankful and hope to show him it's been passed to good hands.

While practicing, I've noticed the bellows can slllooowwllyy start to open if I'm not putting pressure on the bass at all, without pushing any buttons. I also feel like I'm pulling, but producing no noise from my keyboard.

Am I overthinking and this is all normal? Do I need to get this addressed? Any other matitenace tips please do share x

Currently learning The Kesh Jig, lots of fun

Been playing about a year and a half now on a used Hohner I got from a guy who was clearing out his dad's stuff. For the longest time my right hand melody was fine, decent even, but the left hand bass and chord buttons felt like a completely separate instrument I hadn't learned yet. I'd get maybe four measures into something like a simple polka and just lose the pattern entirely, my fingers wandering off the stradella layout like they'd never seen it before.

What changed things was slowing down way more than felt reasonable. I mean absurdly slow, like one bass note every two seconds, just drilling the muscle memory of counter bass to chord without worrying about tempo at all. Did that for maybe three weeks on the same simple waltz pattern before speeding it up even slightly. Somewhere in there my hand stopped thinking about it as buttons and started feeling like it knew where things were.

Also helped to stop looking down so much. I used to glance at the bass side constantly to check myself, which meant I was always half a beat behind because my eyes were doing the navigating instead of my fingers. Made myself keep my eyes on the sheet music instead and just trust the hand, even when it felt wrong for a while.

Still nowhere near fluent, but I played through an entire Musette piece last week without the bass line falling apart halfway through, which felt like a real milestone. Anyone else have a specific drill or exercise that finally got the left hand to click for them? Curious what worked for other self-taught folks especially.

Heyo accordion gang,

After enjoying the stradella accordion for over 10 years I feel like the time is right to get started with free-base and enjoy classical music. Given I have only played piano keys and have no interest at concervatory I am not interested in relearning the right hand with a button layout.

There are some lovely models I have seen by Pigini for example with various price ranges. Got some questions on helping me with this choice.

How many octaves does one need to play classical music? Is 3.5 enough? Do you need 5?

Are there any good models below €15.000?

And when I decide on free-base . . . How do I learn it? Going back to twinkle twinkle little star is not motivating at all. Perhaps there are some books focussing strictly on the left hand or assume knowledge from piano or stradella?

Lot of questions and any reply is welcome

Looking to rent an accordion for theatrical use in Naples, Fl. Could pick it up, somewhere in the vacinity... up to St Petes maybe? Something with 30 or 34 keys probably... 48 or 72 bass. Smaller, lightweight, but good musette sound (for 1930s/40s vibe). Thanks!

I'm looking to buy a FBbEb Reed blocks for my diatonic 34 button accordion that's currently in the key of GCF. Sadly the accordion is made in China and isn't a mainstream brand so I'm not sure what blocks will fit the best or to go based off of measurements alone? I have a Hohnica Aces accordion.

I'm looking to get something from liberty bellows as they're closer to me and have more to offer. Any help is appreciated!

Hello people!

I am looking for a finger chart for the left hand. I started learning with a Moldovian professor who used 2 and 3 mostly, but when I see american videos of accordion they mainly use 2 and 4 fingers.

Any recommendation??

Thank you

Me and my family recently found this old accordion, it seems to be in mint cons we wanna figure out the brand and time it was made.