Accordion Superpowers
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2019
- Do you suffer from accordion prejudice? If so watch this video to learn what an incredibly instrument it really is.
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As an accordinst, I've never heard accordin talked about so highly!
yes, same here
Are you kidding me? Accordeon is definitely one of my top 5 instruments to write for.
Slightly de-tuned notes doesn't sound like bad chorus, it sounds like a great synth!
Yeah, and it's also an intentional sound, he made it sound like the reeds go out of tune with time which is not true.
You are 101 % correct.
Turtle Von Nurtle - Reeds do go out of tune over time depending on how much it’s used and stuff like rust.
@@Izakokomarixyz Fair. I guess I was thinking, compared to string instruments (and I'm including pianos), in my experience accordions hold their tune remarkably well. That said all my instruments are relatively new, and obviously an instrument that's spent decades in an attic or a garage is going to need some maintenance.
Yeah, although there's some cheesiness to the musette sound, it's still a super useful sound for playing melodies EVEN in orchestral context, I feel like it has a comfiness very particular to it
Accordion is an extremely important instrument in Brazilian music, from southern to northern styles! Amazing instrument!
Would love to see more prejudices towards certain instruments debunked!
Flute for example.
I might be a bit biased, but... I find the "oompah music" stereotypes for tuba to be a bit annoying. I feel that a lot of people immediately jump to the conclusion that it can only produce loud and raw sounds, while in reality it has the softest tone out of all the brass instruments.
Dare I say we need more violove (viola love)
But is there anything he can do for the highland bagpipe?
@@roadsofjoy43 what kind of prejudices are there against flutes?
Finally, someone standing up for the accordion. There's so much more to it than La vie en rose...
This is a well timed video for me... I just came back from a trip to Italy where I came across an accordion player who totally changed my mind on the instrument. Before I saw who was playing I would have sworn there was a church organ in the middle of the street! They were playing classical pieces with such a rich sound that blew me away
Have a good day - High Quality Bayans have that church organ sound, but those are very expensive.
11:37 Actually in 'Musette' setting, the three sets of reeds are tuned in unison (one slightly sharp and another flat), not in octaves
I also get annoyed that he says that this is unintentional or the result of a poorly conditioned instrument - this slightly out of tune sound is fully intentional.
cƒ. the 'celeste' stop on organs
Ohhhhh so that's why there are two settings on my accordion
Can we also get a video gushing about how good recorders can actually sound?
I'll believe it when I hear it
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It kinda sounds like a mechanical organ or something. I love it
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so for me the takeaways:
1) yes accordion is a fascinating and versatile instrument
2) I think I might hunt down some Pauline Oliveros recordings
Yeah Oliveros is the bomb
Andrew Studer Pauline Oliveros was the coolest lesbian grandma and the world will miss her. Requiescat in pace. :< Always glad to see new people get into her music, though.
In my experience playing with accordion in an ensemble has been super difficult to blend and made everything sound kinda noisy and muddy, besides having a hard time mixing out the dynamics and etc
But after the 5 composers video I changed my mind and now know it's probably a arranger/composer/player problem rather than a accordion problem.
Thank you so much for making this video David! ❤️
As an accordionist/composer myself it’s so great to get a complete breakdown to send to my friends and colleges.
David Bruce including Turisas in a video, the connections spread further every day!
What a cool idea to use an accordion instead of a church organ e.g. as accompaniment for choirs when there's no church around. I'll try that with my choir 😀
Originally bandoneon, the close accordion's relative, was invented as a cheap substitute for those churches which could not afford an organ.
@@sgkogan Oh wow! Didn't know that, but it makes so much sense!!!
It's still called a hand organ in German.
and don't forget the harmonium
Working at a nursing home in sweden I learned to love the accordion. A lot of great accordion players usually come by and play everything from old folksongs and church hymns to blues and jazz, and it is greatly recieved. Music is an amazing way for me to connect with the generations before me!
I like your forró pronunciation :D the double-r is, usually (varies with regional accents a bit) more like a voiceless velar or glottal fricative, so something between the English "h" in high and the German "ch" in Bach. Close enough, though.
Also, accordion is pretty common in some genres of southern Brazilian music, as well, like the milonga.
I’d just be happy that he included Forró, not many people outside of south america even know that south america has a bunch of rich accordion cultures (besides Argentine Tango). I’m also surprised that he included Cumbia, although he spelled ColOmbia wrong, haha...
Me being a accordionist myself and playing the type of accordion like ian, I was already so thrilled in your other video, how they all reacted, especially Adam (also perfect for me, since I also play electric and upright bass) :)
Thanks so much for releasing this video now!! I'm always happy, when more and more people learn about the variety of possibilites with this instrument, since (here in Germany) it's usually only associated (and unfortunately quite often negatively) with german folk music. Your video shows really good, how one can use it, thank you! :)
This is fascinating, thank you David!
Thank you David for the video. It was very interesting to watch!
I'm so glad you made this video after your collaboration video. I really felt like the accordion is underappreciated after watching both videos. Keep up the great content as always!
I have been anti-accordian my whole life (Lawrence Welk syndrome from when I was a kid). You have changed my thinking completely about this amazing instrument.
I too grew up with Lawrence Welk, which seemed tragically unhip as a child. But later I heard Astor Piazzola and fell in love with the instrument.
My opinion of Lawrence Welk even changed when I was traveling in Switzerland and saw a music variety show on TV of regional Swiss, Austrian, and German folk music that reminded me very much of Lawrence Welk.
I then realized that Lawrence Welk was a dying ember of Germanic folk music in the United States. I’m sure the flame still burns in pockets, but as a part of our popular culture it was supplanted by modern genres such as Rock, R&B, Rap, Hip-Hop, Pop, and Electronica (although interesting to hear that polka lives on in Mexican Norteño music).
So nice to have a composer writing music for and appreciating the accordion and the many ways it can be used beyond just for ethnic music. Great video! Nice to see Ian Watson, as well. Just played a part in the Global Accordion Project Orchestra which Ian organized. We played Ian's composition, "Peace." Jane Christison - Music With A Smile : )
The first time I was introduced to the superpowers of the accordion was on a ballad by the Bee Gees back in the 70s. Voice, guitar, and accordion which was played lightly and sounded just like strings. I am always enchanted by the sounds of sparse instrumentation and the unusual colors one gets.
Looks to me that the instrument filmed at 7.12 is a bass accordion. That is, only keys on the right hand side who provide very low notes. On regular bass accordions, there is nothing in the left hand side. The bass clef on the belly suggests that it indeed is a bass accordion.
My own bass accordion has a range down to low C, that is an octave below the cello and a major third below the (regular) double bass.
True enough. It is commonly used in accordion orchestras (through an amp) to provide that bass grounding for the overall sound.
I have played accordion since I was 15, but I haven`t had access to an accordion for a while and I really miss it, so this brightened my day!
Also, FOLK METAL? WHY HAVE I NOT HEARD OF THIS BEFORE?!
A lot of really good musical discoveries in this video. Great video, thanks Bruce.
When I started learning cello in December, my mother started playing the accordion actively again. Before that she had played only on a few christmas eves. She's now playing in a small accordion orchestra with my aunt. I'm glad I inspired my mother to pick up playing again as I have always liked the sound of accordions. I was probably never so strongly against it because I knew how it can sound if played well.
I started learning my mothers favourite song now to be able to accompany her on my cello.
Thanks a lot for this video. Being a Germany-based composer and having used accordion pretty much myself (solo pieces, and as part of ensemble pieces), I thought I'd comment on it. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland this instrument has found its way into contemporary music and almost every young composer is exposed to it sooner or later. One of the reasons certainly being the possibily to blend, which is being elaborated on in the beginning of the video. Not using too many hard attacs but rather long notes/chords, the accordion practically invites other timbres to connect with it. On top of that, taking into account its perfectly smooth "dal niente" which hides the first third of a second or so of the tone, the part of the tone where the timbre differs the most between instruments, hence making it blend in even better with just about any sound. Good thing also that you brought up how the accordion sounds almost like an electronic instrument. This effect can closely be linked to the exclusive usage of the 4-foot register that comes with every concert accordion. Here is an example of my own in a piece for accordion and viola: ruclips.net/video/dQ1Hh7kOzJ0/видео.html
As for the comparison with the organ due to its obvious similarity in tone production, I would like to stress once again the accordions possibility for dal niente and al niente, something the organ really cannot do to this extension.
Check out Magnus Lindbergs "Jeux d'Anches" for a good solo piece. Several quarter tone accordions have been build, more or less independently of each other. I would recommend the Finnish accordion player and composer Veli Kujala for some interesting things in this field
I forgot where I saw it but if you pitch an accordion down an octave or two you basically get a dubstep bass sound.
I think Andrew Huang did that? Not sure though
@@funi-so8067 yes, I guess
Чтобы музыку сберечь, нужно все баяны сжечь!
- roughly translated from russian: in order to save music we have to burn all of the bayans!
It was a usual saying amongst Saint-Petersburg conservatoire's students
Pavel Shcherbakov - I thought the Russians loved the good old accordion and it’s relatives (Bayan, Garmoshka)
Damnit, David! I don't need another accordion! Stop making me want a chromatic box!
No, I definitely don't have any accordion prejudice since there is a notable number of famous accordion musicians in my record collection and I like them all. However sometimes I asked myself why are they so extremely different if I just mention Richard Galliano and Kimmo Pohjonen for example. This video gave me the answer. Thank you!
I'm consistently learning a few things with each video of yours. This blew me away as someone who has little real-life exposure to the accordion. I've heard the accordion my whole life, but I didn't understand how little I knew of its immense potential and uses. Thank you for sharing the fascination about this instrument!
My buddy just picked up a 80 button accordion. Now, I want one. Great video.
Thank you!!! Great episode. Would live more on accordions.
I love the accordion. Thank you for pointing us to such diverse uses of this instrument :)
I think it’s a great instrument! I got ahold of one a while back. I thought it wouldn’t be terrible difficult to transition from playing keyboards. After all, the one I had has a keyboard on the right hand. Nope, I could not convince my limbs to do what they were supposed to do at the time they were supposed to do them. It was like that rub your belly pat your head thing but worse. On top of that the fifths layout on the left drove me batty. I’ll stick to reed organ when I need that sound. I have much respect to those who play accordion well.
Very enjoyable & informative, thanks.
Thanks for including that clip of Adios Noninos! That version with the composer himself is my favorite recording of that piece. :D
What I love about this is that it's really in-depth, but only alludes to the accordion's folk/pop/rock/world applications.
Big applause for the subject and video! It's so fascinating to see how versatile the accordion is and many different variations of this free reed instrument there are around the world. My mother has always played the button row accordion and she also has diatonic 1-row, 2- and 2,5-row accordions in her collections. She also bought an English concertina which I've played more than her :D
YEAAHH!! Never thought I'd see a shoutout to Taraf de Haidouks from a music youtuber. Great video as always, and tons of new stuff I have to wrap my lugs around
I started learning accordion a week ago! It's such a coincidence that you posted the video now!The hardest thing for me is coordination. Right hand's easy, left hand's easy, but both of them is impossible for me! No matter how hard it is I won't give it up, because I fell in love with it! Great video, made me love accordion even more! Keep the good work! Greetings from Bulgaria!
If you want to see more accordeon, you can also look at Quebec's folk music. What we call here "rigodons" they feature mostly the accordeon and the violin. We also use a rather unique percussion we use two spoons, with their back facing each other.
Les trois autistes you talkin about the spoons, not so rare in American folk music
can be found all over
Subscribe to Ban Bass Tabs Honestly i didnt knew that it was widespread, i guess this use must have similar roots
Thank you for showing the instrument off, yes it is amazing!
Astor Piazzola's live rendition of "Adiós Nonino" in Montreal (1984) will make you cry.
As a colombian viewer i love to see How People around the world use this instrument in many different ways, because i know very well the sound of this instrument because of vallenato.
F Tunes - ... and you probably cringed at ColUmbia.
@@Izakokomarixyz ... (sigh) At least you are aware of this lingering pain Colombians have to carry every time our country is mentioned everywhere else but Latin America
Kind a brilliant introduction to how the accordion sounds! 😀
I was lucky enough to see one of Pauline Oliveros' last performances. Just her and the accordion on stage getting a huge, unique sound. It totally changed the way I thought of / heard the instrument.
Excellent, thank you.
I recently discovered this for myself, having always loved the bandoneon, that there were a lot of button accordions (called “bayan”) in eastern Europe that can achieve the a very similar quality of sound. So I went to Ukraine and bought one second hand. Flights were cheap and I took it back as hand luggage. BEST DECISION EVER.
Ah finished the video and he mentioned the bayan specifically. I do hope this sparks some interest in the instrument, I’ve been obsessed with the Bayan for months now, such an amazing and versatile instrument. (Unfortunately mine has been staying with a friend for the last month, but when I get it back I know I’ll be spending a lot of my time playing it)
I picked up the accordion when i moved out of my parents home. I couldn’t take my father’s piano with me and half the accordion seemed to be a piano, so i figured i’ld be halfway done right there. A lot of praxtice and discovering later i grew to love it a lot, even though it never became my main instrument. Thanks for reminding me on how great it really is!
Great video. Such an underrated instrument.
Thank you for the Inspiration Mr Bruce!
You went through with the promise last time! Hurrah! Been playing a converter (hybrid, you called it) chromatic accordion for 11 years now. Thank you for this video, you brought up almost all the points I would have - loved seeing Ian play with free bass (the not-stradella kind) in the 5 composers video.
One thing I'd really stress is the idea that this instrument is an extension of your body - as the bellows rest on your upper body, every minute movement affects the sound. That is why good posture and stability is needed for long, beautiful sustained notes. This is also why you really see good accordionists sway and move with the music - every movement affects the articulation and dynamics! You can also use your arms, legs, hands etc. for different kinds of vibrato and tremolo.
Perhaps the biggest advantage of the chromatic / bayan layout is transposing! As the keyboard is built on minor 3rds it is similar to a guitar in the sense that if you know the fingering to play a song in one key, you know how to play it in all keys, given that you have the space for it! This is why it doubles notes to have 5 vertical rows instead of just 3 (the outer and inner row are duplicates) - so that you have more possibilities for fingerings. Every major chord is the same shape, every minor chord, all of them. To play effectively you only have to learn 3 major and 3 minor scales - then you know them all. It's quite a party trick to be able to modulate a song without ever practicing it in different keys - the stradella bass layout also allows for this as you showed.
Little things too, like pitch bending, using the wind of the bellows as an effect or even hitting it as a percussion sound... All these techniques, many of which I am not even close to mastering, are what have kept me playing the instrument ever since I was 6 years old. The accordion is something I want to bring out more and more as an instrument to be reckoned with! Cheers.
I just found the band 'The Tango Saloon' this weekend and now I NEED to write for the accordion.
I really love the soundtrack for a movie called 'waking life' which features a string ensemble with accordion and piano, it's just such a great set up :)
Charlotte Marceau Tosca Tango Ensemble!
Accordionists play both sides against the middle.
Also, Western Swing, muh favorite.
Great video !
accordions are such beautiful instruments and i'm glad this video exists to reinforce that!!
My father, who was a professional accordionist (piano style), called the Parisian style tuning "wet tuning". I am fascinated to know this is for outdoors use. He and I and my next brother played what we thought of as "dry tuning" or "concert tuning". A less "squeaky" sound is how I thought of the latter tuning. Excellent video. Look up Art Van Damme for a great jazz accordionist on RUclips (he is deceased now).
Thank you David. This is wonderful video and it is breaking many stereotypes about accordion. It is very hard to show people that accordion is not just folk music. Maybe you should also mention one more interesting accordion effect: "Bending" tone (you can lower your tone for a half step with less button pressing and more bellow pulling). One of the wonderful classical accordion concertos is also Vaclav Trojan's Fairy tales for accordion and orchestra. Thanks again for great video.
Accordion has always been one of my favorite instruments!
Very cool, David! You're always bringing a touch of folk and I love it! Here in Brazil it's called sanfona on the NE region and gaita on the S. BTW: Gaita is, not surprisingly, the same word we use for the harmonica (:
Thank you, David!
The accordion is like having a horn section, string section, and organ in one. Fantastic instrument. Pauline Oliveros Deep listening is incredible.
I really love the accordion and you give it the credit it deserves
This video is honestly more informed than the accordion wiki article, especially it's modern state.
What I like most about your channel is that you bring pieces like Oort Cloud or Pauline Oliveros', things that pay so much attention to detail, I keep coming back to that episode about Winter music, things that I would never know otherwise. That's why I suggested once to take a look at Gil Evans arrangements with Miles Davis, specially 'The Maids of Cadiz' and the 'Concierto de Aranjuez', there are so many little things and combinations. Those kinds of things make me forget everything else.
For those who like the mysterious sound of the accordion, I recommend the album Five Tango Sensations by Astor Piazzolla ft. Kronos Quartet and the album 'Solo' by Richard Galliano.
Another instrument that I like its sound a lot, actually it is my favorite instrument, is the japanese shō (笙)
I first paid attention to the accordion when I saw this video on youtube 'Stefan Hussong plays: John Cage "Dream"'
Well done!
Im an academic accordionist an u make me happy.
Me too.
1:49 I have not laughed that hard for a long time. 😂👍
Brazilian here:
Accordion here is used in my other styles of music. Sertanejo (our country music), Forró (the one you mention, also fun fact, it is an evolution of the words 'for all', music for parties for everyone), and many other folk music, mostly based on German and other European cultures depending on the region.
My grandfather was a master Accordion player (leaning on the root sertanejo side, very rural), he was also great at the Viola (not to be confused with the violin-like one, it's kind of a 10 string acoustic guitar, the "viola caipira")
Amazing video!!
Another great example of the beautiful versatility of this instrument is Toninho Ferragutti's album "O sorriso da manu".
It's more on the folky side, but a great musical experience.
As an accordion player I didn't want to get into the "wedding and party" genre, so I gave it up (after I played on TV with a big band - take five & whisper not). The two styles I preferred were Jazz and Scottisch folkmusic. In the Netherlands we had Harry Mooten, who played classical as well as Jazz (piano keys) and Johnny Meyer, who played Jazz as well (button keys). And of course Mat Mathews from Rotterdam, who played mostly in the US (remember the opening of True Love? - it inspired me to play the accordion. Only recently learned that Mat played it.) Mat played buttons, Art van Damme, my favorite player, was a jazz accordionist and played on 🎹 😁
Another cool feature w. the button style accordion is that a particular chord is the same hand position anywhere.... so a major chord is the same wherever... so transposing a song to any key is just a matter of changing starting point, and playing any major chord, is the same pattern of fingers rammed anywhere.
With regards to the Accordion and its strengths & potentials, we might make mention of Kimmo Pohjonen
Indeed. For a freshly contemporary folk sound one should also not forget Maria Kalaniemi.
Indeed! I saw this guy at Womad in ... 2013 or so? and it was one of the most mesmerising performances I've witnessed, just incredible intensity - the DVDs of the same material I've seen don't really do it justice. He used a Roland V-Accordion there, so maybe that takes him out of scope for this video. But he doesn't abandon the accordion sound at all, anyone interested this video should check him out!
Very cool video. I remember listening to Graceland, which you mentioned, and on the first track going "wait a minute, is that an accordion playing a rhythm guitar part?" It really is a versatile instrument, and capable of so much more than people usually give it credit for.
I would absolutely be in favor of a series of videos on "goofy" instruments and why they're actually cool. Perhaps the bagpipes would be a good choice, given all the variants of the instrument across the world, and how sweet and gentle many of them are, in contrast to the more famous highland pipes.
4:47 judging by the dimensions and the pitch, that's not a "standard" accordion but a bass accordion
Sting used an accordionist on his 57th and 9th tour ;) It's a fantastic instrument.
Percy Cardona - Yep and Percy Cardona is a fantastic diatonic button accordion player, I’m sure he has changed many peoples minds by showing them how great the accordion can sound!
Dead Can Dance make amazing, haunting use of the accordion, especially in their early work, where I had no idea what I was hearing.
It's used for a kind of drone effect, and these ghostly, windy effects, and in many other ways that are truly delightful.
Accordion is indeed great, and also deserving serious attention is the concertina, particularly the English and various duet configurations (a "duet concertina" is one that is designed to be polyphonic, and some of the types are the Crane, MacCann, and Hayden).
Taraf de Haidouks is absolutely brilliant. Please do a video on their style of music. In particular how they hold on so relentlessly long before finally giving some release. To me it has many of the same qualities as minimalist techno.
Thank you! On behalf of all accordionists out there.
Totally I agree that the accordion is beautiful in both its sound and versatility. I fell in love listening to Latin music, Ranchero, and various Central European Folk traditions. But when it comes to composing or adapting pieces there is the classic rub. One usually needs to know how it is performed. Being familiar with piano, winds, strings, and voices, I feel somewhat sure when writing parts for those. And though I love harps and organs, I don't really know how they work all that much, so I avoid them. (Even though my house has an actual pipe organ built into it, my landlord is loath to show me how it works.)
For instance, I have arranged an adaptation of Bernardo Pasquini's “Partite sopra la Aria della Folia da Espagna” (originally arranged for organ), to which I added harpsichord and voice parts. I turned it into a solo aria basically. It has a four hand accompaniment. I am most confident this piece would sound great with just an accordion and a singer. If only I knew how the accordion worked.
Thanks, I love them
Accordeon is my dream instrument, such potential!
missing a word between incredibly and instrument in the description
love your vids david
Maria Schneider's great Jazz Orchestra often includes an accordion expertly played by a guy named Gary Versace. It adds a great sound that blends perfectly with the otherwise "normal" big band lineup of 5 woodwinds (saxes, flutes, clarinets etc) , 4 trombones, 4 trumpets (and/or fluegelhorns), piano, guitar, bass & drums. Check out the album "The Thompson Fields".
Folk metal and Finland mentioned, yay! Also, I love accordion, wish I had more use for it in my music!
As an accordionist, this is a great video that I'll send to anyone who trashtalks my instrument in the future! :D
Thanks for this - I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Bela Fleck's banjo concerto
Excellent video!
Was hoping to see some Turisas.
Last year another Finnish folk metal band called Ensiferrum released an album where Netta Skog played digital accordion rather than using keys
The diminished array of the button accordion has also another consequence:
You have the same fingering for all scales in different keys
(e.g., all major scales are the same and all harmonic minor scales have the same fingering).
That means also that transposing a piece in another key is very easy.
Thanks for the great video David. I love it.
Occasionally I met people how doesn't like accordion (you mentioned the reason already in your video),
so now it is much easier to convience people that accordion is for much more capable then they might think:
I will show them the video :-).
Yep, thats true. Its so darn easy to change key on a melody on an acordion. YOu play it exactly the same. :-) There was people who said the same to me. They hated Accordion. Then I played some more nice things, and they said. YOu can play that... I thought it was just this ompah ompah... lol
I installed button accordion app on my phone, its compact layout make it convenient to play chords and melodies on a small screen, and it is very easy to remember chord shapes
I was just thinking about selling my Roland FR-2b button accoridion because I haven't played it in two years. I bought it to learn how to play a Russian Bayan (B-system, in my case), but I didn't progress far before I bailed out. Now I'm thinking that maybe I'll give it another shot, trying to write music for it along the way. Thanks for your excellent videos!
Oh my God. Thank you very much for making me remember of BAYAN which I used to play quite well back in the days. Feeling a strong urge to go back to the instrument now. Can't but subscribe to the channel.
Just one remark though:
10:10 not all the tricks, believe me, he has much more
13:49 the bellow shaking he uses in this particular case is actually called "ricochet" as top and bottom parts of the bellow bounce when you contract them in terns.
I personally enjoy playing Bach most. It's not only enjoyable to listen but to play as well. Don'e know any other instrument that fits better here.
Accordions are REALLY underestimated.
Thank you for sharing this, David. I wouldn't say that as a composer, I've had a prejudice against the accordion, just a complete, total and UTTER lack of understanding. GOod info is hard to come by. This has helped me learn more about this misunderstood instrument.
Hali Puppeh - good info is hard to come by yet we carry all the knowledge of humanity everywhere we go on our phone..
My prejudice was cured when I heard Emile Parisien and Vincent Peirani.
In Poland it is very popular to use accordion on wedding bands. Especially in the countryside where wedding parties are somewhat more traditional.
After watching I definitely expanded my awareness of what this interesting instrument actually is! Thanks!
14:07 "It sounds a bit like strings a bit like wind it can really form a great part of an ensemble..." So it's basically what the saxophone was supposed to be? :)