I have a Hohner 72 bass and play by ear, self taught. When I was 20 years of age, I bought this piano accordian, could not play, but learnt by looking in the mirror to see the keys. I am now nearly 76 and I love accordians. Thank you for this opportunity to express myself.
5:21 Austrian accordion music absorbed into northern Italy, and Italians brought it to France. This is a common and wonderful theme in accordion history: this country gets it from that country and shares it with yet another! Germans received accordion music from elsewhere, then German immigrants brought diatonic accordions and polka music to south Texas / northern Mexico [also other German immigrants brought accordion to other, northern, USA places such as Minnesota and Wisconsin], and then THAT music takes on a life of its own! It's like accordion wildfire or an accordion virus but in a good way!
I don't care! Accordion music played by skilled musicians is superb. Button,piano or whatever,is one of the mos expressive and beautiful sounds you will hear.
This is a fantastic film about the history of musette in Paris, but why did you put the subtitle as 'the piano accordion in Paris'? That is not at all what this film is about.
Good point. The musette style was created in Paris with chromatic accordions. Rarely do you find piano accordionist like Louis Ferrari that contributed somewhat to the musette style with his song "Domino" The French chromatic accordion have also a typical sound because all the reed plates are secured with nails and screws instead of bees wax. Richer sound with more harmonics. Wax dulls the accordion sound.
@@accordionguide "Wax dulls the accordion sound" Yes, and another way of saying it is that nails and screws more solidly secure the reed plates to the reed blocks, thus allowing more vibrations to transfer from the reeds through the plates to the blocks. I don't understand why screws and nails aren't used on piano accordions! Do you have any idea why not?
@@adamcolbertmusic You are wrong when you write: "thus allowing more vibrations to transfer from the reeds through the plates to the blocks" There is no vibration transfer whatsoever from the reed plates to the sound blocks. There is no such thing as mechanical transmission of any sound in the accordion. The accordion source system is a FORMANT. Unlike the piano string that the vibrations is amplified by the soundboard, the reed as no mechanical energy to transmit. Even if there was, the sound block itself is not contributing to any amplification let alone the accordion's "soundboard" which is misleading as name because the accordion's soundboard does not contribute to sound either. Here is a demonstration of this: ruclips.net/video/Fc5PBwihEic/видео.html
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I have a Hohner 72 bass and play by ear, self taught. When I was 20 years of age, I bought this piano accordian, could not play, but learnt by looking in the mirror to see the keys. I am now nearly 76 and I love accordians.
Thank you for this opportunity to express myself.
5:21 Austrian accordion music absorbed into northern Italy, and Italians brought it to France. This is a common and wonderful theme in accordion history: this country gets it from that country and shares it with yet another! Germans received accordion music from elsewhere, then German immigrants brought diatonic accordions and polka music to south Texas / northern Mexico [also other German immigrants brought accordion to other, northern, USA places such as Minnesota and Wisconsin], and then THAT music takes on a life of its own! It's like accordion wildfire or an accordion virus but in a good way!
There's not that much difference between oompah and musette, in the Polkas and other dance forms. Just instrumentation.
Polka music🎶intensifies💞
I don't care! Accordion music played by skilled musicians is superb. Button,piano or whatever,is one of the mos expressive and beautiful sounds you will hear.
What a wonderful informative documentary about accordion history . Thank you for sharing ❤
Viva l’accordeon & the musete music
14:00 Hypnotic!!
Marvellous early footage!
This is a fantastic film about the history of musette in Paris, but why did you put the subtitle as 'the piano accordion in Paris'? That is not at all what this film is about.
Good point. The musette style was created in Paris with chromatic accordions. Rarely do you find piano accordionist like Louis Ferrari that contributed somewhat to the musette style with his song "Domino" The French chromatic accordion have also a typical sound because all the reed plates are secured with nails and screws instead of bees wax. Richer sound with more harmonics. Wax dulls the accordion sound.
@@accordionguide "Wax dulls the accordion sound" Yes, and another way of saying it is that nails and screws more solidly secure the reed plates to the reed blocks, thus allowing more vibrations to transfer from the reeds through the plates to the blocks.
I don't understand why screws and nails aren't used on piano accordions! Do you have any idea why not?
@@adamcolbertmusic You are wrong when you write: "thus allowing more vibrations to transfer from the reeds through the plates to the blocks" There is no vibration transfer whatsoever from the reed plates to the sound blocks. There is no such thing as mechanical transmission of any sound in the accordion. The accordion source system is a FORMANT. Unlike the piano string that the vibrations is amplified by the soundboard, the reed as no mechanical energy to transmit. Even if there was, the sound block itself is not contributing to any amplification let alone the accordion's "soundboard" which is misleading as name because the accordion's soundboard does not contribute to sound either. Here is a demonstration of this: ruclips.net/video/Fc5PBwihEic/видео.html
@@accordionguide Oh, thanks for the info and explanation!
...must adjust🎶frequency💞
La vie est belle sans la guerre cré par des fous!!!!!
This is the real of sorrows, don't allow the 'madmen' to keep yer frequency down🤔💞
Interesting history.
Where is PIANO accordion...?