How to Operate Accordion Bellows | Accordion Lessons
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2013
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Learn how to operate the accordion bellows from musician / Broadway actress Katrina Yaukey in this Howcast video.
Let's talk about the bellows on the accordion. The most important part of the accordion in my opinion.
This is what breathes life into the entire instrument. I'm using the air valve over here to open and close right now as I show you the bellows.
Now, what's really cool is that as you push and pull the instrument depending on how much you push or pull you change the volume and the emotion of the sound coming from the instrument.
So, for example. A very small bellow pull versus one with much more vigor. And what's lovely is you can change that as you're playing depending on how much you push or pull the instrument.
Another really fun thing to do is called a bellows shake. Sometimes this is used to add a rhythmical pulse underneath playing. And again that's called a bellows shake.
The most expressive part of the instrument all right here depending on how you push or pull. 
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I've watched your tutoring and I'm practicing an accordion partition for a song. I'll share it here when I finish it. All thanks to you ;)
I like your style!
Good job.
Ah, hear that wonderful beastie breathe!
This might sound weird, but can i use the part with the close-up on the bellows for an expressionistic video project? I'll credit you.
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I'm a newly retired instrument collector, thinning out my collection, and what did I find in a lot of instruments I'd purchased several years ago but a very old Hohner accordion. "What the- ?" sez I, as accordions are not something I had any intention of collecting. But- there it is. So, what to do, what to do? I took it to my long-time repair guy and asked him if it was fixable. "It's a Hohner," he replied disdainfully. After fiddling with it for a bit, we dickered a bit, and I agreed to trade repairs for some old instruments, as I was getting rid of them anyway. So now I have the accordion back in full working order, and I am going to take a crack at learning how to play it. My repair guy told me to start with learning how to work the bellows, which brought me here. Now, the problem I've just run into is that I don't like the modern accordion music. My dad played piano from accordion books back in the 1950's, and those are the tunes I'm familiar with and want to play. Turns out it sucks to be from the 50's because everything from that generation has vanished without a trace. Accordion bands are no longer a thing, 50's music is as scarce as hens' teeth, no one living today has heard of the Hi Lo's, The Harmonicats, or anything else that is not Doris Day or Elvis Presley. And so the hunt for repertoire begins . . .
(Blackbird Raum) will blow your mind.
Hmmmmmmm........................................ I guess you are right about that "most expressive" thing. And, good job!
uhh, wasnt that helpful...