Resources:
Where
(and how) to buy an accordion (in
and around Vancouver)
Repairs (in and around Vancouver)
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Info
about playing and maintaining accordions
- 12
lessons for 12-bass accordions
- Accordion Basics - a series of
YouTube clips
- Accordion
Bass Notation - a scan of a page from the
American Accordionists' Association about how bass notation should be written
- Accordion Cafe
is a growing online resource with lessons, sheet music, how to
improvise info and more. Free registration required.
- Free Accordion Font
(TrueType format for Windows, Mac, etc) with symbols for accordion
register switches
- Free online accordion lessons
- Accordion
Playing for Beginners - 6 part video lesson
series, including how to read accordion sheet music
- Accordion
Radio - UK online radio station: accordion music
24 hours a day
- Accordion
Repairs Made Easy - 80 page printed guide
published in 1956, $24.95
- Accordion
Revival - very informative website about buying
and maintaining accordions. The author published a book - PIANO
ACCORDION OWNER'S MANUAL AND BUYER'S GUIDE - ($25) which can be ordered
online
- Print your own Accordion
Revolution stickers onto label paper!
- Accordeon
accordion simulator with versions for iPhone,
Ipad, or iPod Touch - search iTunes App Store for other
accordion-learning apps for piano accordion, chromatic button
accordion, and button box - such as the Piano
Accordion Pro for iPad - watch this YouTube clip to see it in
action!
- Accordion Trainer: learn the
left-hand buttons with this (Windows-only) computer game
- Accordion
WikiBook - an introduction to the piano
accordion: history, how it works, and an instructional guide to
beginning to intermediate-level playing
- Accordionwise
- nice sets of tips and tricks to bring your playing up a notch.
- Accordions4U
- the PhD's of the button accordion. Lots of tune-books, lesson-books,
etc (for sale)
- Be a Bass
Button Wizard
- Bass
range chart: see the bass buttons for standard
(Stradella system) accordions - 12, 24, 32, 48, 60, 72, 96, and 120
bass accordions. Here's the equivalent chart for the treble
keyboard side and one to decipher the symbols
on the treble registers (tone switches)
- (Chromatic) Button
Accordion vs Piano Accordion - which is right
for you?
- Big Nick's Cajun Button Box lessons
- Alan's article: Reading
jazz charts on the accordion. For more
sophisticated options, see: Hans
Palm's Chord Combining article. New! Frank Marocco's How to
Create Additional Chords on the Left Hand
- Debra
Peters (formerly from here, now in Austin) offers 3
volumes of DVD lessons: The ABCs of Piano Accordion Basics
- Eight Ways to Mike an Accordion
- Dave Evans teaches how to do the bellows shake
- How
it's made - Science Channel video clip (5
minutes). Also see: Making
stuff - Hohner Accordions
- How to adjust accordion straps to avoid
neck, back, and shoulder pain
- How to pack an accordion for shipping
- YouTube clip from Liberty Bellows
- How
To Play Accordion.net - tips from Enzo Giribaldi
- How
to Play Accordion - 20 minute starter video
lesson
- How
to play minor chords on a 12-bass accordion (!)
- a Youtube video
- How
to Play Piano Accordion in 50 free Youtube
lessons - series by Liberty Bellows' Artist in Residence Tony Kovatch
- How
to be an accordion player by Geoff Berner: Introduction online
- How to Maximize the Life of Your Accordion:
Accordion Apocalypse
- How
to Travel With an Accordion
- Information
on older accordions - tips on what to look for
if you're interested in buying an older accordion
- Inside
an accordion
- Let's
Polka blog about new accordion-learning books: http://www.letspolka.com/2009/07/learning-to-play-accordion/
- Phrasing
and the bellows - learn to think about how to
use your bellows to better fit a tune's phrasing
- Piano
Accordion Owner's Manual and Buyer's Guide
- The
Piano Accordion - 16 page introductory manual
from 1938
- A
Complete & Detailed Method for the Piano Accordion
- 1940 instruction book. Whole book (zip format); Chapter 1 - Rudiments of Music; Chapter 2 - Introduction to the
Accordion; Chapter 3 - Scales &
Arpeggios; Chapter 4 - Bass Layouts; Chapter 5 - Exercises; Chapter 6 - Songs; Chapter 7 - Chords and Harmony; Chapter 8 - Tangos
- Pretty
Complete Guide to Squeezeboxes: online book,
with chapters including 'Repairs & Maintenance', 'Care and
Feeding Your Squeezebox', and more
- Stuck
Bass Button - Simple fix at home
- Tex-Mex
song library - 500+ songs, scales, chord charts
and more in tabbed-text format - for 3-row diatonic accordion
- How to add Vibrato
to your playing - 3 minute video lesson
Links-
Vancouver and area:
Links- everywhere
else:
Accordion
manufacturers and dealers
Other Links
- Accordion
Apocalypse circle (San Francisco) mini-documentary
featuring Skylar Fell and Duckmandu
- Accordion
Association of Calgary
- Accordion backstraps
- Accordion Balancing
- an essay by
Vancouver's Jack Garton. And see his talk on the subject at the 2015
Accordion Noir Festival
- Accordion
Idol - great YouTube clip, even though it's too
late to win the free accordion
- Accordion Museum
- in Montmagny, Quebec
- Accordion Tutor - Accordion Course for
Beginners ebook + online or CD lessons (not free)
- Accordion USA
- news and
more
- AccordionLinks.com
- Accordion Videos - http://accordionvideos.info/
- Accordion Videos and Links
- http://www.linkonardo.com/en/accordion/
- Accordions
Worldwide:
Weekly accordion news from around the world about accordions and other
related bellows driven instruments.
- Accordionist.org:
The Online Accordionist Community is a great place to meet other
accordionists, accordion teachers, and repairers. Share practice
techniques and repair tips; news of concerts, recordings and
competitions; music files and sheet music for accordion.
- The New York Times reports on
the accordion-making centre of the world: Castelfidardo
- Chromatic Accordion repairs
(in Alberta): Edwin Erickson, Buck Lake, Alberta, Tel: 780-682-2368
- Edmonton Accordion Society
- Edmonton
Accordion Avenue Jam - like the Vancouver
Squeezebox Circle, but in
Edmonton! - email:
accordionavenuejam@gmail.com
- Finale
Notepad -
the entry level version of this very good (commercial) music notation
software is now free and worth getting (Windows & Mac versions)
- Forte
Notation Free - free version of this music
notation program (Windows-only)
- The
Great American Accordionist - Pro tips,
choosing and packing an accordion, musican listings and more
- Hohner
Squeezebox App - mimics the company's Corona
diatonic models - a variety of 2 row and 3 row accordions in different
keys, for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch - even virtual pulls and pushes.
- K&K
Accordion miking system-
order it locally from Bone
Rattle Music on
Commercial Drive
- KRVS- Louisiana Cajun public radio
- Let's
Polka- accordion directory website; events, listings, and more
- Museo
della Fisarmonica - Castelfigardo, Italy -
website in Italian. Great historic photos.
- MuseScore
- free music composition and notation software for
Mac, Windows & Linux. And a page on notating
accordion on MuseScore.
- Music
Prevents Delinquency - you better believe it!
From a 1959 book of accordion lessons for beginners.
- Online
Academy of Irish Music - lessons in traditional
instruments including diatonic button and piano accordion - 2 weeks
free!
- RareTunes - listen to recordings of
traditional tunes of Scotland, etc
- Squeeze This! A Cultural History
of the Accordion in America - by Marion Jacobson. Newly
published book considers the accordion's contradictory status as both
an "outsider" instrument and as a major force in popular music in the
twentieth century.
- Squeezebox
Stories - NPR audio documentary
- Virtual
Accordion Museum - images and info on many
models (mostly Hohners), often with sound samples
- WWOZ-
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage community radio
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