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
- 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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