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Resources:
Where
(and how) to buy an accordion (in
and around Vancouver)
Info
about playing and
maintaining accordions
- Accordion Basics - a series of YouTube clips
- 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
- 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 Accordio 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
- 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
- Big Nick's Cajun Button Box lessons
- Alan's article: Working with jazz
charts on the accordion. For more sophisticated options,
see: Hans
Palm's Chord Combining article and the Stradella
Bass Combining chart (how to
combine buttons to get fancy chords).
- Debra Peters
(formerly from here, now in Austin) offers 3 volumes of DVD lessons: The ABCs of Piano Accordion Basics
- Dave
Evans
teaches how
to do the bellows shake
- How it's made
- Science Channel video clip (5 minutes)
- How To Play Accordion.net -
tips
from Enzo Giribaldi
- How to be an
accordion player by Geoff Berner: Introduction
online
- How to Maximize the Life of Your Accordion:
Accordion Apocalypse
- Inside an accordion
- Let's
Polka
blog about new accordion-learning books: http://www.letspolka.com/2009/07/learning-to-play-accordion/
- Pretty Complete Guide
to Squeezeboxes: online book, with chapters including
'Repairs & Maintenance', 'Care and Feeding Your Squeezebox', and
more
Links-
Vancouver and area:
Links-
everywhere else:
- Accordion
Apocalypse
Online Store - plus a nice
article about them and an August 2010 (front page!) piece from the San Francisco Chronicle
- Accordion Apocalypse
circle (San
Francisco) mini-documentary featuring Skylar Fell and
Duckmandu
- Accordion
Association of Calgary
- Accordions Canada - Toronto store since 1960
- AccordionLinks.com
- Accordion
Museum at Alex &
Bell Accordions, New York City
- 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.
- Borsini
Accordions - Factory Direct Sales, Service, & Tuning
- The
Button Box- Massachusetts
accordion and
concertina store
- Bay-area
accordionist Henri Ducharme
offers accordion sheet music arrangements of punk classics and more
- Gabbanelli Accordions - premium
handmade accordions, made in family-run shop in Houston, Texas, and
shipped world-wide
- Infinite Accordion
- multi-genre Internet radio station playing non-stop accordion music
- John's Accordion Service -
Windsor, Ontario
- 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
- Liberty Bellows in Philadelphia
has video demos of a variety of accordions for sale - see and hear
different types of accordions played
- Main Squeeze
shop in New York City.
- Music Prevents
Delinquency - you better believe it! From a 1959 book of
accordion lessons for beginners.
- Petosa Accordions- in nearby
Seattle, WA. Read this newspaper article about their history.
- Quebec Accordion Museum & Carrefour
Mondial de l'Accordeon
- Savoy Music
Center - for Louisiana cajun
accordions
- Smythe's
Accordion Center - Oakland California
- 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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