also played the accordion and people said well at least thank you know God being a nudist he didn't play the symbols but I pointed out that that the accordion would do exactly the same job although rather rather more slowly he he also was and I just mentioned it for therecord a keen chain smoker and he would smoke well he never would smoke his one
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! The accordion is kind of similar to the violin in the fact that, I think a lot of-- speaking of Romanian, in the Balkans
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And I guess hello to all of live streamers and future people on YouTube. So does anybody play accordion in here? I know Debbie was saying there are some-- yeah, OK, wow.
I'm from Rhode Island, that little tiny state of course. Started playing accordion because my dad played back when it was popular. And I'll go over the history of the accordion and where we're at now.
But let me just play you a couple of things, maybe starting with something you might expect on accordion and then go through to stuff you would not expect on the accordion , because this is an electric accordion . And I'll explain the differences between acoustic and electric.
And that was in the vaudeville era and he became a huge star in that. And by 1920 accordion was a fairly popular instrument. And it stayed that way until about 1930.
And it stayed that way until about 1930. And the accordion began to die off as it had its kind of a little bit of a rain. And kind of just stayed in the, it wasn't unpopular it just wasn't really a thing to do, probably until 1948 when Dick Contino went on the Horace Heidt
show, which in those days was kind of like American Idol on the radio. And he made the accordion massively popular at that time. And that stayed through the '50s, until 1962 when the Beatles landed, and then that was a quick, a very quick end
And that stayed through the '50s, until 1962 when the Beatles landed, and then that was a quick, a very quick end to the accordion . People tell me if you wanted to be cool in 1960 or so, you played the accordion . And by 1965 you couldn't get a date if you played accordion .
And it died to the point where it's almost a good thing because the younger generation doesn't know what the accordion is today, because their parents are the ones that really didn't want to talk about it, especially their parents' generation. So no one mentioned accordion .
know what the accordion is today, because their parents are the ones that really didn't want to talk about it, especially their parents' generation. So no one mentioned accordion . So to young people it's like, what is this thing?
So the bellows, how do they work? Basically an accordion , not this because it's electric, but an acoustic accordion basically works as a harmonica. In fact in Italian, the accordion 's called the fisarmonica.
All right, where are the markers over here? Since we have some accordion players how many people have somewhat of a grasp of music theory? That's a fair amount.
C, C, it doesn't matter. On a diatonic accordion , there's buttons here. And when I play this button out, when I come in it's a different note.
And when I play this button out, when I come in it's a different note. That's a diatonic accordion . That is what you will see Mexicans play, or Irish play.
It's funny, Scotland plays piano accordion . Irish mostly plays diatonic accordion . Amazing how that works.
Amazing how that works. Brazil plays this accordion . Argentina plays the bandoneon, which is more like this with the bellow.
Once you hit a note on the guitar or piano, you're kind of done on the volume. But on accordion , you can manipulate the sound constantly. It's also portable, which is nice.
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! I want to play accordion !
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! So what does an accordion world championship consist of?
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! You are pushing the accordion as a solo instrument.
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! Usually in the accordion world it's pretty separated, like it is I think in the violin world.
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! Tapping on the accordion , different things like this.
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! there's always an accordion player, and they play diatonic which is the one where you hit one note this way, it's one sound,
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! It took the accordion world to figure out, the piano!
And it kind of became like a Like oh, there's this girl. And she plays accordion . And she sings. And that way, I started playing with a few musician friends.
And I think that's what sets many Latin American cultures apart. You bring out the accordion .
what I've done at work to what I've got at home. I played accordion when I was younger.
We have Arturo Sandoval, who's obviously many decades ago now moved up from Cuba, Richard Galliano, incredible virtuoso French accordion player. As a Chicagoan, I can always hear the accordion all the Chicago cats because of the Polish connection.
And so he knew he had a lot of assurance that when they fired a shell, it would strike and blow up. was a great accordion player.
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that he ever performed these dances nude but he was a he was a very keen dancer once again for the rest of his life he also played the accordion and people said well at least thank you know God being a nudist he didn't play the symbols but I pointed out that that the accordion would do exactly the same job although rather rather more slowly he he also was and I just mentioned it for the
And I've been bringing all these friends I know from Europe that, they haven't been to the United States before, that want to come play the United States and show different accordions and different styles and everything. So Ljubinka's coming in to play at Cotati.
All right, eleven, look at that. We're getting three accordionists in here and people . This is an awesome audience.
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! with other accordions or other instruments?
If you watch it, I'm going like-- I'm fully turning away because-- yeah, he's-- every time he would yell, he would say something different. You just whipped out your accordion and just fucked this moment! So does he do a lot of improv, or do you do improv with him, or how-- Yeah, he improvises a little bit.
If you watch, I'm going like-- I'm fully turning away because, yeah, he's-- every time he would yell, he would say something different. You just-- you just whipped out your accordion and just fucked this moment. And I started laughing because if you saw last episode that followed it, that leads them-- I started laughing, and he's like why are you laughing?
He's sort of a habitual pioneer as an American accordionists, the first graduate from The New England Conservatory of music in accordion , a four time world championship winner and hopefully world record holder in marathon accordion playing. He just came back from Austria after having played for over 32 hours to break the Guinness World record.
He's got a whole host of other activities, including developing his own electric accordion , compiling hurricane weather records, and collaborating with the Red Bull Formula One team. He will discuss the history of the accordion in America and what he's doing to reinvent the instruments. There's some really interesting technology involved.
All is good. Pretty much anything is possible, really, on the accordion . So where to start with the accordion ? There's kind of still debate and I don't know.
And it's kind of interesting how every single country plays a different accordion , and I'll draw different ones that we do. So the guy that made the accordion popular in the United States was a person named Guido Deiro. And he came to the United States in 1908, brought the first piano accordion .
So that's where we are. But every country's history of the accordion is completely different. Brazil, right now, you play accordion , that's a very cool thing to do.
You know-- not quite. So a little lesson in accordion . So now, to show a different accordion , let's bring Ljubinka up.
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! But now Ljubinka playing acoustic accordion , those are all real reeds you were hearing, where this is all computerated sound.
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! to have all random questions on accordion and everything else.
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! Has that been the case for accordion ?
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! And especially with going to like electric accordion , are there any parameters or things you wish you could control more finely that you
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! I've designed this other accordion that I'm kind of building with a different MIT engineer, is the look of it.
sometimes of the same object, like the accordion here. They show a blurred image of an accordion . They ask people what, do they think that is, and so on, try to make them curious about that.