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Post by librarylady on Jul 23, 2022 19:19:17 GMT
Poll added...multiple response allowed.
Saw a cartoon belittling accordion players...
I think a person has to be quite skilled to play one.
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Post by Gem Girl on Jul 23, 2022 19:24:36 GMT
It's an interesting instrument, but I don't like the sound of it.
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Post by myshelly on Jul 23, 2022 19:25:38 GMT
I’ve just never heard anyone play one that I liked the sound. I’m sure it takes skill, but if the instrument itself is annoying, I don’t want to hear it.
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Post by pantsonfire on Jul 23, 2022 19:25:44 GMT
Never had an interest in playing on and yes I agree I do not like its sound.
I can however play the piano, clarinet, trumpet, sax, flute.
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 23, 2022 19:27:06 GMT
My elementary music teacher played the accordion frequently. I don't mind them, but I haven't heard one live in years...
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Post by busy on Jul 23, 2022 19:30:28 GMT
My mom played the accordion in marching band as a teen. I’m grateful she no longer had one by the time I was around.
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Post by Ryann on Jul 23, 2022 19:37:59 GMT
I don't like music played on the accordion so I would never want to learn to play. This is a hard no for me.
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Post by lesley on Jul 23, 2022 19:47:42 GMT
The accordion is very popular in Scottish ceilidh bands, so whenever I hear one, I just want to get up and dance! 😄
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Post by anniebeth24 on Jul 23, 2022 19:48:46 GMT
DH's grandpa played one. He was a precious, joyful man, so I relate all things accordion with him and it makes me smile.
He was self taught and enjoyed going to polka festivals. At our wedding, he played "Let me call you sweetheart", "Roll out the barrel" and of course, the "Chicken Dance." Since he passed, we always play a polka at family weddings in his honor.
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Post by bc2ca on Jul 23, 2022 19:58:38 GMT
The accordion is very popular in Scottish ceilidh bands, so whenever I hear one, I just want to get up and dance! 😄 I love them in this situation, but tend to associate them with Polish/polka dance music. DH learned to play the accordion as a preteen. I'm sure it was either his mom's choice and/or because someone in the Greek community was offering lessons and there was pressure to send a child or two. DH dropped it as soon as he could.  One of DD's friends is extremely musically talented and plays multiple instruments. I occasionally see her post something on SM but she is the only accordion player I know IRL. |
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Post by Why on Jul 23, 2022 20:16:06 GMT
Lawrence Welk!!!!
Does anyone even know who that was?
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Post by leannec on Jul 23, 2022 20:23:42 GMT
I have never played a single musical instrument ... including the accordion but two of my cousin's were forced to learn ... no idea why  They also learned to sort of play the organ  Neither play anything now ... |
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Post by librarylady on Jul 23, 2022 22:28:09 GMT
Lawrence Welk!!!! Does anyone even know who that was? I do. |
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Post by librarylady on Jul 23, 2022 22:30:18 GMT
The community next to the one where I grew up was almost entirely Czech so there was lots of polka music there and some accordion players.
Their community hall had a dance every Saturday night and sometimes we went to the dances.
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Post by Linda on Jul 23, 2022 23:04:09 GMT
Lawrence Welk!!!! Does anyone even know who that was? I do. me too |
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Jul 23, 2022 23:08:49 GMT
My dad had one when I was growing up and I learned a couple notes but wouldn’t say I could play. We had a few available in music class so if you weren’t quick enough that’s what you were stuck with during class. They’re heavy!
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Post by ellen on Jul 23, 2022 23:23:24 GMT
We inherited a nice one. None of us can play it. We hired an accordion player to sing at my daughter's graduation party. He was 18 years old at the time and going to school to study opera. He was fantastic.
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Post by ellen on Jul 23, 2022 23:29:12 GMT
I should also mention that I have attended a polka church service. All of the music was played on an accordion. Songs like Roll Out the Barrel were played with lyrics changed. My daughter was probably about first grade age and I remember her saying, "Church was really fun today." I loved it too. A lot of churches in our area will have one polka service a year. I live in an area where quite a few people know how to play them. We went to a local bar & grill not too long ago and a guy brought his accordion and played while he sat at the bar. He wasn't hired to do this and it was welcomed.
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Post by gillyp on Jul 23, 2022 23:35:46 GMT
The accordion is very popular in Scottish ceilidh bands, so whenever I hear one, I just want to get up and dance! 😄 I agree with this, it’s very popular here and whenever I hear one I just want to get up and leave the room. Sorry lesley! |
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Post by lesley on Jul 23, 2022 23:41:00 GMT
The accordion is very popular in Scottish ceilidh bands, so whenever I hear one, I just want to get up and dance! 😄 I agree with this, it’s very popular here and whenever I hear one I just want to get up and leave the room. Sorry lesley ! You’re such a… such a… Sassenach! 🤣 |
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Post by Restless Spirit on Jul 23, 2022 23:46:59 GMT
My late mother owned one. She played the accordion and the piano. Before she was married, she and a friend would go to Chicago for paying gigs at parties, Bar Mitzvahs and occasionally, bars. She still had her accordion while I was growing up. I have no idea what happened to it. I do have the spinet piano that my dad bought her later in life even though I no longer play myself. I just can’t seem to give it up.
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2022 0:17:55 GMT
I agree that they require skill to play, but it's not a skill I'm interested in acquiring.
That said, I grew up listening to Lawrence Welk at my grandparents' house, and if pressed, I can manage a decent polka.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 24, 2022 0:24:57 GMT
One of my favourite bands since the late 80s is an Australian folk rock band called Weddings Parties Anything. One of the band members, who is known as Squeezebox Wally,  plays the accordion. So I have a fondness for the instrument. None of my friends back then liked the band, mainly because they couldn't get past the idea of an accordion in a rock band! So I never got to see them live until they did a reunion tour in 2010 and DSO and I went. librarylady I think that disparaging cartoon you mentioned has been shared on the band's Facebook page a few times! Away AwayThe band has also given me a great love of the violin. Woman of Ireland |
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Post by brynn on Jul 24, 2022 5:26:39 GMT
Lawrence Welk!!!! Does anyone even know who that was? Of course, I know who Lawrence Welk was!! My uncle played the accordion for house parties and wedding dances (and he had groupies, lol). At my parents' wedding dance, my uncle played a waltz that is played in the Gundbrandsdalen region (where both my grandfathers emigrated from) in honor of my mother. |
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Post by brynn on Jul 24, 2022 5:51:34 GMT
I was started out on an accordion, then a piano, then an organ, and than a guitar. The accordion, organ and guitar are still in my house.
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Post by scrapsotime on Jul 24, 2022 5:58:40 GMT
I know two people that can play the accordion. One is my cousin that can play more instruments than I can name. The other has played for the Queen of England.
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Post by hennybutton on Jul 24, 2022 6:14:04 GMT
Lawrence Welk!!!! Does anyone even know who that was? My son has always been into music. My stepdad used to tell him that his father had played accordion with Lawrence Welk and that my son could have his accordion someday. When my stepdad passed away, my sister-in-law found the accordion while visiting Mom and reminded her that Dad wanted my son to have it, so she gave it to my son. Over the course of the next few weeks and months, we found 3 more accordions. All found their way to my son. Later on, when we were helping my mom get ready to replace her flooring, we found printouts from eBay for each accordion. None of them was a family heirloom (none looked that old anyway), my stepdad had just developed an obsession with accordions. He never learned how to play one. The accordions are in their cases which are now stacked in my living room as an end table. |
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Post by garcia5050 on Jul 24, 2022 6:17:34 GMT
My brother’s first instrument/lesson was the accordion. Then the piano, and ultimately played trumpet in elementary and middle school. For some reason, us girls didn’t get to learn as many. I only played the clarinet and my sis never learned an instrument.
Larger mariachi bands have an accordion, so my dad likes the sound and made my brother learn it.
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Post by smasonnc on Jul 24, 2022 6:45:39 GMT
Night before last I heard a jazz trio with a special guest accordion player. He was fabulous! I’d never heard it played like that. Yes, jazz accordion.
I love world music and accordion is part of so much of it, Celtic, French, Cajun, Italian, Eastern European.
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Post by gillyp on Jul 24, 2022 7:04:13 GMT
I agree with this, it’s very popular here and whenever I hear one I just want to get up and leave the room. Sorry lesley ! You’re such a… such a… Sassenach! 🤣 ROFL! Do I redeem myself if I say I love a pipe band? |
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plays the accordion. So I have a fondness for the instrument. None of my friends back then liked the band, mainly because they couldn't get past the idea of an accordion in a rock band! So I never got to see them live until they did a reunion tour in 2010 and DSO and I went. 
