Comments on: I bought an accordion!

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 31 May 2006 20:16:24 +0000

It’s the mouth that creeps me out most, I think.

By: eyeteeth

eyeteeth — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:46:12 +0000

I have always thought of mendel as a blithe little redheaded girl traipsing through a field of flowers.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 31 May 2006 18:42:19 +0000

By: pisceandreamer

pisceandreamer — Wed, 31 May 2006 18:39:13 +0000

The box *is* a tad weird looking…

By: nyxie

nyxie — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:39:21 +0000

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:20:12 +0000

It is that! It’s apparently also a great way to learn to conserve air — when you move from one of these to a real box it’s said to be quite a surprise at how much air you get. The only big difference between this and a regular melodeon is that the first note is C, not A (it’s in the key of C). But that just means that a melodeon or the first row of a button box would have an extra key at the low end as well as a couple at the high end.

These little ones are available on ebay — you can usually find them searching for toy accordion. There are also piano accordion ones (still just diatonic, I think, but they’ve got square keys and they’re double-action, although there’s also a bigger chromatic piano accordion with seven basses), but that’s no fun compared to a button box. :-)

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:57:15 +0000

By: nyxie

nyxie — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:49:46 +0000

By: happinesstogo

happinesstogo — Wed, 31 May 2006 08:01:15 +0000

That’s great! I’ve wanted an accordion for a long time so maybe something like this would be a good way to ease into it, rather than dropping several hundred dollars for a used one at the music store…

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 31 May 2006 06:56:11 +0000

No! She loves this kind of thing. Right, Candice? ... right?