Button Accordion - HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
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- Can Woody learn how to play the CHROMATIC BUTTON ACCORDION and fulfill his lifetime dream to play the theme music from CAPTAIN PUGWASH? Let's find out!
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I am an accordionist and when he opened the case precariously near the water, I cringed!😵 btw, that is a C system bayan which is what I play, except for the fact that mine cost about $2500 and it was used.😁 and yes those bellows need to be either replaced or repaired, they should not move much if a button isn't pressed.
thanks for the clarification on the leaky bellows!
Omg I knowww I play the piano accordion. And when he almost dropped it lol.
The accordion jokes are killing me :D Great tutorial, Woody ;) And Eddie did a great job!
I am not sure my brain has the ability to play that complicated of an instrument. Great video and funny jokes... Thanks.
I have been enjoying your videos a lot, so thank you.
Now... I am an accordion player, been playing for 38 years and one version of button accordion. You know the nordic countries have different systems how the buttons are arranged.... Norwegian (same as Russian), Swedish and Finnish. The way how the buttons are arranged is actually quite clever, but the most important thing (in my opinion) in accordion are the bellows. You breath with it, you use it to do all the accents, differences in volume etc. It's like the modulation wheel, volume pedal and aftertouch combined in synth speak. Anyway.... I respect anybody in 2019 learning accordion, it's really not for fast technology oriented people... you need to sit on you ass for hours and practise, every day, every week, every month to get somewhere. Old fashioned.... but the instrument can do many things in good hands.
well said, thank you for your insight!
He admitted he likes accordions!!! Quickly everyone, throw your old accordions at him!!!!
Joking aside, a brilliant video and i must admit I've always wanted to give one a try.
A former Mayor of my hometown famously was quoted as saying that “he was late for the meeting because the traffic was bad, as the police had thrown an accordion across the road.”
I knew a man once who played a Hohner accordion. I tried it once...He earned my immediate respect. I think I'll stick to my synths. :-)
Q. What is the definition of perfect pitch?
A. Tossing an accordion into a dumpster without hitting the sides.
Add more accordion jokes under here...
@@WoodyPianoShack They make great bellows for an oboe fire.
(...and landing on top of the banjo)
Whoever came up with this joke wouldn't know perfect pitch if it came up and bit them.
The button accordion is way easier then the keyboard one, i mastered the keyboard one as well as the button one i can say button one is easier
Captain Pugwash! Yes Woody!
That was so much fun! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks to Eddie, we get more Woody in this video. This outdoor session is great and for videos like this or any other video production with a lot of movement go with Eddie. You can focus on your parts (including all the jokes) and don't have to worry about the A/V stuff. Yepp, go for it :)
Fun to watch! The chromatic buttons are verry logic and as soon as you cracked the code you will never want a piano accordeon. Good luck!
Great fun! My dad was brilliant with his button accordion ... :-D
My accordion is made by Roland and will play on 4 midi channels at once. One for the bass.one for the bass chords. And two for the treble.
yes, those machines are pretty amazing!
I loved the intro!
What a fun video, I really enjoyed it! Thumbs up for Eddie's camera work! btw: I had that Captain Pugwash theme song on my cellphone for quite a long time. Maybe I should use your version from now on :)
Thanks.great video.
Less Accordion and More Eddie! (Just kidding. This was a brave and fun intro to an instrument that many of us find intimidating.)
Great stuff
My first musical instrument was the accordion, the keyboard type. I learned the basics of music this way. Now I'm playing piano and keyboards many years later. I never forgot what I learned. True, it's a European folk instrument (France, Italy) and never really caught on in the US, where I live. But some professionals have used it in their shows. Check out Jethro Tull playing Living in the Past on TH-cam, also Jean Michel Jarre in one of his big outdoor Paris shows. It is a serious musical instrument and requires a lot of coordination to play properly. You aren't using the bellows properly at all, it should be opened like a fan, not straight out. The buttons on the left hand provide the bass accompaniment: single notes, major chords, minor chords, seventh chords, and diminished chords, going across, from the inner to outer edge. 120 bass buttons in all, arranged from top to bottom in the circle of fifths pattern. Other artists who played accordion or used it in their bands or recordings include Barry Manilow(he learned keyboards on it, like me) and KD Lang (in her song Constant Craving). So, you see, it's not a joke. I really like your other videos, but this was junk and totally unnecessary.
Carol120454 has - It was a popular instrument in the US until the 60’s when rock got really big and the guitar took over...
Amazing constintina
You got me at vintage analog :D. I got a reed organ at home and the pneumatics are leaking all over the place. Unfortunately repairing it is a pain, so I rather try to fix the philicorda organ that I got for free in a not working condition. That's also very vintage and analog but at least it has some circuitry!
Sounds like a news item : resurgence if vintage analogy polys
most likely a russian accordion or a баян (bayan) since the note he plays at 5:10 sounds very similar to one played in the russian folk song “Kalinka” not only that but ordering these types of accordions off say etsy a majority ship from slavic countries
some name - Nah, bayans are B system, this one is C-system
I bought a melodica recently, cool vid!
Very entertaining and yes - it's the ultimate one-man-orchestra instrument! Of course Eddie was brilliant as a camera boy :) Looking forward to watching more of these on location, unscripted videos with you and Eddie!
Very kind of you to say I will pass it on to eddie
My wife bought one of these off a charity shop, years ago. It was old and Italian. Luckily it didn't cost her too much, and it was partially inoperable. Ended up donating back to a charity. Shoot me now lol...
this is a hidden youtube gem
As you said at the end, on those days it is incredible to just take and instrument and make other people dance and enjoy without switching on amplifiers or setting up anything. I'm an amateur piano, sinth and accordeon player... no other instrument gives me that.
Now I've two "analogic" accordeons and wonder if electronic accordeon from Roland is worth. Will love if you make review.
by the sound of it, it's not just leaks, it's a missing reed letting air in
As a pianist that's what I said when I bought my Roland FR-1xb: "How hard can it be."
Answer: It's still sitting there unplayed after 4 years. I just don't know how to learn it!
Great video
Hi Woody
Awesome video and presentation of this button accordion👍😀👌😉
I can play on normal one but this accordion for me is like a quantum physics 🤣😂🤣😁
Have a great weekend
Daro😁
Hi daro:) I relish the challenge!
das ist fantastisch sehr gut
Great cameraman performance. Not so great accordion one, but it seems a really difficult instrument to master in short time, so congratulations to both of you!
Thank u so much will pass it on to cameraboy
A gentleman is a man who knows how to play the accordion.....but doesn't.
I love that line
Well.... I guess I'm not a gentleman.😂
I wonder how many "retake" this video took 😎👍👍
What makes you think that lol ok did practise the song a few times off camera :)
Fun clip, & superb camera work, Eddie. Woody, I was expecting just a static picture of you with moving lips superimposed over top. ;-)
You what?
@@WoodyPianoShack Oh, I realise now that you probably saw the mid-70s version. I saw the original black-and-white version, where moving lips were superimposed on top of cardboard characters. I can't find any examples on TH-cam to show you.
Funny video. Truth be told. I like accordions. They are used in many genres of music such as country and western, zydeco, and of course polkas and the like. I wouldn't mind having one, but I wouldn't advertise it 8-)
A button accordion is a relatively easy instrument when you learn the layout of it.
yeah, I'm sure you would quickly get the hang of it if you have some prior musical skills.
@@WoodyPianoShack well the fun thing is that I am a button accordion player. I learned how to play the piano, and when I started to play the accordion, it became even easier to play for me... Once I fully learned the layout, of course.
This is C. Then he plays an F.
I can't imagine the struggle it would have been if your Mother-in-law had a Diatonic accordion !
Auto-accompaniment before Casio! :)
That sounds like a lot of air for just a leak in the bellows, - I suspect there IS a breather button lurking somewhere and it's just stuck open somehow. I'm not overly familiar with button boxes, but I do play a piano box in a mostly-trad-Irish band here in Houston (Texas.) Accordion surgery still absolutely terrifies me, because there are so many tiny moving parts in there, but I've done a few minor repairs. I have faith that you'd fare better than I on that venture. We've all seen you open a DX7 and solder things onto a circuit board. Think of this as the mechanical equivalent. ;-)
Side note: I also play piano in the aforementioned band, and I recently upgraded to the Yamaha CP88, which I am loving. Thanks for all your videos on that beast earlier this year!
Cp88 and accordion killer combo I won't be tearing apart my mother in laws antique bellows but thanks for the tips
And there is a missing button at the top of the third row, too.
@@WoodyPianoShack yeah, if it IS the bellows themselves, I'd be hesitant, but it's relatively easy to get in there and take a look around. Those metal pins on either side should pull gently out with pliers. (there are 3 on the front on either side.) Suggest pulling out the ones on the left hand side, and then you can pull the accordion apart a bit and inspect the bellows. Actually, another potential leak source comes to mind... if one of those pins were missing, that would create a pretty significant leak in itself, but less than what the breather button would do, so more in line with what the leak in your mother-in-law's accordion sounds like.
Aghhhh... just painfully waiting to find out how the buttons work. Given up now - life's too short.
Great camera work from Eddie , loved the cut always of the boats and grasses, unfortunately the accompanying sound track was horribly distorted 😂
Thanks for letting me know strange no distort on my end anybody else?
Woody Piano Shack it was most notable when you pressed the buttons and pushed the ends together
Lol you got me there
According to your accordion chart, it looks like it doesn’t have all the keys of the chromatic scale. I couldn’t find B and D on there (maybe I didn’t see it right). It looks very compact but also really different to a piano keyboard. It’s like a querty vs davorak difference.
The whole chromatic scale is that even if I didn't play it! It seems like the diagram had more notes than on this particular instrument Perhaps it is a junior instrument. Who knows?
B and D are there lol right next to A and C
Master Bates and Seaman Stains? Sounds like an adult version of The Navy Lark......
I just consulted the urban dictionary for "pugwash" and none of the definitions there sounds like it is even remotely suitable for a kids' TV show. What were they thinking?
You're right about that I've heard the same thing too! I wonder if the show came before the terminology
Big hello Woody , hats off to the camera boy , not just for his brilliant camera work but for also having to listen to you play the accordion, lol , me thinks the accordion would sound so much better 60 ft under the water , lol , crazy instrument to play , very tricky too, much easier playing keyboards , love your crap jokes , lol , big thumbs are way up for you , have fun over there and stick to pianos and keyboards , lol
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I'm in trouble for cruelty to children :o hi ak!
@@WoodyPianoShack Laughing out LOUD , LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Is that Darth Vader in your accordion?
One thing you are doing right at least is smiling which is needed to become a good player :D
if all else fails, smile
That accordion sounds like it is in need of service. Is it a swedish or norwegian button system?
The problem is with the player methinks :)
Have a look at Roland’s V-Accordian - buttons or keys - and they connect to everything else! Mind you - you’ve shown me how to get started with these insane instruments! PS - those jokes were intended for banjo players...... and there’s no ocean deep enough..........
I think the best thing about accordion is to get away from electronics and software I gather the v accordion is popular product tho
Couldn’t agree more! My primary instrument is keyless trad flute - and my go-to instrument is a 40 year old bamboo flute even though I have a beautiful rosewood instrument; just something about it.... and no electronics in sight!
Alongside Master Bates, Seaman Stains you forgot Roger the Cabin Boy....khm khm, I'll get me coat....
how could i forget!
11:21 something's fishy there. Hahahaha. Sorry, I'll show myself the door, thank you. BTW there is an indentation on the C in the chord register ;-)
I saw that to when I was editing too late unfortunately :)
Nips a good camera man
An old Far Side cartoon:
Panel 1: St. Peter at the pearly gates - "Welcome to Heaven, here's your harp."
Panel 2: Satan in the midst of flames - "Welcome to Hell, here's your accordion."
The only thing I could tell is that this is a c system chromatic accordion according to the c scales
a touch of Ministry of Silly Walks... intentional?
Can't resist
Excellent jokes and competent cinematography by cameraboy. Not sure about the playing !
did you recognise the tune?
@@WoodyPianoShack Yes, in places ;)
@@WoodyPianoShack Yes, in places ;)
Open it up by carefully pulling out the pins around one of the edges of the bellow th-cam.com/video/HMJaxTOzbv4/w-d-xo.html (2 min). I think you will find that some or many of the leather/synthetic went-flapps (on the reeds) are misaligned or missing.
On the bass-side, I think the button in second row with the indent is a C (made easy to find without looking wile playing)
I don't think I will attempt any surgery but good to know thanks!
Lovely funny video :). Loved the silly jokes, even though the accordion actually can be a very beautiful, musical, sensitive instrument, or even experimental and wild. Check out Kimmo Pohjonen for example...
Glad you liked it! Yes you're right and even bagpipes banjo and oboe get a bad rap
He sounds like bald and bankrupt
Literally. So basically they both went to Cambridge
That looks like a women's accordion. That would explain the size but I'm not completely sure.
And that accordion isn't broken. If it was there would be no sound. I've seen these kinds of button accordion before but not much. I like they do that because of the small size. But I'm not sure
interesting comment, appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
@@WoodyPianoShack np. I must say that accordion is quite a joy to see. I've been trying to find one myself. For the record the straps should be tight so it doesn't fall off. That kind of accordion is made so you can move around and play I believe
Can you play the Monkey Island theme?
stopped at 2:38, wanted to stop a lot sooner...
There's 15 minutes of my life I will NEVER get back.
If it does not sound so terrible!
1:24 ... please learn the difference between "loaned" and "borrowed"
would have been very interesting without the funny uncle jokes....
drums REALLY annoying.......................