Self-Employed Accordion Player
The last 3 accordions I’ve been repairing for The Accordion Shop have been Hohner 120 Bass piano boxes – all from a similar era but rather different inside. I thought I would do a quick blog with some pictures and a video to compare them. They are a Hohner Atlantic IV De Luxe with a […]
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Stradella basses have chord buttons for Major, Minor, 7th and Diminished chords. By using these chords in combination with different bass notes you can create other chord types, the most useful being Minor 7th, Major 7th, Half Dim (or m7b5), 9th chords (including b7th) and 6th chords (which I forgot to mention in the video […]
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Inside an Accordion Bass Mechanism. I needed a part so I started to dismantle an accordion bass mechanism that I had in my accordion graveyard.
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I was super excited to be invited to visit accordion factories in Castelfidardo with Chris Lovell who runs The Accordion Shop. I do a lot of tuning, repairs and renovations for Chris and the trip would mean we could buy a stock of spare parts and see some of the working methods in Castelfidardo’s factories. […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been using MusicTech accordion microphone systems since 1999 when my first Beltrami was built – both my Beltrami accordions have them and I think they are great, so I was happy to be asked to install the same system for a customer. Once fitted, the MusicTech accordion microphone system is easy to plug in […]
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New CDs from Georgia Fearn, John Forrester, Kent Nielsen and Damian Clarke I love getting the chance to play on other artists CDs and it’s always exciting to hear them afterwards. I am rather honored to be on 2018 releases by Georgia Fearn and John Forrester and slightly less recent (2016) albums by Kent Nielsen […]
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Repairing Accordion Keyboards. When the accordion keyboard needs mending it is often because they are too stiff to open and close properly, and sometimes I need to take them to pieces. All the pictures in this blog are accordions I have repaired for The Accordion Shop. I’ve always liked accordions because of their mechanical […]
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Accordion Repair – Hohner Atlantic IV De Luxe I tune and repair accordions both privately and for The Accordion Shop which has branches in Sunningdale and Rochdale. Last week I was repairing a Hohner Atlantic, the same instrument that you hear on the Pogues albums and the choice of many professionals. Hohner have been making […]
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Karma Police by Radiohead for Easy Accordion Hi – here is the sheet music and a video for Karma Police by Radiohead – The left hand Stradella Basses play only 8 different notes and you can reach them all from one position without moving your hand! Sheet Music Score
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Chromatic Scale for Accordion Bass The chromatic scale is the one that uses every available note – all 12 tones. A knowledge of chromatic scales is useful because many musical pieces have chromatic sections in their bass-lines. There is a general article on chromatic scales on Wikipedia. Here we will be looking at how to […]
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