something you'll never see on American Idol

wow.

June news

Well it's been a while since Accordion World has been updated... sorry to my many readers.

What began with great expectations has diminished to a guttering flame near extinction.

My long awaited purchase from Bulgaria has either been lost at sea or from the begining I was duped. Interpol is investigating the situation and I hope to gain satisfaction eventually. But for now, my interest in the PA has dwindled.

Instead, I have redoubled my efforts on the l'accordéon diatonique, système si/do - aka - l'accordeon Irlandais - a propos de l'Irish Button Box.

What I have come to appreciate is, that is is very difficult to attain a high level on both instruments -- the time required to practice and increase in ability on one instrument makes it very difficult to do the likewise on the other instrument.

Specifically -- I have made strides in my l'accordéon diatonique abilities in the past couple months - but have not been able to give time to the piano accordion my friend has so graceously given me the use of.

So... for now, I believe I will continue to do that which is of my first love, playing la'musique d'Irlandais because I have invested so much time to gather the abilities I currently have.

I realize that it would be very difficult to transfer the skills I have gained on the l'accordéon diatonique over to the piano accordion. Someday I would like to try to learn and play the PA but now is not the time.

One of the best accordion players in the world

Listen to this great story on Esteban Jordan on NPR!

National Public Radio All Things Considered June 2, 2009

Link to story here

While waiting...

While waiting for my Weilmeister to arrive from Bulgaria, I've been working on getting my reels up to 113. This vid is far from perfect, but I'm playing the reels a lot faster than ever before. Just took a lot of practice.



Tomorrow night I'll play this reel set with Chenille accompanying on the piano and the girls dancing at a nursing home gig. Hopefully I'll get a vid.

purchasing from overseas

well, my experience with purchasing on ebay from overseas is not working out so well.

I purchased back on 4/23 and I have not seen my item yet.

Paypal provides purchase protection for 60 days, so until 6/15 I can file a paypal claim and hopefully get my money refunded.

Lessons learned: don't buy an item without a postal tracking code. If you can't track it you'll never know if you are going to receive your item.

PSYCH!

ha!
the tracking code I received was for something else -- not an accordion... the weight (4.2 K)should have tipped me off...