National Accordion Awareness Month ends on a good (if overwhelmingly minor and skwaunky) note. I trust everyone has been vaccinated by this point, and that you'll all be oom-pa-pa'ing into July with a patriotic confidence that will ensure that no flags will be burned, and that for the rest of the year all tunes are in 2/4 time, and played in a major key.
But we accordionists are a bunch of bleary eyed romantics and we will forever live in June- -we'll walk in 3/4 time, settle for the occasional mention over the next 11 months, and practice hard so that next year we'll be as big as- as popular as- but better than, America's Soccer Team.
So, to end the month Kim received her accordion in the mail yesterday! She got in on Ebay from a fellow named Ignaz who lives in Germany. Hers is a circa 1960's Weltmeister with a rich, wobbly, and yes,
skwaunky musette. Hopefully, by this time next year I'll be posting recordings of our duets, and inviting all of you to our new apartment for a dance party (accordion music only).
National Accordion Awareness Month ends on a good (if overwhelmingly minor and skwaunky) note. I trust everyone has been vaccinated by this point, and that you'll all be oom-pa-pa'ing into July with a patriotic confidence that will ensure that no flags will be burned, and that for the rest of the year all tunes are in 2/4 time, and played in a major key.
But we accordionists are a bunch of bleary eyed romantics and we will forever live in June- -we'll walk in 3/4 time, settle for the occasional mention over the next 11 months, and practice hard so that next year we'll be as big as- as popular as- but better than, America's Soccer Team.
So, to end the month Kim received her accordion in the mail yesterday! She got in on Ebay from a fellow named Ignaz who lives in Germany. Hers is a circa 1960's Weltmeister with a rich, wobbly, and yes, skwaunky musette. Hopefully, by this time next year I'll be posting recordings of our duets, and inviting all of you to our new apartment for a dance party (accordion music only).
wow - everyone is learning to play!
ReplyDeleteAmy got hers in the mail and it's so beautiful it makes me wish that i were more musical and ambidextrous - most everyday when i drop by she's playing around with it - she serenaded us with 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' and kept cracking herself (and us) up because it sounded so funny and good at the same time
xosusan
crap, i can't do 'mary had a little lamb' yet.
ReplyDeleteShe looks so thrilled to have it. Accordions must be the happiest instruments in the world.
ReplyDeleteSusan-
ReplyDeleteWhen are you going to learn so that there can be a nee' Resser singing and squeezing (and dancing) troupe?
k-
your time will come.
Scruffy-
Accordions are actually probably one of the saddest instruments in the world but somehow I think that they actually help the player deal with THE TRAGEDY THAT IS DAILY LIFE- there is sometyhing therapeutic about the push the pull, the squeeze, the skwaunk.
Yea! I got my CD. I can't wait to listen to it. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful!
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