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All posts tagged “chromatic button accordion”
The Wrong End of Hambo
Here in Canada, this is Thanksgiving weekend. What better time to sit back and listen to some accordion music? http://youtu.be/MVOp4QV79-c Here’s a definition of Hambo from Wikipedia: The hambo is a traditional dance that originated in Sweden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.… Read More
Portuguese Folk Music #corridinho
I enjoy listening to Portuguese folk music. Maybe it’s because I lived in a mostly Portugese area of Toronto for quite a while and have a fondness for Portugese culture. Here’s a player named Raul Godinho who really knows his way around the chromatic button… Read More
Yes, it’s accordion time again…
Here’s Glen Qvarnström
Le quadrille de Rivière-du-Loup
Looks like this fellow is playing a chromatic button accordion.
Chromatic Button Accordion Update
I’ve started to work on learning the chromatic button accordion. Basically, I’ve been attempting to play some simple tunes by reading music and finding the notes, trying lots of repetition to give my fingers the experience to always know where to find the notes I… Read More
Gammal Dalavals Carl och Eberhardt Jularbo från Klockarnäs
The Indifference Waltz
I was surfing around YouTube when the title of this piece caught my eye…turns out it’s beautifully played on a Bayan chromatic accordion. I’m not too knowledgeable about chromatic button accordions but I think that Bayans are what they call B system or B griff,… Read More
Cape Breton Medley
This fellow is playing chromatic button accordion. Very lovely music. These tunes carry me away.
Mazurka
The following is from Wikipedia: The folk origins of the mazurek are two other Polish musical forms—the slow kujawiak, and the fast oberek. The mazurek is always found to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note (quaver) pair, or an ordinary eighth note pair… Read More
27th Street 