Hi I'm George and I play and repair accordions so expect videos of me playing accordion, and, er, well at least talking about repairing accordions if not actually repairing them. I also love vintage keyboards so expect some synthy stuff too!
Thanks, very interesting! I have just inherited a Songbird 200 where the foam has perished and I am trying to identify a suitable replacement speaker cone. Would you be willing to suggest one that may work? Thanks again.
Did you ever get the hum figured out? Just curious. I love Cordovox accordions but I don't have the time or energy required to own one! I'm about to order a Roland chromatic button accordion and it's made me nostalgic for these (even though I've only ever seen one in person in an accordion shop in Florida).
@@georgeaccordion it works. Some more woodworking because it had/had water damage. So one of the sides needs to be replaced . Electronic is ok (after replacing about a hundred capacitors an a handful transistors), plays fine but needs some adjustments in levels and stuff.
Great fun to listen to, the music really dances along with great gusto! My mind is boggling as to how many hours you must have spent on restoring that magnificent instrument... I am taking my very first steps in cleaning and re-waxing on a humble, but lovely, 12 bass Scandalli and have completed the bass side as yet... and it took a weekend of patient work just to get that far! I have yet to dip my toes into tuning. Thanks so much for posting this and your other videos, they are encouraging and instructive too!
Hi ! I have the same beautiful organ. I find bothering that the upper manual has some kind of sustain even with the sustain levers set to off. The lower manual doesn't have this sustain. When you depress the key on the lower, the sound immediately stops, while on the upper, it sounds more like plastic. My Armon P300 organ had that thing also, so I'm beginning to guess it a desired effect. Any idea if that's tunable ?
The stradella system is such an amazing thing. You can toot along with a band playing basic basses and chords, even when incredibly inebriated. You can plan grand melodic lines using the bass and counter bass row's and imitate the Alexandrov Ensemble. There is so much one can do, as shown here by George, with a little more theoretical knowledge. Its so simple and easy to use, but also so deep and offers so many complex options. Love it. I had no idea there was this much to the left hand when I picked up my accordion a few months ago.
Thank you, this is very helpful. I am learning to play. I was wondering why I couldn't hear my piano notes sometimes or how to get them louder. This technique seems like it will help!
Yes - the wah (which they call "wow wow") and the pitch shift really make it synthy and lift it out of just being another combo organ! It must have been sensational in 1974!
Having played for a while, this all makes sense to me and I love explaining how the chords are laid out to other people! What I have learned for your videos though might surprise you - it's that it's ok to use my thumb! When I started I primarily did everything in the base with just three fingers. "Chord Combining" requires longer reaches! It takes practice to map the shapes your fingers make into "preprecorded" movements, but it's so nice that you only have to learn one shape per chord combo!
I allready have a nice 8 cent in my violin register. I use a trick just like you to increase even more: Push in one of the 8" stops, f.eks the one outside cassotto, and then ever so slightly push the master shift (palm), until the other reeds starts to make a sound. When doing this, my accordion goes all German, and I like that.
Like this very real example of us blokes who grew up ripping straight into things with little information and hardly any tools but getting the job sorted learning in the moment . Sometimes destroying equally lol . Exactly how from 2yrs onwards i taught myself lots of stuff and still enjoy delving deep from intrigue sensing gut intuition. great video George ive met and know so many interesting people who were in the shed garage outhouse all their young and older life's mending helping and even manufacturing products today keep up the good work 👍
