Nice arrangement.... I read some of the comments and found that you are blind Thank you for proving that humans can overcome diversity with talent and perseverance. I had that same Iorio many years ago and while it is gone, I still have an Iorio MIDI Plus II as a backup....but moved to the Roland FR 8X Dallape when it came out. I don't know if you can find anything on RU-vid with Vladimer Kalistov. He also was blind since birth but an incredible musician on MIDI Bayan chromatic accordion. I knew him years ago when we met in San Francisco. He now lives in Rome, Italy.
Thank you very much for your compliments! Life is a struggle to overcome adversity no matter who you are. I am very fortunate to have a wonderful husband and a lovely daughter to bless my days. My greatest regret is that I don't know what they look like. Music is most certainly an important part of my life and a way to express myself. Unfortunately, my Iorio developed too many electronic problems and It's not easy to get them fixed so, I had to move on as well. Now I play a Dino Baffetti with MIDI and a Beltuna as a backup. I'll have to look for Vladimer Kalistov and see what I can find. I did study under Ivan Jaskevich in Kiev. Actually, I lived with him and his wife for several months. He was also blind but he was a remarkable man and incredible musician. Bernadette
That's what I thought of when I was playing! When I was about 11, I saw the film, "The Great Waltz," and fell in love with the music of Johann Strauss Jr. Bernadette
Dziękuję za zainteresowanie! Być może masz rację, ale nie taki jest cel pierścieni. Jestem prawie ślepa i widzę tylko 2 procent, więc lubię biżuterię, ponieważ się błyszczy i to widzę. Otrzymałam jednak kilka podobnych komentarzy, więc jak widać, w moich nowszych filmach noszę tylko jeden lub dwa mniejsze pierścionki. Bernadette
Well I somehow missed this wonderful arrangement you put together. Until now. You really have my attention in the way you played this piece so masterfully. I did a little survey on RU-vid for this waltz on the accordion. Nobody nailed it quite the way you did. Now maybe the way you played it is just my preference. I don't know. But it sure delighted me when I heard those triplets around the halfway mark. And ... your sense of timing is impeccable. One thing we do know for sure. The accordion was just a plan in the dream world when Strauss senior and junior were living. But just supposing, if you believe is past lives, and you had showed up with and accordion in Vienna, they would probably have hired you on the spot. But we already know what an orchestra you already have at hand ... even if the timing is off by a century and a half. Or so. By the way, this email goes on for three more paragraphs. Being curious, I notice things and so I thought maybe this is just one of those times I feel like being a bit gabby. I haven't seen you play this model in a long time - maybe a year and a half now. And I wondered why? Then my ears picked up on something in the master treble. You do the introduction and then get into the waltz. Third time ascending to higher notes in the scale my ears picked up a slight funny sound. Maybe a sound that a few reeds are just ever so slightly, slightly a miniscule out of tune or a bit cranky. So I listened over and over just to establish that it wasn't my imagination. I even wondered if the recording equipment maybe had a slight glitch in the audio at that moment. But in point of comparison, you now seem to favor the Dino Baffetti rather than the Iorio. According to my listening, I can only say that after going through some early videos of you with the Iorio and comparing them with the sound of the Dino Baffetti, I do like the sound of the Iorio better. The treble is very rich with lots of colorful undertones and the base is not as imposing but still has a nice gusto. Now the other side of the story. I have several accordions in the higher end. I really like them all. But there are drawbacks in half of them. I can play anything on my Roland fr-8x but all I hear is electronic. Digital, digital, digital. Not one note of acoustic when I would really like to hear a real acoustic sound. But it's a fun instrument because I get to do all sorts of weird stuff on it. When it comes to classical of any type, it can be quite demanding on the instrument. I favor two models, my Hohner Mattia IV and my Picini. I like the Picini for its all rounded richness in color, modulation of tone and overall quality of acoustic sound. But I'm forever retuning it because of all the demand I put on it because that's what the composer instructs. The Mattia, on the other hand, is a workhorse and I just have to play it. But it doesn't quite reach the rich quality of sound that the Picini has. You also have two Giulietti models which I also have. But once in awhile they will also go out of tune at the odd time. And they're almost workhorses like the Hohner models I have. The thing about the Picini is that it has the most expensive and the finest reeds made. And I think a combination of higher than usual humidity and dust affect the reeds through buildup. And that's a beef I have with fine reeds and not necessarily with the Picini model itself. But I'm still wondering, what did you do with your Iorio? I think overall it has a great sound even with its built in digital hardware and programming. I know books and essays can be written on this subject, but please just give me a little of your own opinions about what you favor and disfavor wen it comes to your experience with accordions. By the way, I know a piano player with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra who tells me about the same likes and dislikes when it comes to his instrument. And being with an international orchestra that travels, this must be universal.
Thank you very much for your comments and compliments! I would love to take the time machine back prior to the accordion's invention and see what the great masters would have written for it. The accordion has a wonderful tonal palate and I think it would have inspired many composers. Unfortunately, my Iorio started have problems with the electronics. Since it's an older model, no one seems to work on them anymore. I traded it off on the Dino Baffetti and I'm very happy with this accordion. It has a tone chamber which the Iorio did not and I think the voicing is also better. In general, I don't like digital accordions. An accordion has to have reeds. That is why I never play reedless accordions and it would take an awfully generous offer to get me to play one. I do use MIDI but only to compliment the natural sound of the accordion and add fullness, if necessary. Even when I do use MIDI it is 10% of the sound at most. I have several accordions and every one has a purpose. I use each in different styles of music. You mentioned my Giuliettis, do you also play free bass? Bernadette
Thank you! For its time, it was a very nice accordion but a bit heavy. I had to retire that one because of electronic problems. No one seems to want to work on those anymore. Bernadette
Thank you very much for your compliment! Since I almost completely blind, I create my own arrangements by listening to various orchestral versions. Therefore, I am sorry but I have no musical transcription for this song. It is played entirely from memory. Bernadette
@@Rock.Pop.and.More_4accordion oh my god, sorry, i didn't know you are blind... 😓 it's fantastic that contrary to this fact you still play and play godlike. Wish you good luck in any business, live long and prosper 😁
@@ThaProducar Thank you very much. I was a premature infant and have been blind from birth with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Sometimes, it just is what it is. I do thank you very much for your compliment. Bernadette
![Edward and Bernadette [née Conlon] Zabawa](http://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_m17tOmDVOcgZjImsmkgYsiuMYEAx_TOitlNUL5scM=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj)