Greetings from Los Angeles. I love listening to you play. My dad was from Rutherglen and we were raised listening to the Alexander Brothers, Jimmy Shand, Kenneth McKellar, Harry Lauder, etc...but I love your style and positive energy! Thanks. I'll be taking my laptop to play your vids for my dad tomorrow. He's coming up on 90 and will love hearing you.
I have a 96 bass Vignoni Ravel IV and I can tell anyone out there they are brilliant accordion's although im no where near as good as Charlie. They are well worth every penny. Great version of the Louis's Waltz my friend.
Greetings from Washington state, the Seattle-Tacoma area. Great playing sir. I had not heard or seen a Vignoni accordion before. It seems to be a very quality instrument. I play (not very well mind you) a 1959 Carelli "Jet" accordion. My son plays a 1955 Petosa. Hope to see more great videos from you. Ciao
I'm sorry if I've got this wrong but did your grandparents Jim and Edith live in macduff? If so, my granda and granny lived in the flat underneath at number 8 :) My granda got one of tour albums and he lived your rendition of 'after all theses years' so do I!
Yes it sure is midi ready. It has MusicTech Q-Link Midi and internal microphones with adjustable volumes for left and right. Not sure they still make Classique anymore. I never actually had the pleasure of playing one but I'm reliably informed that Vignoni is even better :-)
sounds lovely, im actually looking for a new accordion but its a classique im efter. canne seem to get ma hands on one though. the one your playing is midi ready though isnt it?
Thanks God for you tube, I remember you playing in Inverurie, and I even bought a couple of cassettes, (I still one of them, one got stolen in a car that had been taken it had the orange blossom special on there) Keep up the good music , oh on a last not you played with another guy, I think you called yourselves the generation gap or something like this....
Hi Peter, that was a while ago. Yes. That was with the late George Sim. We had some great times playing. Sadly missed, he was a great man and full of enthusiasm and encouragement. Still have a few of those cassettes with George left but not sure if people still use cassettes these days and there's 2 new CDs recently and a lot of digital stuff but they are all on the CDs, Celtic Voice, and Out o' the Box. charlieabel.com/home/record-archive/. and a Live ceilidh album with Iron Broo.
It is aye. It's a demo box for vignoni accordions (see link above) It's a brilliant wee thing & it's effortless to play. Fits on aircraft as carried on luggage. Even fits in yon cage thing. It's impossible to play without smiling! Vignoni do button key versions too. I have another one I think you'd like the look of an' a. I'll see if I get another video up next week. I'm playing 3 gigs this weekend so won't have time for anything serious. You could have a Vignoni made to order for you. (:-@
