[78-L] fwd: Art van Damme

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
>> The thing that I find most remarkable about accordions is how freakishly expensive good ones are. We live not far from Petosa, in Seattle, one of the top makers, and their instruments start at maybe $6,000 and go on up to $18,000 or $20,000. That's not as much as a 50s Gibson Les Paul or anything, but it's enough to buy a good car with. Obviously, you don't have to pay that much to get one, just as you don't have to play a vintage guitar, but jeez.
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> All that to play "Lady of Spain"?!  And why did EVERY kid play that song 
> on their accordion?  I know it is a cliche, but my friend Harris 
> Reinstein DID play that at out 5th grade talent show!  It's not an urban 
> legend.  I was there.  I heard it.  I've named person and place.
> 
> Mike (harris is gonna beat me to a pulp) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

You haven't lived till you've been in the high school orchestra behind Nathan 
Rosen playing the accordion solo in an eleven minute arrangement of "Exodus".

dl