[78-L] fwd: Art van Damme

[Banjo Bud]

And don't forget "The Sharpshooter's March."

Bud

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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 2:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] fwd: Art van Damme

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
> 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
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 7:06:13 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] fwd: Art van Damme
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jeff Sultanof" <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
>>
>>> What is interesting about the accordion, the instrument that many 
>>> children
>>> studied when I was a boy, was that it was (and may still be) available 
>>> as
>>> a
>>> synthesizer/electronic keyboard back in the eighties. I once went to a
>>> wedding where the musician hired played one of these things, and I was
>>> most
>>> impressed. The instrument samples were rather good (he could sound like 
>>> a
>>> string or woodwind section), and he also had a drum sampler as I recall.
>>> Talk about one-man band.
>>>
>>>
>> Back in my youth (fifties), there was an operation that sold accordions
>> and lessons thereon to unsuspecting parents who apparently visualized
>> their offspring as "accordion STARS"...?! I have NO idea how many
>> seldom-played accordions now languish in attics/basements/outbuildings
>> ...eh?!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
>
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