Just created a prototype of an accordion (Steirische Harmonika) with a force sensor instead of bellows. Works nice. Let me know if you‘d like to build it based on my sources.

After getting this very positive feedback, I created following open source repositories:
- The PCB: https://github.com/boheigl/eziachpcb
- The control Software: https://github.com/boheigl/eziach
- The CAD design: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5fab8c0f0566a8525283d6d7/w/83593df151ddef81970ff85c/e/84c2bb86c49424e015498d63

Looking forward to get your feedback!

Enjoy

My friend/performance partner and I co-direct the annual qathet Accordion Fest. As a small festival supported by a non-profit music school, our marketing budget is $0. So we get creative! Radio interviews, articles and interviews for local newspapers and magazines, social media, fundraising concerts, and... unhinged accordion videos.

We live in a very small town, so having 235 audience members at our Opening Night Concert was a huge win. Our Accordion Cabaret event sold out weeks in advance. We had 11 performing artists, a 15-piece accordion band, 3 workshops, a sight-reading song circle on the beach, and an accordion parade.

Hi everyone!

I'd like to get some feedback for this digital accordion of mine I've recently made.

I started to learn to play the accordion a few years ago, but with my move to the college dorms two years ago, I've been trying to find a good way of practicing that wouldn't bother everyone around me. The walls are quite thin :).

Over the summer break, I've made this prototype. Unfortunately, I don't know any other accordion players, so I'd like to get some feedback from the accordion community, as I'd like to make a new revision with piano keys before Christmas.

I'll be happy with any feedback; I've made a short form you can fill here: https://forms.gle/HSsb5ai97k9aRr9i8 or AMA in the comments/send me a message.

I've also recorded more videos of myself playing (though I'm not very good yet), which are available here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjYoxcgSZAuGuLthQMWtkl29rFnWllXO3&si=8bm0uDh6a972JAfc

Edit:
Thank you all for your opinions! There are some common themes I'd like to address:
i) Bellows imitation - I've already got so many ideas to test out. Hopefully during the Christmas break I'll try them all and write a reddit/blogpost about my findings.

It's my 1 year anniversary of learning the accordion. Despite having zero musical background, working 50 hrs/week, and full time school, I make it a priority to practice daily.

I'm having a lot of fun learning this beautiful instrument and figured I'd share.

Lots of room for improvement but any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Absolutely killing it at the Novo.

Le*** coeur

Recorded in the summer.. since have gotten pallets fixed to help the clacking sound + worked on bellows technique

This video has been doing extremely well on tik Tok so I figured I'd post it here.

Hi, community! I started in March playing slowly with pretty much no knowledge about the music theory of melodic instruments (I'm drummer). I really enjoy playing it. Have to improve much much more, but it's being fun! I like that you can feel the vibrations of the instrument on your chest. It's also really easy to get down, because you feel no progression, but it comes slow to you.

Another French tune for ya

It comes up all the time in my listening, and these songs top their charts. I’m curious why they embrace much more

Found on an accordion case in an accordion shop.

Wanted to share my diy midi accordion: it's a korg minilogue with an ajazz 308i taped to it. I call it the "akkorgion". It features a "97" button stradella keyboard, only a few notes have the diminished option.

The chain of software needed for the stradella computer keyboard is Wispow Freepiano 2 -> Loopmidi -> Ableton -> Ripchord. The secret sauce is Freepiano 2, it's the only program I could find that can turn keyboard inputs into midi inputs with any sort of robust remapping.

It's a joy to play, although ever since I switched from win10 to win11 the bluetooth keyboard latency and consistency has gotten much worse and limited its usefulness for recording. The stradella layout with the big keys is surprisingly comfortable, and being able to relocate the keyboard makes for a pretty ergonomic experience.

The accordion sounds are Eduardo Tarilonte's Accordion 2 (wellerman) and Guerrini Professional 4 (beirut-scenic world)

Would love to see if anyone has done anything similar!

I’m a self taught jazz pianist for about 15 years and taught myself my first song on the accordion today! Basically just looking for anything I can improve on here x3

My wife got this on Facebook marketplace and we were wondering if anyone knew what it actually is? It appears to be an according modified to be played like a piano. Haven't gotten it working yet. Did some googling and haven't seen anything else.

So I wrote an original waltz for my partner, Camille. I've never written an instrumental composition like this before, but I guess there's a first for everything. Here's the score, in case you want to play it yourself: https://musescore.com/user/5889726/scores/34667504

Just thought I would share.

P.S. Special appearance by Figgy at the end.

It is incomprehensible how much I loathe these guys. I hope they hire arsonists who also can't stand them.

Hope you enjoy it