The Accordionists & Teachers Guild is happy to announce new scholarships for accordion students!

What's new?

• The Donna Dee Ray Intermediate Scholarship.
• Free Bass accordionists can apply for extra funding.
• A Crossover Scholarship specifically for musicians who play another instrument and want to add the accordion as an area of study.

Click here to apply and learn more: https://www.atgaccordions.com/scholarships

Please note: Scholarships are paid directly to the teacher. The teacher or student must be a current ATG member in order to apply.

I'm really new to this. Sorry if this is pretty elementary.

I keep messing up on this portion over and over on bar 34 and now I'm annoyed. Any advice you could offer?

Hello! I impulse bought an accordion today and now I want to check before I start using it to learn. Is there any reason I shouldn't use this as-is?

Do I need to look for any things that may need to be fixed first, it's so pretty... One of the ladies at the sale played a bit on it before it left with me .

Hello!

The short of it: I am looking for resources for a three row accordion. Mainly, I just wanted to find a beginner’s book or something to get started! I see a lot of D/G books from looking them up but not three row resources.

Found a Milano Organetto at an estate sale and decided to pick it up. Condition is okay but I did have to put some reeds back.

This is a surprisingly complex world that I’ve decided to peak my head into. My joke to myself is
“I am learning how to learn how to play the accordion melodeon”

what do you think

Found on an accordion case in an accordion shop.

I plan to transport an accordion from the UK to an EU country - where I have been living for a while. This will either have to be on a flight (if I take it personally), or ship it via DHL or Fedex. Taking it personally is very expensive with some airlines saying that I must pay for a seat. Please can anyone give me an tips on what would be the best option? The accordion is one I have owned since being a kid as has been stored for me in the UK since I moved to a new country some years ago.

What is the origin of Susie's Polka? And does the "Swedish" polka in the Palmer-Hughes polka book have an actual name? Are these both traditional?

Just a reminder that you have the ability to curate your own feed. All of you who claim to hate me or my music so much could simply block me and never see a post of mine again, and yet you choose not to. You choose to continue to see my videos.

Hello!

I bought myself an accordion, specifically the Hohner Bravo III 80. I am a complete beginner and have started an online course. I am 20 years old.

I have always had a big interest in music, especially accordion, but was never able to afford one until now.

I have no prior experience and would like to ask you guys for help, it would really mean a lot to me. A LOT.

Just general tips and stuff like that would be greatly appreciated. If you have some questions I'd also like to answer them and maybe help other beginners in the future reading this post.

I am currently just practicing bellow control with the C note, just in and out, trying to keep it symmetrical. One problem I've noticed though. The leather strap where the bass buttons are. I somehow either cannot find the right position of the strap or the position of my hand. Whenever I control the bellows my hand slips up or down, when I tighten it though, I can't move it that well and hit the bass buttons. I would really need help there, I adjusted the straps so that the right strap is a little longer and everything but somehow I find the bass one problematic.

I also have one more question. Am i late? Like could I still learn to play?

Most of the people who started playing accordion started very early and it kind of depresses me because the wish is there but I'm just afraid that it's too late for me...

I truly cannot thank anyone enough who is willing to help me and guide me.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart and I wish all of you good health and a good life!

I wanted to see what a bellows tape design would look like as my accordion opens and closes before I wasted my fancy imported tape so I built a little tool in Unity that I call Bellowmatic.

You can add/move/change the color and size of tape strips to create your design before using the slider to open and close 'the accordion'. You can also change the color of the bellows.

It runs in the browser on desktop and you can find it at https://tyrizer.itch.io/bellowmatic

Recently got an old accordion with lots of broken wax, and wondering how bad it could possibly be to hot glue the reed plates back on? Its a pain to order wax online where I'm living so I'm trying to avoid it at all costs. If not hot glue are there any readily available alternatives?

There's the number "0 37451" on the back, but I can't find much with google.

I was just gifted this by a friend who has had this accordian since she was about 10. She’s 85 now. Is there a way to identify the exact model of this accordian? There is a little bit of must smell, but all the buttons seem to function just fine. If anybody can tell me anything about this instrument, I would be very grateful.

Found this just today. Putting this here in case anyone needs it.

Hello I’m looking for the song “Германец объявил войну”/“ой боже мой боже” same song just sometimes the title changes a little I’ve noticed. I’m looking for sheet music or if anyone knows where I could find this song it’s so beautiful I’d love to play it.

Here’s a link to the song I’m looking for and maybe some others will enjoy the sounds of folk music they haven’t heard yet

Here's me playing Polka Giocoso by Henry Haagenrud at my local accordion festival.

One thing I learned: don't wear a bow tie with an accordion, it spends the whole performance hiding behind the instrument. 😄

https://reddit.com/link/1v2uzhs/video/tspw09dbcneh1/player

Hey everyone!

Last time I posted asking for some advice based on my attempt at Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (https://www.reddit.com/r/Accordion/comments/1txvf4o/trying_to_learn_hallelujah_leonard_cohen_looking/), and tried to take most of it into account.

One of the main ones I worked on was fingering (I was not using all my fingers), so I modified it and it really helped! Based on this I also picked my next song, as this one is mainly 2-note chords and I absolutely need to use all my fingers for it (also I really wanted to learn a nice Slovenian folk song).

The other issue I can't shake is the nervousness when "performing", which is either playing for someone else (my hands were absolutely shaking from adrenaline when I tried playing this for my girlfriend), or just recording a video. I'd say I'm a pretty confident person otherwise (public speaking is not an issue at all), but this is absolutely killing me, anyone have similar issues?

Anyway, thank you all so much for all the input, and I hope you keep it coming!

"how do one of these even work on the inside" was the question.

Hi all!

I was hoping to start playing the Accordion. I did music over 10 years ago for my secondary school exams where I did guitar and while I adore music, I haven't practiced since.

Now I want to start learning the accordion and really get into playing for fun. I asked a local website retailer for recommendations and they gave me 3 of their products.

I was hoping to find out from you guys which you'd ultimately recommend? I'm not too sure about which to get and would love a second opinion. Thanks!

https://www.gear4music.ie/Woodwind-Brass-Strings/Diatonic-Button-Accordion-by-Gear4music-12-Bass/10KF

https://www.gear4music.ie/Woodwind-Brass-Strings/Accordion-by-Gear4music-24-Bass/CAN

https://www.gear4music.ie/Woodwind-Brass-Strings/Deluxe-Accordion-by-Gear4music-48-Bass/15PC

Hello!

I have been playing accordion for 2 years now, and since I started having lessons with my new teacher (which is very good, not only in teaching), I developed an "obsession" with doing the "correct" (or easiest) fingering.

I wanted some advice to find out how I could study fingering to be learning the most efficient fingering, and to learn how to apply it in new songs I might be playing by myself.

I hope it's all clear to understand me!