Hey. I had the fortune of practicing with a real B/C button accordion for about a month, but I had to give it up. It was borrowed. I was so heartbroken ,as I very much love playing the button accordion. So I bought a Schylling $18 piece of crap. I've practied on it for a few months and can play 4 or so tunes at a decent clip, even mimicing a John Williams recording for one song. I was just wondering if I'm doing myself loads of harm and getting horribly bad habits along the way by doing my learning on this instrument (which I have outgrown). Thanks!
If you work on getting the notes to respond at different bellows pressures, at starting notes with more attack, less attack, sneaking into and out of them, etc. on an accordion with poor response, when you move onto a box with better reeds, you will have a much better mastery of bellows/reed control than you are likely to have had othrwise. In my oponion.
Don't stay on a box like this for years, though, if you can help it.
ok thanks. I'm going to try to rent a nice B/C at some point when I get a job again (my injured knee has made it hard).
the onl;y thing is the schylling is so poor in response that often in the upper register there is no choice but to use a whole lot of attack to get ANY SOUND. I have to take it apart to maintain it because it develops leaks and the cheap metals of the buttons bends, and the thumbstrap broke and was discarded long ago in favor of vertical pressure with my thumb. There literally isn't enough useable bellows slack to play many songs on it correctly at anything other than a breakneck pace! I love the button accordion so much though that I keep at it.
Schylling button accordion
Schylling button accordion
Hey. I had the fortune of practicing with a real B/C button accordion for about a month, but I had to give it up. It was borrowed. I was so heartbroken ,as I very much love playing the button accordion. So I bought a Schylling $18 piece of crap. I've practied on it for a few months and can play 4 or so tunes at a decent clip, even mimicing a John Williams recording for one song. I was just wondering if I'm doing myself loads of harm and getting horribly bad habits along the way by doing my learning on this instrument (which I have outgrown). Thanks!
# Posted on November 20th 2004 by sifudave54
Re: Schylling button accordion
practice is still practice even if it is done on a peice of crap, better than doing nothing.
# Posted on November 20th 2004 by compaqjohn
Re: Schylling button accordion
If you work on getting the notes to respond at different bellows pressures, at starting notes with more attack, less attack, sneaking into and out of them, etc. on an accordion with poor response, when you move onto a box with better reeds, you will have a much better mastery of bellows/reed control than you are likely to have had othrwise. In my oponion.
Don't stay on a box like this for years, though, if you can help it.
# Posted on November 20th 2004 by kris
Re: Schylling button accordion
opinion
# Posted on November 20th 2004 by kris
Re: Schylling button accordion
ok thanks. I'm going to try to rent a nice B/C at some point when I get a job again (my injured knee has made it hard).
the onl;y thing is the schylling is so poor in response that often in the upper register there is no choice but to use a whole lot of attack to get ANY SOUND. I have to take it apart to maintain it because it develops leaks and the cheap metals of the buttons bends, and the thumbstrap broke and was discarded long ago in favor of vertical pressure with my thumb. There literally isn't enough useable bellows slack to play many songs on it correctly at anything other than a breakneck pace! I love the button accordion so much though that I keep at it.
# Posted on November 20th 2004 by sifudave54