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Thread #95614 Message #1861207
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
17-Oct-06 - 08:33 AM
Thread Name: Playing the piano
Subject: RE: Playing the piano
A piano is a percussion instrument - a piano accordion is a wind (reed) instrument, more closely related to a pipe organ than a piano (or a harpsichord)!
Dick is right, you need to work using the bellows and finger attack in a VERY different manner to that of a piano - which is the main reason there are so many bad piano accordion players who are ex-piano players out there - and so many teachers of the piano accordion who think it is just like a piano...
If you are a piano player who is thinking about piano accordion, I recommend you read