The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102196   Message #2069004
Posted By: treewind
05-Jun-07 - 08:35 AM
Thread Name: Seriously demented box-squeezers
Subject: RE: Seriously demented box-squeezers
OMG, now I remember Ralphie playing me the Hackney Martians when we stayed with him. And I haven't seen AWOL for far too long.
I miss that madness, not living in London any more.

I had a quick look at some of those other videos - Jose Feliciano attempting the Flight of the BB on guitar wasn't a bad effort either!

As for the Bach - that's typical classical accordion playing. There's a lot of it about, nothing to do with folk music. I like the way the fugue started on the LH buttons - very neat. I've heard some very nice Scarlatti played like that too. Those are "free bass" Accordions where the left hand buttons give several octaves of pure notes and I believe the button layout is similar to the 5 row RH layout. Totall different form the folk accordion Stradella bass with one octave of notes and ready made oompah chords.

Anahata