The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107546 Message #2233748
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
11-Jan-08 - 05:59 AM
Thread Name: Artist: The Cambridge Buskers
Subject: RE: Artist: The Cambridge Buskers
I first 'discovered' Piano Accordions when I was about 10-12. I mean gazing lustfully at the pretty red boxes with buttons thru the window! I was told that the family didn't have enough money, but it would have been about the time, or just before my brother came along. I suspect it was because the instrument was 'not a real one like the Piano'!
Anyway it was after I heard their first album that I was inspired as to HOW to play the P/A! Took many years before I acquired my first one.
Dag (David) was my main inspiration as to how to play the box. (I wonder what happened to him?) He is able to get an orchestral score of any size on a small piano accordion. The two of them are a perfect duo for minimalistic music. I can see why they would go well at schools.
The style works well for the type of music they do - They do the Toccata (but not the Fugue!) in D Minor! It depends on a basic 'melody line' (Michale) and a basic 'ground' (Dag). This however, actually is what a large proportion of music is made of. The 130 plus tunes range from Traditional to Folk to Classical to Pop, to Modern (even the Beatles)...