BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'

Subject: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 07:56 PM

Omm, Pah, Pah!
Umm, Pah, Pah!
Omm, Pah, Pah!
Umm, Pah, Pah!

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 09:31 PM

You mean like this?

Wheeze, wheeze, HUNGGGGGGGGGGGA!

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:11 PM

All the cops in the donut shop say
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Talk like an Accordion
Talk like an Accordion

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:14 PM

Cabbage Rolls and coffee,
Ummmm, Ummm, Ummmmmmm!!

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Teresa
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:18 PM

With me, until I play some more, it's ...

squeaaaaak shiver thrum squeaaaaak pa pa

:)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:32 PM

Polka, Polka, Polka...

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:34 PM

Lady of Spain, I adooooooooooooooooooore you,
Ever since the night I first saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw you....

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: khandu
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:41 PM

If I could talk in that nasal annoying manner in which that nasally annoying Gilbert Goodspeed or Gotlieb or whatthehellever his name is speaks; then I could do a pretty good imitation of an accordian!

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:49 PM

Oooohhhhhh... baby... like velvet... like butter... sooooo... smooth...

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:51 PM

Teresa, do you play the accordion?

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: khandu
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 10:56 PM

Play? Accordian???

Do those words go together??

k

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 11:01 PM

CRUNCH!!!

(That's the sound an accordion makes when you run over it with a steamroller.)

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Teresa
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 11:10 PM

These boys are sooo bad, aren't they? but they're all handsome, as Sins says, just like all mudcat men; yes, they are. :)

Carol, as Jack Benny says, I don't know if I play the accordion, as I haven't had enough of a chance yet. I am fantasizing about collecting musical instruments, and I love experimenting with them. I do play a certain amount of guitar, and I'll have a mountain dulcimer soon, and I have assorted whistles and bamboo transverse flutes. I wouldn't be averse to adopting an accordion, either. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 11:18 PM

Don't do it Teresa! Playing the accordion will make you go bl... Oops! Nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Teresa
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 11:30 PM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Amos
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 11:52 PM

I'ne seen and heard folks play the accordion, and it's not bad. But...do accordions talk to each other?? I mean, do they trade notes (so to speak) on what different players feel like? Or who has too much squeeze? Or the best case with the best lining? What goes through their little velveteen reedy minds?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Peace
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 11:57 PM

ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an
assassin. (Ambrose Bierce)

Bierce is dead. The accordion lives on.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 12:16 AM

But we don't know that Bierce is dead. He just disappeared. No body was ever found. He may have discovered the secret to eternal life somewhere in that Mexican desert. Probably not, but I'd rather hold out for that possibility than to admit that the accordion won.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Peace
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 12:42 AM

Well, I like CarolC, and so I ain't gonna make no more remarks. She has said before that the accordion is a bless-ed instrumant, and I am not going to disagree with a lady.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 05:35 AM

Well, I like CarolC too. But it is my job to harass accordion players at every opportunity. It's a tough job and I get little enough thanks for it, though I do occasionally get paid back in kind. Like when CarolC sent Tweed the photograph to use in this tale of adventure.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 09:16 AM

Scientists out at the Idaho National Laboratory are working on a classified project with accordions. From what can be gathered (and that's a lot, 'cause the CIA is running it, but it might not be as accurate as their assessment of WMDs in Iraq) they are locking two of those huge, concert-sized accordions in a dark cabinet and while they breed bombarding the cabinet with tippy-top secret rho-neutrinos.

The baby button-boxes which are born or hatched or the result of cell division or however accordions reproduce will be dropped into terrorist strongholds worldwide. The babies will immediately seek 1) warmth and 2) darkness, crawling into the cellars and caves where terrorists are hiding and snuggling up to them as they sleep. When the terrorist awakens because of, shall we say?, certain plumbing pressures, he/she will see the button box, which glows in the dark because of being irradiated with rho-neutrinos during conception. The button box will let out a squeak and try to snuggle closer to the terrorist, who will grab an AK-47 or something and cut loose at the button-box, shooting the other 35 terrorists who share her or his cave or basement. Then the terrorist will shoot themself when they find what they've done.

At least, that's the general idea.

Oh, no button boxes will be hurt in the deployment of this plan, which is code-named Operation Squeezy, as they will be given the same armor that the Coalition troops enjoy.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 11:16 AM

It is not necessary to irradiate accordions with rho-neutrinos to make them glow in the dark. The "mother of toilet-seat" accoutrements with which so many accordions are well endowed are very efficient photon storage units. An accordion played in direct sunlight or under bright stage lights (Yes, some demented souls play their accordions in public!) will absorb enough light energy to continue glowing and sparkling well into the evening.

This phenomenon often induces a trance-like state among accordion players as they gaze at the sparkling trim and play "Roll Out the Barrel" for hours at a time.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 11:35 AM

The difference between an accordianist and a gentleman?






The gentleman knows the meaning of "No" "Dont" and "Stop".

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: just john
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 12:43 PM

Actually, Stefan Hussong recorded two of my favorite albums of Bach music on accordion. Good for contemplation, and not so ostentatious as, say, a pipe organ.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: khandu
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 12:59 PM

Now a kazoo...that is an instrument!! T'would be a grand thing if all accordian noise-makers would take up the kazoo! Then maybe they would finally earn some respect from us real musicians!

k

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Amos
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 01:50 PM

No-one wants to face the question of what it means to talk like an accordion. Do they have a code among themselves? Or is just wheezing as though one were a squeezed bellows? I can do that.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 06:20 PM

Now, a word from a German Female Accordion....

Omm, Mah, Mah!
Umm, Mah, Mah!
Omm, Mah, Mah!
Umm, Mah, Mah!

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Scoville
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 10:17 PM

Now, now--there is plenty of room in the folk music world for a well-played (no smart-ass remarks, please) accordion. Texas is absolutely chock-full of Germans, Czechs, Mexicans, and Cajuns and they all make excellent use of the accordion (I prefer Cajun myself but what the Hell, it's a big state . . . ).

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Pogo
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 10:12 AM

This is concertina discrimination!!!! I WILL report this to the Society of Equal Rights for Concertinas. Why should accordionese be the favored language??? Hm??

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 10:37 AM

I always wanted to play a "proper" instrument. I thought about the accordian but then I thought, nah, go for the "proper" instument.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 02:29 PM

Hee Haw

DT

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Azizi
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 02:41 PM

I like Zydeco music. The accordian is a key instrument in Zydeco music. Therefore I like accordians.

But I aint gonna talk like one. I rather dance to one.




Azizi

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: CarolC
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 07:17 PM

Looks like this one got away from me while I was out of town.

Teresa, I highly recommend it. It's one of the most versatile instruments there is. You can play anything on an accordion. (My favorite thing to play on it is Finnish dance music.)

Don't do it Teresa! Playing the accordion will make you go bl... Oops! Nevermind.

-- Bee-dubya-ell

You were going to say that playing the accordion will make you go blond, weren't you?

Rapaire, the flaw in that experiment is this: the larval stage of the accordion is the harmonica, not the button box. The button box is a sub-species of accordion.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 07:21 PM

Not blond, Carol. Bland.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 07:27 PM

I wish to draw people's attention the the subject of this thread, - it says 'Can we talk like accordions please?', not 'Can we talk like.... accordions please?'

:-)

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: GUEST,John
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 08:32 PM

You guys are such a total waste of time.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: CarolC
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 10:43 PM

Yes we are, John! So why are you here with us wasting your time?

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Tweed
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 12:09 AM

CarolC, I habv struck a bit obv luck! I will soon be the proud owner obv a 1940's Hohner squeezebox. I ain't seen it yet but am told it is a little beauty trimmed in red. Friends of mine in Mississippi found it at a yard sale down there in the original case with the original key!! HAW!! I couldn't resist the price and so I should mebbe be getting it this week. Sherman told me that it wasn't as big as a Lawrence Welk model and not as small as a button job so I figure it must be a zydeco type. I will try to make a sound recording for Bee Dubya as I know he enjoys this music so much.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: PoppaGator
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 01:17 PM

Schwaaah schwaah!

NOT "Oom pah pa." That's talking like TUBAS, not like accordions (and not even like sousaphones, which have come to have a much broader vocabulary than their cousins the tubas).

In fact, "schwaaa/schwaaa" (I'm not really sure how to spell it) is a colloquial Cajun word FOR accordion/squeezebox.

(By the way, there another thread, an older one, for those responding to the request "Can we talk about accordions please?" This is a distinctly different topic, "Can we please talk LIKE accordions please?")

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Teresa
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 01:41 PM

Well, if an accordion could tell a story, it might be something like this book, one of my faves. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 02:18 PM

Teresa,

There is a sample page on that site -- what a beautiful description!!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: CarolC
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 02:40 PM

Foolestroupe and PoppaGator, maybe we're talking the way accordions would talk if they were talking about accordions.

Way to go Tweed! Keep us posted.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Davetnova
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 03:19 PM

"Hey, will ya look at the buttons on her"

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Layah
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 03:30 PM

I suspect accordions have some sort of mind to mind communication so if we were to try to talk like them it would look like this "......."

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: Tweed
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 03:38 PM

I read that book "Accordion Crimes" too. It warped my mind completely and I won't be satisfied til I have a good squeezebox to keep me warm on cold nites.

It really is a great bunch of stories. Another one is "The Kingdom of Zydeco". Loads of stuff in there about Clifton Chenier and the ones who came before and after him. He effected people like Elvis did. Powerful, wildass, music.

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: robomatic
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 03:50 PM

Just beware that PETA could get on your behinds for some of the messages, here.

That's right: PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF, ahem, .....A...

Subject: RE: BS: Can we talk like accordions please?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 05:49 AM

Thank You PoppaGator,

You are the first second intelligent person in this thread.