I can now die a happy man. Somebody has invented.....

[XNASA]

The Digital Accordian!!! And it's got MIDI!!!!



http://www.rolandus.com/products/details.asp?CatID=17&SubCatID=0&ProdID=FR-7

[ET Awful]

1. Weird Al will love it :) n/t

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Spoken like a true Chicagoan.

Be still, your South Side heart.

P.S. I just checked out "Squeeze This!" by Those Darn Accordions! from the Chicago Public Library. My tax dollars at work!

[XNASA]

4. Well, the accordian was my first instrument.....

And the only instrument I've ever had lessons on.

Oops. There's another sure sign that I'm a Chicagoan. I ended a sentence with a preposition.

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. You are truly a Chicagoan

of a "certain age," as the French coyly put it.

[Donailin]

11. well sweet. can you play any trad irish music? n/t

[stevedeshazer]

3. Cool

But what is the sound of a digital accordian?

Looks from the link that you can play four simultaneous tracks...whoa.

[Squeech]

5. Yeah, but

I've already seen a MIDI accordion, a dozen years ago. It was played in a band from Nova Scotia called Rawlins Cross. They had a highland bagpipe too.

Despite which, they were pretty boring.

(The occasion was the Knitting Factory Bagpipe Festival tour, a way for Michael Dorf to get sponsorship money from Dewar's.)

[CBGLuthier]

6. Man that looks cool

Maybe it's the geek in me. I haven't touched an accordian in 20 years but that looks like a lot of fun to play.

[SoCalDem]

7. What's that I hear???

Lady of Spain????
Flight of the Bumblebee???

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. Yep, we can play all those old favorites

on our local TV station's talent hour again.

[B Calm]

8. This will make my 88 year old dad happy. I sent him the link..