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Hi, my name is Paul Becker and I'm here to talk to you about accordions today on behalf
of Expert Village. This section is about a chemnitzer concertina we have seen the little
English or British concertina before this is another version much much larger. These
were organically build in Germany and most concertinas they are much larger in 2 places;
1 form without all the lime stones in red went to Argentina and these are instruments
called Bandonion in which they played tango. This version came to the united states and
it is almost exclusively used in the world now by very few Polish Americans and some
polka bands used cvs it is no longer used in Europe it is not used in any other kind
of music. But there is probably going to be 2000 chemnitzer concertinas players in the
world that live and die for this big concertina. Unfortunately I have not learned how to play,
it is single acting that has different notes in and out and you can see it is a big powerful
instrument that maybe when I retire I would learn how to play this things. As you can
see it is also quiet beautiful. The people who play this concertina has their own notation
for the notes and it is kind of scripted to my eye and I always wonder cause there is
not always so much logic to me where the notes are on these buttons. And I spend a lot of
time asking people who play these, were there some mystery key that made it easy to play,
some puzzle, in the end it just turns out that this thing apparently just dissolves.
So it is not a very logical system is that you just learn it and you know where the notes
are. You will notice like the little concertina that this does not play chords, both sides
just play single notes.