DIY Videos

DIY Accordion Tuning: How to tune a button accordion

DIY Accordion Repair: Fix a weird sounding note (simple fix of blocked reed)

Cajun accordion tuning – A side by side comparison to standard accordion tuning

Irish Tunes

Shandon Bells – Willie Coleman’s – Tatter Jack Walsh | Uilleann pipes, fiddle, Irish box in B

Reels: Brosnan’s/The Ravelled Hank of Yarn on Paolo Soprani Elite II BC

Tell me now (waltz) – on Hohner Erica converted to B/C tuning

Irish American Accordion: Walters NY DC# (1950ies) – Banjo/Accordion tunes

“Some say the devil is dead” on the 1-row

Reels: The fair haired boy / The controversial on new Paolo Soprani Jubilee

The Fancy Fling and the Boys of Bluehill on restored Hohner Laurel Leaf in C#D

The Sherborne Waltz & The Provedence on Hohner 3-row Melodeon converted to C#/D/G

The Four Leafed Shamrock / Larkin’s Beehive (P. O’Brian) for the squeezebox chain on Facebook

The Alaskan Hornpipe on 1954 3-voice Paolo Soprani in B/C

Red batch Paolo Soprani in C#D​ – The Hollybush

How to play Irish music on the button accordion for beginners (free sheet music)

Sixpenny Money and When sick is it tea you want | Uilleann pipes and Irish box in key of B

Reels: Miss McGuinness/McGoldrick’s on new Paolo Soprani Jubilee

Dry modern sounding Hohner Erica Button Accordion in B/C

Castagnari Nik B/C

Hornpipes: The Peacock’s Feather (minor & major version) on new Paolo Soprani IV jubilee

Restored Irish button accordion in G#/A tuning for playing in B sessions

Corso 3 voice B/C with new reeds – Mick O’Connors/The Controversial

Union Street Session & Laingtons. Hohner Marca Registrada in D (3-voices)

Restored Hohner Presswood in B/C – La Cosa Mulligan

Reels: The Doon/John Dwyer’s on 3-voice vintage Hohner in C#/D

Grey Paolo Soprani Jubilee IV in B/C (LMMM) – The High Level Hornpipe

Mick O’Connor’s/Tom Ward’s Downfall on Black Dino Baffetti Accordion (B/C – 4-voice MMMM)

Enkhuizen Trekzakfestival 2019 – Busking in the streets at Dutch button box festival

Paolo Soprani Elite I in C#D​

Reels on Restored Hohner Erica in B/C w. Super Dural Reeds

Galanti in the key of C#D – 4 voice Button Accordion – LMMM

Irish Ballroom Waltz: my love is like a red red rose. 3-voice Hohner Marca Registrada in D

Hohner Erica B/C – dry tuning – The Rookery/The Edenderry

Hohner 114 1-row 4-stop in D – Dance Of The Honeybees

Cajun Tunes

Cajun accordion tuning – A side by side comparison to standard accordion tuning

Hohner 114 button accordion in C – Cajun Tuning – Le Canard A Bois Sec

Creole Stomp on Cajun Accordion Hohner 114 4-stop tuned in A

Weltmeister Cajun Accordion in C – Cajun tuned – Sous la Galerie

French Tunes

Wooden Weltmeister melodeon in the key of CF (516)

Breton Music on a restored Hohner Presswood converted to G/C

Early Pokerwork in DG – Tune: Java

Hohner Erica melodeon in the key of DG from the 1950ies

Hohner Pokerwork in A/D with medium wet tremolo

Serenellini Cassotto Super Star in AD

Restored Hohner Pokerwork Bb/Eb tuned to one of A. Werckmeister’s baroque temperaments.

Blue Victorini button accordion 3-voice GC – Trip to Skye

Hohner Pokerwork C/F – Valse à Eric

English Tunes

Tonder…The Eternal Friendship (Phil Cunningham) played on the Melodeon (Bb/Eb)

The moon and the seven stars on Weltmeister Melodeon

Road to Poynton on GC Hohner Pokerwork Melodeon (Dedic/Viennese Tuning)

Serenellini Deluxe GCF – The Battle of the Somme

The Sherborne Waltz & The Provedence on Hohner 3-row Melodeon converted to C#/D/G

New Beltuna Sara2 in DG – Bell Towers (M. Coleman) 

Other Tunes

Weltmeister in A/D – Psalmodikonvalsen (Swedish Waltz)

Swedish music on Hohner Laurel Leaf – converted from chromatic to A/D/G diatonic

Hohner Pokerwork Button Accordion in DG with new reeds

Weltmeister 1-row 4-stop Melodeon in the key of C

Restored Weltmeister Wiener Button Accordion Demo

New Beltuna Sara2 Button Accordion in GC – Svaneljud Valsen