Tony, as weird as this may sound to you, my wife actually played accordion as a child, so maybe my feelings are just misdirected .

As far as talent is concerned, to paraphrase Henry Miller, 'you can't define it but you recognize it when you see it'.



chas

PS: We (She) had a gigantic old Silvertone accordion (imported from Italy but sold by Sears) in a homongous thick leather case lined with red felt (or something fuzzy??). After sitting for years, we opened it one day to find that the bellows had dry-rotted. That was excuse enough for me to toss it in the trash. It actually looked like it may have been a nice (read expensive) instrument. Kind of sorry I did that now, it probably could have been repaired.

[This message has been edited by cgiles (edited 07-02-2010).]