And the corrected sentence would be: Yeah at this age, you're "LUCKY" to wake up in the morning.

Gary

Hey, if we keep at it, we can have Donny speaking (and writing) English in no time .

chas

PS: Just kidding you Buddy, we know that sometimes the fingers race ahead of the brain (or vice versa, whichever). That's why some of us hit PREVIEW before we hit SUBMIT .

Frankly I couldn't are less about spelling
hated English class in school too

... take off the mittens before you type

Walk a mile in the shoes of an accordionist and you'll see Fran is right on the money with most of what he wrote here.

In fact, I'm still using my accordion training when I'm thinking "circle of fifths."

Reference professional pianists. The top-of-the-line ARE top-of the line!. The rest of them are poorly trained and poorly educated. Every time, that's EVERY TIME, I hear a pianist play something I like and I ask them "what they did?,"I get swept under the rug with something like..."I don't have time to talk just now." I finally figured it out. Most of them don't really know what they're doing. Some don't even know what key they're playing in. Or a simple chord progression. Some are even teaching.

So Chas...tell me...why do you have this obsession with hatred towards the accordion? What fuels it? Were you dating one and she left you for another accordion? Did one try to mug you? Were you driving down the road and an accordion rear-ended you? Were you desperately trying to learn to play one and you couldn't get a handle on it and so you blamed the accordion for your failure?

I absolutely despise the saxophone (to me it sounds like an 800 lb sumo wrestler passing air) but it's a big jazz instrument and I know you're into jazz so I make it a point not to mention my "hatred" of saxophones (except for Paul's saxophonist).

I thought by now you would have gotten some kind of clue that some of us here happen to like and RESPECT accordions, not to mention it's popularity in countries like Mexico, Brazil, and most South American countries, Russia, France, the Balkan's etc. I'm sure you get the bigger picture.

I said it before and I'll say it again. I'm very much offended with your accordion remarks. What you decide to do with this statement is up to you. Personally, if I already know something I'm going to say will offend someone, I.....DON"T SAY IT.

An accordion does more than producing different musical sounds. It brings back a time, a time when music was gentile, it brings a picture of the different countries, folk music, Jazz, simplicity.

My friend had Midi installed in his accordion; plug the accordion into a keyboard and he has many of the things we have. I believe it to be one of the best midi controllers out there.

I walked into a restaurant and someone was playing some R&R. It was the time when R&R was making a big move. I had to find out what kind of keyboard he was using. He was using a midi accordion and a sound module. WOW

There is not another instrument that represents life in so many areas in this world. My friend bought a Kn7000, loves it – but there were times when I found him at the edge of his bed playing his accordion; he never stopped loving the instrument.

In my music school of over 400 students, we had accordion bands, accordion soloists, guitar and accordion – and you didn’t have to plug them in.

And yes, when an accordion moved to a keyboard he had one great right hand – and a poor left hand.

John C.
PS, Mark why your dislike about the sax??????

Gee Mark, every time I start to warm up to you, you decide to put up a post like this. Because of it's unique sound characteristics, there are probably more 'jokes' about accordions than any other instrument. Fran, and most everyone else on this forum, knows that I'm just kidding him and that I have no malice towards him (in fact, just the opposite), accordions, or accordion players. It's just another musical instrument, which some people like and some people don't. 'HATE' is way too strong a word to describe my feelings about any inanimate object and I think you're making WAY too much 'ado about nothing'. So, do I like accordions? I'm not a big fan of the classic accordion sound. Do I like accordion players? Some, has to do with who they are as a person, not what instrument they choose to play.

I don't want to get into a pissin' contest with you (and I won't) because it's such a petty and ridiculous situation. There are tons of horrific things going on in this world to be offended by; poverty, corporate greed, endless wars, environmental assaults, racism, sexism, religious fanaticism, ....and the list goes on. Be offended by those; better yet, be an activist and try to do something about it. You've got the passion, use it in a 'righteous' way.

chas

+1 Chas