I was reading in this discussion to see if I could find any information on those U shaped mounts some guys use on the front of their accordions. The fist I saw was Bois Sec Ardoin, but more recently I have been seeing Andre from lost Bayou ramblers using the same thing. I emailed Andre and he told me that it's the element from a Dynamic mic in there but I still don't get what those mounts are. Also in response to folks talking about using a Telephone element, you can take the earpiece and use that as microphone or you make a simple circuit with a 9volt battery. I was actually considering that myself having seen that done for Harmonica mics.