Hi Kerry, pity you lost a nice accordion to some a**hole.

- For traditional Cajun stuff that's tough times for a fiddler, especially regarding the fact you're playing fiddle music basically for most tunes and songs. A Bb accordion is in Bb, and F on the draw. A lot of fiddlers already use a whole note lower tuned second fiddle to accommodate playing with a C accordion. Tuning one lower probably won't sound that well, unless a fiddle is specially built for that purpose maybe. Most fiddles sound OK only in normal tuning anyway.

- Bb and F would work for me, but it won't sound as much like folksy Cajun music and specific tunes, since you miss certain basic 1st or 5th related open strings for chording and droning .. Ask Lee Benoit's fiddler; Lee plays a lot of stuff on a Bb on the Youtube clips .... - Nout

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