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Re: Illusive 3rd position

Some other "positions" that can be played (using C accordion as example), A minor, D minor, E (check out Lost Bayou Ramblers live J'etais Au Bal version where they modulate to E), but each with missing notes, of course. Maybe some others.

When I got my first accordion, I didn't know about that position stuff, and had no one to watch, so just hunted and pecked out notes. I ended up playing everything I first learned (Jetais au bal and Eunce two step were two) in first position, didn't know about second til I got an instructional video, that opened up a whole new world.

Re: Illusive 3rd position

I'm still puzzling on Allons a Lafayette. Something very wrong there! Haven't quite put my finger on it. Working feverishly.

But yes Bryan, I believe we're about to open up a whole new world with this "positions" thing. Or we could walk away from it and never know the better. It would be like some Amish guy and his wife or daughter knowing only the missionary position and then one day they find a TV, a VCR, and one California porno movie in the barn next to the horse's stall with a note taped next to the play button saying, "PRESS PLAY BUTTON". They could either throw the whole thing to the road and follow their traditions of no technology, or they could secretly press that play button and open up a WHOLE NEW WORLD. LOL, they may not understand it completely at first, but hey, if it feels good, they don't have to understand it right? Then 10 years later, their whole way of life is somehow completely destroyed and in disarray just from pressing that got dam "PLAY BUTTON" that day in the barn...

Re: Illusive 3rd position

Hey Greezy, I'm up here in Ohio at moment working alongside the Amish and they're great
people with a sense of humor. They have canny ways to get around technology and modern ways like you wouldn't believe- without compromising their principles, joy to have around and I can't fault them.

Hopefully after all these work trips I'll clock up enough air miles to make it to Lafayette!

Re: Illusive 3rd position

Dang AJ, way over there in Ohia. I had a roommate from Ohia once. We partied down hard back in those days. Good fellow he was. As for them Amish. They have my complete and total respect. They are the other microcosm in America. They kept to the old ways even more than the Cajuns. And I'm sure they are as crafty as it gets and all the better for it!



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