And now I return for a final time with the "twist" and to drive an older point home.

This echo vibration that I was talking about can best be heard coming from the old accordions such as Sterling, Monarchs, etc. Them gat dam Germans really knew what the heck they were doing with them old accordions and reeds I tell ya. You can also hear a very similar echo vibration when a Hohner HA-114 is played. Those HA-114's had "Tupelo" T-Marked German reeds in them back in the day. Very sweet sound when wet tuned. Iry Lejeune played or recorded on both a "C" and a "D" accordion. Both were wet tuned! I guarantee you that he chose this type of tuning over any other because of the reach these wet tuned accordions had. He was able to hear and feel their vibrations much better than a dry tuned accordion. 15 cent wet. That is the wet setting his accordions were tuned to. As I have mentioned several times, I own a Louisiana built accordion with Tupelo Ha-114 reeds in it and I had it tuned to an exact match to Iry Lejeune's "C" accordion folks. I can assure you that the feeling you get when you strike a note on that accordion cannot be achieved with the modern day reeds. And the distances that accordion can reach is more than my other accordions. It can be heard farther away even with those little Hohner Tupelo's as they sing their song very powerfully! Remember that feeling you got when you heard or played an old Sterling or and old HA-114. You knew it was different. You knew it penetrated you down to your soul. Then you went and had an expensive accordion made in Louisiana and tuned the way the builder thought it should be... and for some reason, it was missing something. Oh it was awesome at first, but after a while, it fell short of your expectations. It failed to feed some of you and you wanted more. Some of you kept buying accordion after accordion in hopes of finding that missing something, but it wouldn't come. So you learned how to think deeper and you started experimenting to try and achieve that missing sound. Does this all sound familiar? It should. Because it has happened to every last one of us as we went forward with our accordion quest in ignorance! Now, the next time you go with your accordion to a builder or tuner, you now know more than you did a while ago. Good luck my friends. I'll see you on the circuit. I will be the guy everyone is staring at with their jaws hanging down to the floor as I play them an Iry Lejeune tune that they will never forget!

Greezy , you wrote that we don't have to thank you, but this was very interesting about Iry Lejeune.
Read it with pleasure

Mr. Greezy you may have outdone yourself on this, your potentially last post. And you include a final reference to your excellent accordion playing of Mr. Iry's work. I get the mirrors but when do I start making the smoke?

Ha, Mr Guy. "Smoke and Mirrors". I know about that somewhat, but this post has no smoke. It was not meant to obscure my thoughts or strain understanding. I distinctly remember one place that I played a few songs as a "stand in" accordion player for a local Cajun band. I played those songs on a 9 button wet tuned Martin "D" accordion, which was the "go to" accordion of that bands accordion player. That accordion player died tragically at a very young age. He was my friend. Had he lived, he and I could have done a lot with the Cajun music. The place was a bar and dance hall completely constructed of cypress and pine. No gat dam concrete or stucco! There was nothing soft in that place except for the clothes the people had on and maybe the voluptuous backsides of the few women that were there. There were corners and angles in the construction of that building that you just don't get in modern buildings. There was no low slung ceiling. We could look up and see the gabled rafters and the all wooden roof from the inside! The sound in that place was top notch for our instruments and the Cajun music. I can remember that it made me play so much better than I would normally play the accordion. I could really feel the music that day. Those 9 button accordions are known for their vibrant and light feel, especially the wet tuned ones. Combined with those old wooden dance hall floors, walls, and cathedral ceiling, it produced a sound that automatically made my then "novice" skills increase significantly and instantly. I could actually feel the sound and it made me play better and with much ease! And unfortunately, like so many other good things of the past, those old buildings have been torn down or destroyed in one way or another. Go ahead and try to go and purchase one cypress plank. You'll find that they want to charge you an arm and a leg for one freakin plank. Forget ever building a whole room, house, or barn out of the stuff. It's just not going to happen anymore unless lots of money is involved. And this echo vibration will not happen as often either as it naturally happened so often back in the day in those wooden homes and dance places of the old times. You could say that there's your "smoke" of all this. The things that used to be, but barely exist or not at all. Such as the existence of a puff of smoke.

Oh hey Meloderon, thanks to you brother for always being kind. I'm glad you enjoyed the topic. I hope all the things I've talked about help you to become a better musician. After all, they are the ponderings of a developing accordion player who was "self taught" for the most part. The masters I knew either didn't take the time to teach Cajun music in detail or they died before I could get most of the "guarded information" from them. They knew some good stuff, but I guarantee you this. Many or those Masters didn't know what we've come to learn and will learn on the Bravenet. Or did they?