Well folks, here we go with the next topic that has to do with getting the best possible accordion for you. I'll just start by listing the different types of Cajun diatonic 10 button accordion tunings I've heard about.

Standard Cajun Tuning
Straight Tuning
Just Tuning
Tempered Tuning
Tempered 3rd & 5ths Tuning
Equal Temperment Tuning
Just Tempered Tuning
Just Dry Tuning
Just Wet Tuning
Tempered Dry Tuning
Tempered Wet Tuning

Now, No Doubt, some of the above tunings will be eliminated because some of them mean the same thing. Some of them were just pet names given to certain types of tuning over time by different people. Hopefully, we can narrow it down so that you the accordion player can have a visit with your accordion maker and tell them straight up exactly the type of tuning you're looking for! Or, you will be able to tell the accordion maker the type of tuning and have them explain that tuning and the way it sounds or show you an example of it so that you the accordion player can make the best possible choice! No more of this leaving it up to the accordion maker to make the best choice for you because they have the information and you don't. Those days are over, obsolete, and in my opinion, idiotic.

I would like to start out by calling out a couple of people who used to come to the Cajun accordion Discussion Group. Rusty Sanner of Heritage accordions and Craig Vincent of Vincent accordions, and possibly even,
Bryan Lafleur would come back to help us out??.. Is it possible that you guys can help to cut down that list of tuning options in my last comment to just two or three? How can you best explain it, so that the novice, average, professional Cajun accordion player can understand what tuning to ask for when they either bring in an accordion for repairs or are looking to build a brand new accordion?

Ok folks.....here we go.
Based on my experience with accordions, accordion makers, accordion tuning, and accordion player awareness and skill, you basically have 3 types of Cajun Accordions:

1. The student model accordion: stunts your learning and playing progress and permanently ruins your muscle memory skills. It perplexes your mind and causes you to judge your own choice making skills, discourages playing, and immediately or gradually makes you feel regret for having bought said accordion and finally, it causes you to want to sell it and look for another or "TRY" to have a better one built. AKA, A Dud, A Lemon, a Hohner Ariette.

2. The mediocre accordion: it inspires you because it has a Cajun or Italian Brand Name, it's playability, sound, and overall looks are pleasing enough to inspire you to play better, but over all, it is an NS Special. (A Nothing Special Special). It is the kind of Cajun Accordion that makes you save up some money so's that you can go to one of the BIG 3 Cajun Accordion Makers and attempt or hope that you can have a better one built.

3. The Accordion that practically plays by itself, while you're just holding it. The Accordion that you would never sell, the one that you show to everyone, but seldom or reluctantly:grimacing: let anyone else play on. The accordion that you leave in your Death Will to the most special person in your life that you think deserves it. The accordion that causes other players to go to the Big 3 Accordion Makers or whatever obscure builder built that accordion and ask all kinds of questions trying to replicate this perfect accordion that they heard being played or maybe were given the chance to play on just once for a few minutes. The kind of accordion that makes Accordion Builders think that you are a "DIFFICULT CUSTOMER" because you keep asking them too many dam questions about their craft that you have no business asking.