Hope you now feel better Chad. Are you perhaps playing a little too hard? Remember your accordion is not an air compressor. Take it easy. It will be better for you and the accordion.

Weird...I had a similar experience...even tried to go see
my doctor...because I was having chest pain...he didn't
have an appt. so he told me to go to the emergency room..
(medicine in america) they checked me out..did an ekg, everything was fine...elevated blood pressure...probably because I was freaking out.

Similar thing strained muscle...still feel it
off and on. Not sure if I started playing differently or if
its a combination of playing the accordion and starting to play the fiddle...(you have to be a contortionist to play the fiddle)

Anyway...it was weird to see your post. Hope you are feeling better. Mark

its not my girlfriend but sure wish it was..yea billy.. i think it is the key of double D lol

Mark...its kind of reassuring that another accordion player had this happen too.. makes me believe more that it was the accordion that caused it and not the 20 days of beer,oysters, hot wings and fast food in panama city beach lol.....i'm just gonna be sure to do some kind of stretching before playing..