Just a heads up! There is a ACADIAN Cajun accordion in the key of C listed on eBay. Looks a little beat up but starting bid is $925.00
By the way, I purchased a Gabbanelli Cajun King D box today for $795.00. I play Irish style melodeon, so the "straight" tuning will be fine.
Actually I think the falcon on ebay is probably Glenn Alessi's
accordion. Since the seller is in Parma italy..where Glenn
lives. I bought my triple row baffetti from Glenn and am
happy with it. So I wouldn't hesitate to consider it. Mark
I noticed a subject you were discussing a few days ago and I didn't get in on the thread...barging in here.
If I don't use the Piano note accordion for Lucille I play it in the F position on the C. The bridge is perfectly "doable" in that position. There are some double notes that I can't get in the F position like C-A and C-F (because C's are all push and F&A are pull notes)...they are easy on the piano note keyboard...but still, if you have to do Lucille on a single row, F is the way to go.
Of course a lot of guys here do it in G a la Belton Richard...but he doesn't do that bridge part you are talking about.
I am still sorry we never got a chance to meet and talk at Isleton a couple years back.
After I posted my question about Lucille on the single row, I went home and tried it, and I was able to get most of it working OK. Like you say, I used the third position (in my case Eb on a Bb box). I ran out of time before I was able to try the bridge, and I want to try that again. When I play the bridge on the triple row, it relies a great deal on going across the rows, and it still seems to me that something would be lost, but maybe not.
You just have to push and pull more...all the notes are there on the single row. I know how to do it on a triple row and that lick is mostly all on the pull...on the single row you play 5' 6' 6-7 6-7 6-7 6' 5' 6-7 etc. Of course it is choppier sounding on a single row with those bellow reversals so it is not like crossing the rows all on the pull. But I pull my wet stop up and stop the treble reeds and use the internal mic...you would be surprised at how close you can get it to sound like a triple row...you just have to work harder with the bellows.
Yes.. that is my Falcon on eBay.. and I listed it here below on a posting mentioning listing some of my boxes...
it is a mint condition/ never played / new / Falcon. I have two C boxes and have to part with one. Will probably commission another in a different key.
This is the real deal and I back anything I sell, no BS.. happy to take returns if not as described.
Glenn : ) ( I have nearly 300 positive feedbacks )
I didn't know the seller had a lot of positive feedback. What I meant, was that I wouldn't buy a high-dollar instrument from Ebay, particularly a Falcon, which I would prefer to order myself from the builder.
However, don't let that stand in the way...if ya want it, git it.