Bryan, be careful where you plan to build your accordion ! You'd better let your parents know already that you're going to spend all your week-ends at their house soon

Christian

Hey, I didnt think of that, then I could call it "Louisiana made" and it would be better!

Exactly ! Unless you stay in Texas and then you will only build a melodeon (which is the word used in the title of the course by the way).

Christian

That was the word Larry Miller called his accordions also. I had never heard that term.

What my first one will end up may be none of the above, it may not even be recognizable, but I'll just keep trying until I get something playable. I got a very large stack of maple, right now anyway.

peace people, I said it would be a great learning experience, and no it will not be a cajun accordion. it might be a cajun-style, but not a cajun accordion. That is my opinion being born and raised in cajun country. I was cajun when cajun was a dirty word around here. now everyone wants to slap the cajun name tag on anything and everything. I will continue to defend my culture as need be. good luck with your projects.

isnt that what cajun's did??? slapped a cajun tag on a german accordion?....give it a rest dude..if La. was totally dependent on tourism and we had you as the state tourism president..we'd all still be plowing fields...

With this type of thinking you could reprint Shakespeare in Mamou, having imported the leather from Italy for the binding, and rename Macbeth, MacSavoy, Thane of Eunice.

Then you could claim Shakespeare as a Cajun playwrite.

It's the music that's Cajun not the accordion. And that's the heritage you should be proud of.