My dear Bravenets,
In the salpa discussion, Glenn wrote "I am interested to know whether anyone can tell what brand box is being played just by ear ?"

So I was wondering if anyone could tell me wich accordion Octa Clark played on the record where he was accompanied by Steve Riley on guitar and voice (and a fiddle)title: "you can't go wrong if you play it right", if I am well informed.
I would go for either Bon Tee (sound) or Acadian (Bass side taken into account, but I miss something in the sound to vote for Acadian).
Or did he change accordions ?

Who can hear it / just knows it?

Gus

I get surprised all the time...I can pick out Falcon's easier than any other accordion...the others I find, are much more similar than different. I am not even going to try. I heard a recording of his early this morning on KRVS...the accordion sound was real dull...didn't sound like all the other recordings I had heard of him. Anyone else hear that this morning?

Seems like a very tricky thing to identify an accordion from a recording, since room acoustics, the microphone used, and equalization are all going to affect the way an accordion sounds.
S'b'B

It is usually easy to pick Marc's accordions out, cause they have that really dry "tooty" tone, sort of the Stratocaster quack. I love that tone...

Octa used to play a Crown brand which I think was made by John E Hebert. That is most likely what he used to record too. Marc Savoy thought he used an F accordion on the older record by Arhoolie.

Hey Cory,

You're a great accordion player, mon ami and I've been looking out for new cd's from you and the aces. Any plans for it soon.

I've about worn out "Play that thing, yeah Jack". So I'm looking forward to some new stuff from you.

Bon Chance
Nelson Trahan

thanks for the information, Cory

Gus