Nick, I guess everyone has their favorites and for me it's the dual pitched Falcon's. Now, once I get the two that I am building put together, I won't be able to pull for Falcon's too much anymore !! They are very convenient, comfortable, and Rick is probably having the same problem that I am having with the clacking. Our doubles are 10+ years old with alot of playing, any accordion that has a lot of playing time of that age needs the leather under the valves to be changed. The leather gets packed down and hard over the years giving it a clackity sound. Rick is correct on the internal mic setup, VERY TIGHT, modulating in the middle of a song without having to swap out boxes - nice ! The reason I started playing was watching Wayne Toups at the 1991 Hot Air Balloon Festival in Baton Rouge and he was playing a brand new flashy red Falcon double - I had to have it ! I have a Mouton Bb which I wouldn't trade for the world but I like to play on the doubles - as they say, to each his own, foolish or not.

That's funny that it takes so much air, I'm still adjusting to playing my E/F, in comparison to my C/D, it takes a lot less air. F reeds are some of the smallest reeds there is and they don't take any air. Who knows ????

My free-end, mone amy,

to frame zeeze skwizboxes inn order to hang zem on ze wall of your cabin, you firt have to flatten zem wiz a hammer or a big stone. No, no ! don't be cruel !

Telesphore Boudreaux, Mare of Bayou Pon Pon

Oui Mare...

But aye preefir heetin mama's black arn skilleet til it glows red haut. Den I put de box in eet. She melts perrfect an' flat as de rice feelds in St. Landry. Ah mo' elegant solution to dee hammar.

Voila! Me hang eet necks to dee rest of em...



R!CK

Votre chu pu!!!

I'm very bright?

....ok

R!CK

You know those racks of posters you get in some stores? That picture is just the sort of colorful and quirky thing you'd find among them. Maybe selling the rights could bring in a few bob for Maison-Tit-Bayou?

The Falcon is a painful reminder to me that I recently drove thirty miles and back to check out a box that someone told me about. It was a one row with Cajun and Falcon written on it and was real cheap, but not too old. I knew all along it had to be Chinese, but you have to check these things out just in case it's the bargain of the century.

I came home older and wiser.

BJ