New Arrival

My father bought an accordion. It looked like it popped straight out of a fairy tale into my living room. It is red, shiny, and very large. It came in a large luggage-type box, lined with red velvet.

It is a Parrot 48-base, 2 Voice accordion, exactly like the one in the picture below, and in excellent condition too. It is selling for US$355 at amazon.com; my father bought it for S$40 at Salvation Army at 50% off the selling price. He was as excited about his purchase as a teenager about a new base guitar.



Admittedly, it is very cool. Things we found out yesterday while playing around -- the indented button on the left is the C chord. The button below that is F. Apparently the button above C is G, so you have the four major chords right next to each other. (see layout of buttons here). The black and white levers above the keyboard changes the octave of the notes.