Squeezebox finally

[vivdunstan]

This is rough, but on day 9 of Covid I am overjoyed to have managed to get the box out today. This is my wee French chromatic button accordion (the one in this post's icon picture), with a warm swing sound. Also very relieved yet again that I didn't get the extreme musette tuning I initially fancied 😉 I am only practicing intermittently but amazed how quickly I am getting on with this totally different system I've been learning since June (no piano keyboard, unlike the type of accordion I have played since the mid 1970s). This tune was played reading from sheet music. I wanted to play the wee box earlier in the week but was way too achy and then temperature still bonkers for days. But managed a half hour or so's play tonight. So chuffed. A quick recording of me playing Sunrise Sunset is on my website. Full of fluffs, but honestly I'm just delighted. Also staggered how I'm retaining the new skills I'm learning given how spread out my practices are. This is the new accordion that seems to be helping me recover lost neurological right hand control. Win win.