British Swing (Norbert Pignol)
Channel: Dan Rosen
Date: 2020-04-28

Okay, my first YouTube video of the accordion I call the #strugglebox. It's a Saltarelle Chaville, a chromatic button accordion I bought a few years ago now. While I've been shut in during this global pandemic, I've been spending my days trying to learn how to play it. My theory is that, if I want to play tunes in keys other than what my D/G melodeon can do, it's better to learn a standard chromatic system than to wrestle with the tradeoffs and peculiarities of the various G/C/Accidentals diato layouts. If I can sound half as good as my favorite diato players, I'll be very happy.

This tune is called "British Swing," written by French diatoniste Norbert Pignol. There's a great video of two of my diato heroes, Simone Bottasso (one of Pignol's students) and Remco Sietsema, playing it in a set together with the Ice House schottische: https://youtu.be/HIOPzFXynNc.