Your museum is on my list of places to travel to.

Great video! I like the history of the accordion that you present. I hope to visit your museum some day. Currently I have six different accordions. Andy

4:40 A Diatonic Soprano Accordion in C, quite a nice bright sound.

3:12 Plays Washington Post March by John Philip Sousa.

Wonderful! The extensive write up in the AAA newsletter sent me looking. I could listen to this all day! Great presentation!

3:54 The Gola Accordion is quite an interesting one which often has a Free Bass System added to it, & also an extended range Treble Keyboard so you can play even more notes. Luckilly Hohner now makes these things.

5:29 this is the sound you hear as you ascend into the heavens, most people think the harp but it's the flutter bellow. Where can I find the DVDs?

interesting instruments shown in action +++

2:35 The problem is that this Self Playing Accordion doesn't play the piece at straight time. As we're playing the instrument, the Piece of Music will go faster or slower depending on how the roll was cut, & when it was cut the Musician used more Dynamic which Expanded the spacing of the Holes, or Less & it Contracted the spacing, & that means that if we knew how he interpreted this piece, we could adapt the speeds to provide uniform dance beat, but since we don't it'll play at various speeds (Music playing).

Nice

2:35 The Musician should've had instructions on how to make the roll play in straight time.