Accordion Minidisk Player !

Take a look at this. It's an accordion right ?

Almost.

Have your own Octoberfest! You can convince them all that you are a musical wizard. This is a real button accordion built by Hessmuller of Morgenroethe Saxony (Germany), but instead of the usual reed sets it uses mini discs playing professionally sampled accordion solos of traditional polkas, marches, waltzes, tangos etc. played by real German accordion players. Now you can play instantly ! Have you own Octoberfest accordion player with a repertoire of 122 songs. Instrument plays in stereo with the treble side and bass side playing just as it would with a traditional accordion. Has its own self contained hidden mini disk player, amplifier, twin speakers, volume control and even a jack so that the instrument can be hooked up to any amplifier and played realistically on stage. All the player has to do is move the bellows and play the buttons (keys are all functional) convincingly and people will marvel at your skills. Five interchangeable mini discs can play 122 Bavarian - German songs such as Wien Bleibt Wien (Vienna Forever), Rosamunde (Beer Barrel Polka), Trumpeten Echo, Fischerin Vom Bodensee, Tiroler Holzhackerbuam (Jolly Lumberjack), Edelweiss, Tief Drin Im Boehmerwald, Radetzky Marsch, La Paloma Tango, Schoen Ist Die Liebe Im Hafen, Patrona Baveriae.

Now this could be considered quite sneaky, cheating almost, but I quite like the idea. I wonder if this is a good way of rejuvenating all those old accordions that are practically worthless because it would cost too much to recondition them. Just think you could have an Irish one, and a Mexican one, and a French one and so on and so on. What do you all think ?

Oh, by the way, the one above costs US $1,595.00 which is clearly ridiculous.

Comments

[Chris]

That could be cool -- you could also probably replace the mini disc player with an iPod-like device and then you wouldn't even need to bother switching discs. I'm still wondering how it sounds, though. Guess it depends greatly on the quality of the recordings they include.

[Squeezyboy]

Yeah, an MP3 player would be good.

I notice that it's a stereo device, which makes me wonder if they've gone to the bother of putting the bass buttons on one channel and the solo buttons on the other channel. This might make it sound realistic if they have done that.

[mister anchovy]

There is something very twisted about this. For the same price, you could get a real Strasser, and take the time to learn to play!.....even that first little waltz would be more satisfying than the mini-disc player.....

[Sutet Nerrah]

I Live in the Bay area on the Oakland side near world famous jack london square. The people would love to hear famous accordian music down on the pier. I was looking for an accordian I could carry with me as I was walking along the pier and every now and then stop to play a wonderful accordian tune to a couple in the grasp of love while they were on vacation, overlooking the moonlight of the Bay near Sanfrancisco. This unit would be wonderful. I know it would go over big because accordian muscic makes anyplace more classical. What do you think about what I said.

[Squeezyboy]

Sutet,

Do it !

And let us know how you get on.

Good luck
Ivan

[Slavko]

I would much appreciate if anybody could provide a link to Hessmuller. I am desperately trying to find it but with no success.
Thank you in advance

[Squeezyboy]

I could only find this, seems to be a shop in the Netherlands that has them. I think it's the 5th one down on the link below.

http://www.accordeonplaza.nl/hessmuhler_harmonica.htm