It had been on display in a railroad museum, but the accordion bellows had deteriorated. He got it for a good price, about $3,000. “I didn’t know such a thing existed until I found the one I o ...

“When you’re playing the accordion you are your own band,” Burkman said. “This is actually kind of fun, and pretty cool.” Now, working the bellows, he’s a hit at parties, family ...

The accordion has 120 buttons ... and even added a barometric pressure sensor that allows him to use the bellows for expression and volume changes. Although we’ve seen elaborate MIDI builds ...

A Melodeon is a chromatic accordion and there are people who already ... to detect the squeezing and pulling of the instrument’s bellows. His did some solid work. The video above uses 8-bit ...