4-Year-Old Prodigy Plays the Accordion

1. Frau
   January 24th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

   It is cute and kitchy because he was four. But the playing was okay.

2. GailW
   January 24th, 2009 at 6:03 pm

   Cute as heck!

3. zav
   January 24th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

   True prodigies avoid accordians.

4. erin
   January 25th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

   Look at him go! Accordians are so difficult, just because you're not only required to play the keys, but also push and pull the body, which can be quite heavy. And playing in front of such a huge crowd... Very impressive.

5. Frau
   January 25th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

   @ Erin - His accordion is a one row diatonic accordion. It appears to be maybe a Honer. And the most that accordion weighs is about 7 pounds.
   My piano accordion has 120 basses and weighs about 30 pounds.
   Moving the bellows is fairly easy. You just sort of let it fall away from you. As you play the basses the air escapes from the bellows, which makes it easy to "push back in".

   While I am no Alexander Shirunov and maybe it is because I know what kind of effort goes into playing, but I did not see his playing as anything that great.
   I'll give him credit for being four and playing a diatonic accordion on stage in front of many, but I'd give him more credit if it were a piano accordion. Even more if it were a chromatic.

6. sour60
   January 25th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

   way to stick it to a 4 year old Zav and Frau!

7. Frau
   January 25th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

   Thanks.
   "Oh how cute. He is "playing the accordion".
   There are true child prodigies and then there are children who are cute and can play so-so and are considered amazing because they are cute, up on stage being drowned out by a band, and performing in front of people.

8. sour60
   January 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

   you are very jealous of this kid, were you the 4-year old Salieri?

9. Frau
   January 26th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

   Er…no. Sorry. I am not jealous. If you have looked at my posts, I have said he is an okay player and give him credit for going up on a stage in front of many.

   You could put a four year old on stage with a hurdy gurdy and people will “ooh” and “ahh” because not many people have played or have seen one, and will think the child is amazing.

   My point I am trying to make is: I know what goes into playing. His playing, is that of a four year old. He is not a child prodigy. Being up on stage and being a cute four year old is a gimmick. I can hear the small mistakes, but the trick to playing in front of people when you make a mistake is to keep on playing and smile.
   An analogy if you will…You are a magician. You know the secret to cutting a citrus in half to expose a coin inside. When you see someone else performing it, you know the trick. To the observer of the trick they think it is amazing. You know what is involved. Therefore you can tell that the trick is not that great.

   I was explaining the weight and bellows operation to Erin - because she is the observer of the “magic trick” and believed it to be difficult, when it is not as difficult as it looks.
   There is a degree of difficulty of coordination.

   LULZ. arguing on the internet.

10. Scooter
    January 27th, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    I came here for the Accordion jokes. So I'm leaving disappointed.

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