Perry Werner Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 (edited) Howdy: Just saw this lovely item and great description on Craigs List. There's even a picture of the receipt!!!!!!!!! And in case you're not sure where to find this, you might try "mariachi" as one of the keywords. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/msg/750749707.html Have fun, Perry Werner Edited July 21, 2008 by Perry Werner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeeclipper Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Apparently "weird instruments" works, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomylly Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I hate to disabuse the seller of his lofty ideas, but as the mother of a 3-year-old who is obsessed with Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, I must tell him that that is not a pirate accordion, it's a dwarf accordion! Er, in more ways than one! Trivia question (and no looking it up on YouTube allowed!): Which dwarf plays the concertina? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Tedrow Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I hate to disabuse the seller of his lofty ideas, but as the mother of a 3-year-old who is obsessed with Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, I must tell him that that is not a pirate accordion, it's a dwarf accordion! Er, in more ways than one! Trivia question (and no looking it up on YouTube allowed!): Which dwarf plays the concertina? Bashful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wntrmute Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Where was the Holy Grail supposedly taken in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Python Trivia for 800, Alex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomylly Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Bob is the winner! It is, indeed, Bashful. According to God (as depicted in Holy Grail), He misplaced the Grail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 My curiosity piqued by this phrase "The Pirate Accordion" being used to describe the concertina, I thought I'd Google the term and came up with the following from the accordion-wiki, under the heading Famous accordionists: Mary Faber, occasional pirate/cross-dresser from the Bloody Jack (novel) by Louis A. Meyer, plays concertina, even though historically they hadn't been invented yet. An example of the "Pirate Accordion Anachronism" that has been perpetuated in popular culture and imagery since at least Rudyard Kipling's 1897 Captains Courageous, (set in 1751). Kipling squeezes in an accordion eighty years before it was invented. Disney's Pirates of the Carribean's theme-park ride had a pirate playing a concertina, and the film repeated this, again putting post-industrial age accordions back into the hands of sixteenth century sea-farers. However it doesn't really explain anything, seeing that Captains Courageous isn't set in 1751 and isn't about pirates, whilst Kipling clearly describes the instrument as "a gaudy, gilt-stopped accordion". So what does it go back to I wonder (and how could somebody be so wrong about Captains Courageous)? Mind you, in Chapter 4 that book does provide an illustration of 1890s sailors making music at sea on melodeon, fiddle and "nachette" (correct name machete, it became the ukulele after it was introduced to Hawaii by immigrants from Madeira in 1878), but no sign of a concertina... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddlehead Fern Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Oh yes, the Bloody Jack series! I've read and enjoyed them. Well, yes, they are rather far fetched and not very historically accurate, but fun just the same. (Quick reads too, like potato chips for the mind, yum!) :] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooves Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I have heard there are modern day pirates, not the swashbuckling golden-toothed variety, but pirates nonetheless. Perhaps some of them have taken to the concertina, the thieving bilge belching scoundrels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3838 Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 (edited) I have heard there are modern day pirates, not the swashbuckling golden-toothed variety, but pirates nonetheless. Perhaps some of them have taken to the concertina, the thieving bilge belching scoundrels! http://www.marinelink.com/Story/TopCat+Mar...tes-201146.html And some snippett: Earlier this month, Somali pirates kidnapped 50 Yemeni fishermen, and on Nov. 5, pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades at a 440-foot luxury cruise liner. No one on the liner was hurt, and the ship sped off before pirates could board. Edited July 22, 2008 by m3838 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I have heard there are modern day pirates, not the swashbuckling golden-toothed variety, but pirates nonetheless. Perhaps some of them have taken to the concertina, the thieving bilge belching scoundrels! More likely they've taken the concertina... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccordionNoirRadio Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 It's fun to see my meagre contributions to Wikipedia quoted, but embarrassing to see my mistakes pointed out. I believe that whole section has been removed from the original Wikipedia page. (I added it to a list of trivia.) I spent a long time trying to figure out when Captains Courageous was set. Somewhere I swear I found the date 1751. As I look at it now, it can't be right, but that's where the error came from. The "pirate" connection is that I was looking through classic nautical literature for the roots of the whole pirate accordion thing. My assumption is that Victorian writers who started the myths of the golden age of piracy (well after it was over) looked to their modern sailors and added the common accordion or concertina into the past they were creating. If Kipling had done that it would have been a great example. Alas, I'm still searching for that first mysterious Pirate musician. Thank you for pointing that out, saves me the embarrassment of continuing that error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbones Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 That be no pirate accordian! This here be a pirate accordian!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglo-Irishman Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Earlier this month, Somali pirates kidnapped 50 Yemeni fishermen, and on Nov. 5, pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades at a 440-foot luxury cruise liner.No one on the liner was hurt, and the ship sped off before pirates could board. Just imagine a boatload of Somali pirates boarding a freighter bringing a load of cheap Chinese concertinas to Europe, and kicking off a whole new genre of East African trad. music with the booty! Perhaps some pirate captains would advocate along-the-row playing, others cross-row, and there'd be a big showdown from which neither party would recover. Thus the concertina could lead to the demise of modern piracy!! Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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