Electrocord, Horizontal Accordion.

[@levinpugsley9256]

I can’t believe you just received this today and you play it as if you’ve had it for many years

[@KC9UDX]

Well if you can play an accordion

[@robertpeters199]

always great, very talented player, years ago the accordian was considered a one man band at weddings, etc. No electricity needed on the conventional accordians, always great at outdoor picnics, but this horizontal is cool too. can't beat that great sound.

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing ❤

[@BenElliottSound]

Amazing instrument! Thank you for sharing!

[@jefftaylor5884]

You are a master of anything that comes your way Rory! So grateful you have yet one more way of sharing your wonderful gift with the world! I hope this is the best of years for you and that more and more people become aware of you and your most unique abilities!

[@robertforrester578]

Good work.

[@joemaniscalco780]

Great video and demonstration. I wish I had one too!

[@Minimimismim]

You’re back!!

[@theworldsmostgiantDr]

I'm very glad the algorithm showed me this video. 😊 Very cool!

[@yakityyob]

Great video! I want one of these unique accordions!!!!!

[@experimentalfilm6221]

Woah made in Denver that's sick

[@bobburford]

Christmas greetings from South America. In case you ever wonder about it, I do miss spending time with you. I hope all is good in your world.

[@montycole5907]

I knew a guy in Northern California who built his own version of this, but he powered the air by pressing his knee sideways against a wooden lever. It was quite awkward but he seemed to like it. Your concert was highly entertaining as always. Thank you!

[@laurencefinston7036]

Mr. Bonvicini was right about the physical difficulties of playing the accordeon. I can only play seated and was surprised to learn from my accordeon dealer that that's the normal way to play. On TV, you always see people standing, but he said it was otherwise uncommon. Apart from not being able to manage it physically, I don't trust the little rings that hold the (very heavy) instrument to the leather straps. I don't want it to come crashing down at all and especially not on my feet. I think this was a good idea, but basically it's a harmonium with an electric motor (a very good idea), except for the Stradella bass. You don't mention whether this is a converter instrument (I would guess not). I think that would make it more useful, however, in any case, I'd really rather have two piano keyboards than bass buttons. I'd rather have that on my accordeons, too, and such instruments were made at one time, but the design didn't catch on. Unfortunately, it seems that you can have a converter or tremolo, but not both, which is why I have two accordeons. It sounds great, by the way.

[@jeffreygordon7194]

Lovely. Thank you.

[@Uncleharkinian]

Just found your channel Rory! This this is wicked! I have a Wilton chord organ in my collection, similar idea, but NOTHING LIKE THIS! Hope you had a good show!

[@KC9UDX]

It will always sound more like a shallow harmonium than an accordion. You don't have to phrase for bellows reversal. And you don't have the different dynamic of pulling versus pushing. But also, there is only one reed per note per register.

[@ShadowoftheDude]

Glad to see you again! 😊

[@mikejolls5948]

Hi Rory. I'm a legally blind guitarist and pianist, and I love your music. What talent you have! It looks like you can play just about any instrument you set your mind to. Good for you!! Wish I could do that but I'm not a pro like you and two instruments are enough for me!! I'm writing because I have a brother in-law who wants to play guitar. His vision is worse than mine. I learned to play guitar conventionally almost 60 years ago so I hold it that way when I'm playing. The neck is about 5 inches from my face. I have enough vision to see what I'm doing conventionally. My brother in-law, unfortunately, is VERY severely nearsighted .. even more than I. If he is going to put his finger on a fret, he has to pull the guitar about an inch from his face to see the fret. That's no way to play and that's just going to slow him down, if not make it next to impossible. I know you hold the guitar on its back on your lap and you approach the guitar from the top. I'm assuming you've played enough that you just play by feel and you know where the intervals are, etc .. and you've got that all worked out. I'm wondering if this approach might help him .. the "by feel" part I mean. I'm wondering if this method of yours is documented anywhere? If I was going to introduce this to him, I'd like to understand your system, the fingering, and so on. If it's not documented and it's your own, I'll bet you could make some money selling it for other interested visually impaired guitarists. Anyway, this would be a real new approach for me because as I said, I play the conventional way. He also likes the piano. On that instrument, I learned to play by feel and muscle memory, and I could probably show him how to do that. But for right now he wants to try the guitar, and that's why I'm writing. If you read this, I hope you can provide some advice. I'd certainly appreciate anything you could offer, but if you can't I I understand. I'm sure you're in demand and you probably don't have a lot of free time. Thanks for anything you can offer. Sincerely, Mike Jolls

[@laurencefinston7036]

Rory Hoffman may yet answer and I hope I'm not stepping on anybody's toes by posting the following. I thought you might like to have an answer and I do know something about the subject, so here's my two cents: Lap steel is one way of playing the guitar, particularly in country music. Often, a resonator guitar is used for this. This instrument is often called a dobro, although that's a brand name. There are special guitars with thick necks that can only be played this way and also electric lap steel guitars. The "steel" is a metal bar that you use for "fretting" the strings. It's like a slide, except that since you're playing the guitar horizontally, you don't need to have a finger stuck through it. You can put any guitar on your lap and play it this way, although it doesn't work particularly well with nylon strings. I sometimes play slide on nylon strings, but I wouldn't use a steel on my classical (nylon-string) guitar. Since the steel normally only "frets" the strings in one position (there are a couple of exceptions, which I won't go into here), one is limited in the chords one can play and open tunings are often used. There are definitely books around about lap-steel. I don't own any, but Mel Bay publications would be a good place to look for a start. A pedal-steel guitar operates on a similar principle, but is more complicated. It has a variable number of pedals and knee levers, which are used to change the pitch of one or more strings. Sometimes they have two "fretboards" with 10 strings each. I have one with one "fretboard" of 10 strings, 3 pedals and 4 knee levers. (If I'd gotten one with two fretboards, I could use it to fold laundry.) You can get more pedals, but I'm not sure about knee levers. It seems to me that 4 would be the maximum, but maybe there's some way to add more. Pedal-steels are only electric. I personally think that it would make more sense to play in the conventional way and have a luthier install something along the neck that could be felt but not interfere with playing, so that the player could find the positions of the frets by feel. I don't think it would be any problem to have this done. I don't have vision problems, but I most often play without looking at my hands. I understand that one has to get to that point, but I think it should be possible for your brother-in-law without a great deal of difficulty. I wish you both the best of luck and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

[@jonmustang]

So cool! Nice to see a new video and a new instrument

[@funknode]

Awesome video!

[@dw4270]

Very cool thanks for sharing

[@seanperrydj]

You got the coolest stuff !!

[@russellking3718]

Cool beans

[@joostderidder]

cool vid and information. But for YT you'd better hold your cam horizontally

[@bubby632]

Cool beans