ACCORDIONS ARE AWESOME

And here's just a FEW reasons why.

• COOL PEOPLE PLAY THEM.
• Weird Al Yankovic (of Weird Al)
• Neil Cicierega (of Lemon Demon)
• John Linnell (of They Might Be Giants)
• Martin Molin (of Wintergatan)
• Krist Novoselic (of Nirvana)
• ME! (me)


• THEY'RE THE MOST STEAMPUNK INSTRUMENT.
• Rows of exciting, mysteriously unlabeled buttons/switches!
• Attached to your body with leather straps
• Full of metal levers and valves
• Powered by pumping bellows
• Impractically heavy
• SHINY


• THEY'RE UNIQUE !
• Unless you have some really cool friends, then you'll be the only person you know who plays one!


• INCREDIBLY VERSATILE.
• All the crunchy, textural chord power of a guitar with the music-theory ease of a keyboard.
• Dynamic volume control, baby.
• Play bass and treble lines at the same time!
• Use register switches to completely change the instrument's sound!
• Carry the sound of a pipe organ in a mobile squeezebox!
• AND you can sing along while playing! Really, what more do you want out of an instrument?


• NOBODY WILL STEAL IT.
• They're clunky, conspicuous, and unwanted by the general population.
• (Okay, they sometimes get stolen, but it's pretty easy to spot a thief.)