Re: sheet music for accordion.

[John Chambers <jc...>]

| Can anybody help a friend who is looking for Klezmer sheet music for
| accordion.

Two mandatory books for  any  klez  accordion  player:   The  "Kammen
International  Dance Folio" volumes 1 and 9.  These were published in
the 30's by J.&J.  Kammen Music Co.  (263 Veterans Blvd, Carlstadt NJ
07072), and are still very much in print. Your local Jewish bookstore
likely has copies.  They  aren't  entirely  klezmer,  but  these  two
volumes have a lot of the standards.  Some are labelled as Russian or
Serbian or Hungarian tunes.  All are accordion  arrangements,  though
they are perfectly usable for other instruments, too.

An interesting sign of the growing popularity of klezmer music: These
two  books  are  part  of a much larger series of international dance
music, but the two volumes with a lot of Jewish and Eastern  European
tunes are the ones that are selling well. You can find just these two
volumes in a lot of ordinary music stores, especially  those  with  a
folk-music section.

One place on the net that you might check out:
   http://www.buttonbox.com/
This is the Button Box in Amherst, Massachusetts,  which  specializes
in accordions and concertinas.  They have a lot of books, including a
number of klezmer books.