Re: sheet music for accordion.

[Sherry Mayrent <oyfpro...>]

At 10:29 PM 1/7/99 -0500, Aaron Bousel wrote:

>Some of the chords I've encountered in the Kammen books seem questionable
to me,
>as if someone extrapolated the chords from the melody in a very literal
>sense that would get you good marks in a music theory class but has little
>to do with the way the music is played.  My guess is that the person who
>arranged them for accordion knew more about accordion playing than he did
>about klezmer.

Aaron, you're absolutely right about the chords being quite suspect.  To
add to that, the melodies are often not correct either in the Kammen books.


-- Sherry