{"id":1924,"date":"2008-10-05T21:11:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2008\/10\/my-parrot-piano\/"},"modified":"2008-10-05T21:11:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T21:11:48","slug":"my-parrot-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"My Parrot Piano Accordion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got it home now, and boy is it heavy: nearly 2 stone on its own, and nearly 3 stone in the box!<\/p>\n<p>My first tentative steps at playing are being guided by this page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accordionlinks.com\/play.html\">http:\/\/www.accordionlinks.com\/play.html<\/a>. It&#8217;s quite gratifying to bash out a recognisable version of Merrily We Roll Along and Oh When the Saints, with quite a depth of sound.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t see the bass buttons very well in this picture, but there are 120 of them in 6 rows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/photos-uncategorized-2008-10-05-accordion.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=474,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Accordion\" title=\"Accordion\" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/atc-images-2008-10-05-accordion.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got it home now, and boy is it heavy: nearly 2 stone on its own, and nearly 3 stone in the box! My first tentative steps at playing are being guided by this page: http:\/\/www.accordionlinks.com\/play.html. It&#8217;s quite gratifying to bash out a recognisable version of Merrily We Roll Along and Oh When the Saints, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}