Digital Accordian
 

I saw one today; specifically a Roland V-Accordian. I was at the Celtic Heritage Festival. Coolest thing ever... for... accordian players.

I've drooled over the Roland V-Drums for years. They use virtual sound modeling--much like if you wanted to test a new airplane design without actually building it, you'd get a computer to mock up the physics. For the V-Drums, you could say, give me a seven-ply birch shell, 10" by 10", with a coated head, close-mic'd with an AKG or whatever, in a large room with concrete walls, and it would "model" that sound and spit it out. Same for V-Guitar, which has MIDI pickup that converts your guitar to a manipulable signal that can be tuned differently or "model" different amps, or layered instruments. And now... the same can be achieved... for accordian players.

My god! Do you realize what this means?

You can finally play the monster "Lucky Man" solo on an accordian! Life is good!