accordion players note

check out Douggie Briggs’ new site

briggsaccordions.com

Thanks MYBC - those are lovely looking machines - any idea where I can find a clip or audio of one being played?

I think the box player in Lunasa uses a Briggs box but whether it’s the model shown on the website I don’t know

box player in lunasa??? Lunasa dont have a box player unless im greatly mistaken!!

Man! I’ve seen musical instrument PORN before, but this is XXX. Don’t look!!

“This section shows the stainless steel shoulder strap brackets and unique telescopic bellow straps, designed and made by myself in my workshop in Manchester. ” Phoar!!

Plus, I want to be buried in one of those cases.

All I can see is the Celtic mermaid disposed across it.

Now you’ll all see her…

Wow, very very impressive!

Dervish maybe

Pretty…very pretty

But MBC- did a rich uncle pass and leave you a ton of money?

In the US those are very pricey.

with the £uk in the state it’s in, Briggs’s boxes are getting competitive here with high grade Italian imports and I’d hazard a guess that they’re far better than most

Even a workhorse Salterelle Nuage (french branded but Italian built) is now around £uk2,500

The specifications and ‘visuals’ of the Briggs are very impressive. Herself would kill me if I brought another box into the house. I pick up alot of whistles also since the quality and tone there are so variable. We were in Galway, and I found a nice feadog- three or four euro maybe…not terribly expensive. She just rolled her eyes.

I talked a bit about a new Martin guitar as my next investment, and Herself reminded me how hard she has worked to get the Darlings through college and hoped I could spend some money on projects in the house and travel that she would personally benefit from.

Eeeeergh…

if your personal finances aren’t transparent then one way to go is to get a new (cheap) distinctive accordion case.

Use this case every time you take a box out of the house

get your Briggs box delivered to your workplace and smuggle it into the house in your now familiar case.

Most Herselfs are too lazy to do baggage searches and too inattentive to notice which box you’re playing