What instrument is this?

Hi everyone.
We’ve discussed unusual instruments before. Does anyone know what the primary instrument in this video is? I haven’t seen it in most Irish recordings.
https://youtu.be/gekaBjpIuzA

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Thanks!

What video?

I just hear an accordion.

Thanks, Richard. I hadn’t realized it was an accordion. To me it sounded different to me than a button accordion or melodeon.
I may have been wrong in my use of the term “main instrument”, I just meant because it sounded like there was backing.

That last part should have said primary instrument

Sounds like an accordion patch on a synthesizer or keyboard to me.

Thanks, Michael. I had thought it might have been synthesized in some way.

There’s something about the playing style/phrasing that doesn’t sound like a button accordion. Rather like a piano accordion, a keyboard with an accordion-like sound, or even one of those tablet apps…

Well, Google when queried displays an image of Tina Jordan Rees at her electronic keyboard. Lord alone knows what knobs she´s twiddled.

sounds like the Clangers have finally taken up Irish music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqt_SH2xUCc

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It’s a Calathumper, played by a Calathumpian.

Maybe they’re running their accordion through effects pedals? A friend’s cousin played accordion in a ceili band in England and he said the pedal board she used was bigger than the one he had for his electric guitar!

The ornamentation gives it away as a button accordion, but from the tone, it’s clearly a midi accordion trying sound as unlike an accordion as possible – it sounds a bit like Northumbrian Smallpipes played via an accordion keyboard.

According to her website, she teaches piano, flute and tin whistle: no mention of accordions of any sort, Northumbrian pipes or any other conventional instrument. Sounds to me like a keyboard using one or more of those multiple “sound-tones” available: very synthetic sound! I agree with Michael Long above.
My Casio Privia keyboard can make noises like this, including the ornamentation and the backing, provided I twiddle my fingers and press the right switches!
https://tinajordanrees.com/teaching/

I think your answer is right here in her collection of videos on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVGb2mXYUA

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Just to be clear, in Michael Eskin’s video above, Tina is sitting at an electronic keyboard.

As I think Michael Long and I had already worked out! 😉

Thanks!
I had read on her Bandcamp also that she plays piano, flute and whistle, so that all makes sense.
It’s funny, because even though I really enjoy listening to Northumbrian smallpipes, I hadn’t thought of them as a possibility… but an electronic keyboard it is!

Electronics befuddles all!

Someone needs to get her a button accordion. With her obvious multi-instrumental talent, timing and rhythmic drive she would be fantastic!

If I hadn’t seen Michael Eskin’s video above, I would have guessed melodica!