Re: Recording an accordion

... both sides, especially the right hand, are
moving a lot. You don't want an obvious doppler effect on sustained
notes.

The keyboard tends to stay relatively still (in relation to the player),
most of the bellows work is done with the accompaniment (button) side.>>

Yup, obviously a typo. I was visualizing the left or bellows hand but
typed 'right'.

The problem isn't likely to be the Dopler Effect unless the player is
moving the bellows at somewhere near the speed of sound. >>

Uh, no, it doesn't have to be quite that fast. Walk briskly away from
a piano as it's being played & you will hear a very pronounced doppler
shift.

<< You may get
slight phasiness if there is a reflecting surface nearby.>>

In recording lots of accordions over lots of years I've found the
movement of the bellows to in fact be an issue with respect to an
improperly placed microphone.

Scott Fraser

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