About the Valve Part of the Accordion

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Paul Becker and I'm here to talk to you about accordions today on behalf of Expert Village. In this section we will talk about the valves machine of the accordion. Now, as you can see in this accordion the sounds or pitches are controlled by a keyboard sort of like a piano accordion like a piano and there are other kinds that we would show you those later. So you know we basically push the keys down and they raise these valves up and we would show you on the other side that basically decides or determines where the air goes in the reed block to determine which notes are played. So on the other side we see that there is a reed block we looked at these earlier and you can see the same holes again that we are controlling from the piano keyboard opening and closing those holes which go inside with the holes on the bottom of a reed box and they determine which sound is made. So. (playing the accordion)"