This time I invited my friend Balachander to play Piano-Accordion, an acoustic instrument which breathes like humans through the Bellows and produces ecstatic music, soothing to ears! This instrument was very popular in early 1930s up to 70s and was played in the erstwhile U S S R, Eastern Europe and the Scandinavian countries. Raj Kapoor, the legend of Hindi Tinsel world had a special place in his heart for this instrument and insisted inclusion of songs containing this instrument which was readily obliged by the great mastero Shankar Jaikishen who composed songs for many of his films. Pyar hua ikraar hua, Har dil jo pyar karega, jeena yahaan marna yahaan, jane kahaan gaye woh din, pyar ka nama hai are some of the popular songs which contained this instrument. Its very sad that there are no players willing to take up playing this instrument as this is replaced by the electronic Key-board. In chennai, there are a only a few left playing this instrument. I have a close friend in Delhi named Ganesh, an I I T graduate who used to play for me in my younger days. His right hand fingers appeared to flow all over the accordion while his left hand fingers pressed the matching chords to give a face lift to the entire music and a cushion to the singer's voice! Music world is poorer with this genius not choosing this line as he opted for a career in electronics in which he is doing extremely well. Piano-Accordion is a divine Western Instrument on is own!
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