What would have happened if . .
.
Elvis Presley had played
the accordion instead of the guitar?
Accordions were included
in marching bands?
More women than men
played the accordion?
People's first exposure
to the accordion had been a lullaby instead of a
polka?
All accordionists knew
and correctly performed the difference between pp and
ff?
Jimmy Stewart had
continued to play the accordion instead of becoming a famous
actor?
Accordions were
manufactured only in black and white?
All accordionists were
fluent music readers?
There was a chamber
group called accordion quartet (accordion plus violin, viola and
'cello)?
More accordionists
concentrated on musicianship instead of technique?
One could earn a college
degree at a conservatory in accordion performance?
Kurt Weill were as well
known as Johannes Brahms?
Accordionists didn't
wear ethnic or exotic clothes when performing?
Lawrence Welk had not
played the accordion?
There were more original
compositions for accordion than transcriptions and
arrangements?
Accordionists played as
many slow songs as they do fast ones?
All musicians could play
by ear as well as accordionists can?
Accordionists were in as
many jazz ensembles as are saxophonists?
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