Last night, we were with Derek's family. Various musical instruments tend to find their way out to the living room at these gatherings... here's Derek experimenting with his grandfather's accordion.
Then, Grandma dug up a picture from 1984:
From left to right: On guitar, Aunt Jean (Grandma Darlene's sister); on accordion, Lawrence Alff (Derek's grandfather/Grandpa Wendell's dad); on banjo, George Alff (Derek's great uncle/Lawrence's brother); and on piano, Doris Bell (Grandma Darlene's mother).
We decided to re-create that photo in the same location with the same folding chairs and related band-members:
From left to right: on guitar, the very same Aunt Jean; on accordion, Derek; on banjo, Derek's sister Jana; and on piano, Grandma Darlene.
Grandma had the presence of mind to take a making-of pic - here's me taking the re-staged picture, with expert Lighting Designer/Key Grip Grandpa doing his job in the background.
Good times!! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for hosting an evening of family fun!
2 comments:
How special is that! I love the pictures of past and present and would love to get a closer look at that wonderful old accordion!
You know, I looked into it and found out it's technically a melodeon or diatonic button accordion (DBA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_button_accordion.
Fascinating!
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