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Roland made it possible for me to learn to play button accordion. My landlord runs a psychology practice upstairs, and my wife is not fond of loud noises, so I

• agumonkey 10y ago
  Their V-Drums were also probably best in class.
• robotmay 10y ago
  I knew I couldn't be the only techie who took up button accordions (though diatonics in my case). Luckily my flat is very soundproof, so I can get away with it, however I do know of a guy who is one of the main people restoring the English bagpiping tradition who had a similar problem. Rather than getting digital pipes, however, he filled his wardrobe with bedding/duvets/pillows and would practice them by sitting there with the pipes stuck into a wardrobe. Roland do actually make a diatonic model of their accordion, and it's pretty popular, however it doesn't work quite as well as the chromatic models due to the eccentricites of that particular instrument. Edit: Ah ha, as I thought the FR-18 diatonic was in fact discontinued. It's a shame, as it does actually have quite a few fans, but the market is much smaller than for the chromatic models: https://www.roland.com/us/products/fr-18_diatonic/ https://www.roland.com/us/products/fr-18_diatonic/