sintrémolo (Octubre 2008)

sintrémolo
Accordion
Button
Highs
Bellows Lows
Get out!.
Chiqui!
Seize the opportunity of getting a hold of these big red eggs!
...All of the notes...
- There it goes... - Mhm, there...
But this sound would be the higher octave.
It has to be lower...
That'd be the octave, right?
Yes.
- Should I look for that one's octave? - Let's see, look it up...
... It's higher there...
Or should I look... Did you understand?
Eh, in the computer we have the tuning, the notes...
And then...
...we have the...
...I mean...
...he plays the note I need in the computer
so that it sounds so I can
tune it, just like the original, right?
Because I have to make it sound the same.
There it is, just like it.
See? The eighth of the first came out.
Where are they barking at? Outside?
Well, I play since I was a kid, I play the music, but...
Later, well...
Later when I grew up I left it aside a little...
...the music and...
Afterwards I started in the year...
...eh, '87.
That was when I wanted to have an accordion this big, like this one,
because I only had a "verdulerita"...
And when I wanted an accordion like this one it turned out that...
...eh, I couldn't buy it even...
...not even in my dreams. 'Cause it was too expensive, it was a lot of money....
So that's when I just went and built the accordion myself.
And... thank God, um... it turned out alright, and...
I'm still building them nowadays, so...
There.
I think that's OK more or less...
Now we're going to sandpaper it a bit to...
... polish it well...
It's all made by pulse.
All by hand.
It's ready there so...
...so it wont move, right?
There we have the little button.
Now...
Ready to install, now.
And so on you go...
...getting them ready and cutting them...
So...
When I started working...
...with accordions...
...I had several accordions I owned.
And I made them and took them apart
until, well, I would learn
because that was my... the only way for someone to learn is...
...with the things you own, right?
So I destroyed many accordions and I spared a lot of notes.
But, well, I was left with the wisdom that...
...I took out of each one
of those instruments, because
I made them a lot of times until I made them right.
That... Well, that instrument is a relic, 'cause they don't exist anymore.
If there's another one around, well... This "bandónica" was destroyed.
This one was...
...given to me by my brother.
Because he had bought it and...
...he wasn't...
...he wasn't going to use it, 'cause he didn't like it.
So then, um...
...he gave it to me and I went on putting it right a little and...
And today it's so-so, it's not completely repaired.
But... It's just for me, so...
If it's OK then that's it...
It's a fabulous instrument.
But...
...well...
I have to pass time only, because...
...I don't play the music.
Anywhere, so...
I play it only for me.
And when some guitarist friend comes by we play some "chamamecitos" as well...
Every once in a while.
What can you do...?
The life of the music lover...
And well, um... I learned the way I could.
Because there was nobody to teach or anything, so...
Well, I learned just...
... like...
...the way I could, right?
Until I learned a lot of things.
So...
... I do have the notes.
That's the only thing I can't build, the notes.
They are, I mean, the voices. These... The voices...
Because everything else I can build it all.
I make everything. I make the complete box, the springs, the wood...
...this, the bellows...
Even the... Even... these...
These little things, look...
These little plates it has here in the corner, they're called "esquineros"...
I build these as well...
This device...
...is a machine made to build "esquineros"...
...the plates that go on the corner of the bellows, the accordion's cardboard...
Well, with this... this is a press, and down here it has the matrix.
So you place the plate...
...and when you press here...
...it shapes it...
It shapes the plate.
How are you?
Well, this is a working table...
And this one I had to...
...I came up with it and built it, I had to make it, what can you do? Because...
...I had no choice, otherwise I you can't do your job.
So...
All of it is my idea...
And I still have to finish some things up, because...
...there are always things...
...that fall behind and...
But we'll... we'll have it finished soon.
That is, to test, right? Because you need that. This is a tester...
You have to test to see how good are the things you're doing.
If they're OK.
And well, I had... for instance, this...
...this cardboard is from an accordion that...
...I built it I don't know how many times and...
I already mentioned it...
I ended up destroying it...
...trying to see how it was built so many times...
And well, in the end I used the bellows to build this machine.
And then all the rest of it, well...
These are... they're... what do you call it?
Little irons that I had and...
And wood...
Oh, this engine...?
The little engine belongs to...
To a... what is it...? A Wincophone record player...
You can imagine... how old it is, because...
And it works very well...
Watch it go...
The Wincophone was working.
But I had to break because, what can you do? I needed the engine...
So now I have the records there and...
And I can't play them anywhere because they don't make those players anymore...
Now...
But, I least I got the little engine to do my works
which is very important...
...to me.
What can you do...
And, sometimes you have to sacrifice something...
Or haven't you ever sacrificed something sometime?
Well, sure...
What can you do...
And all the machines I build are...
...I believe they're unique, no one else out there builds them like that.
Because I takes a great amount of work...
To make an accordion you need...
Well, you need at least 4 months.
Which is a lot...
And you have to work hard.
Plus materials and all...
It costs a lot...
- It's pretty much there. - Yeah?
So, what are you gonna play?
You danced nicely...
You danced very, very nicely.