{"id":1109,"date":"2015-04-09T21:51:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T04:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2015-04-09T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T04:51:47","slug":"piano-accordion-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/piano-accordion-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano accordion book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2015-04-09-piano-accordion-book-opened\"<\/a>At the beginning of the year I completed a small edition of the piano accordion book shown here for a book exchange. The accordion text which fits into the button box tells the story of how our son became interested in learning the accordion after a Suzuki Institute week in New Orleans, and how I eventually began playing the accordion with him. The accordion text\u00a0in the box beneath the piano keys is a “Just So” story which explains how the politically incorrect\u00a0lyrics\u00a0to a popular 1940s accordion song came to be replaced with lyrics about healthy eating for a children’s piano accordion primer.<\/p>\n

\"2015-04-09-piano-accordion-book-unstrapped\"<\/a>The bellows alternates these two sets of lyrics.<\/p>\n

The project was as much a graphic design\u00a0puzzle\u00a0as a calligraphy and bookbinding endeavor. I drew, painted, and lettered various parts of the book, scanned\u00a0them into Photoshop, pasted it up in InDesign, and printed the parts on an Epson WorkForce 1100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of the year I completed a small edition of the piano accordion book shown here for a book exchange. The accordion text which fits into the button box tells the story of how our son became interested in learning the accordion after a Suzuki Institute week in New Orleans, and how I … <\/p>\n

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