Magic!

Two of my accordion heroes playing together! Fantastic. Many thanks. Terry.

Beautiful........... Jimmy Shand one of my heros.

Fabulous, thanks for uploading this lovely piece of musical history, I'm a huge Phil fan and Jimmy was a legend.

A Rare Hidden Gem! Makes me want to be at my Aunt Anna and Uncle Sandy's Young Farmer's, Barn Dances!

@bootes33 I got to meet Phil this year when he and Ali Bain played at our local folk venue, wonderful. Thanks again!

Great video, interesting to watch, lovely tune and a small piece of British history.

Hi Terry thanks very much for watching - and happy new year!

The type of accordion Jimmy Shand played is what's known as a British Chromatic Accordion. Basically, it's a 3-row melodeon in the keys of B, C & C# with a normal Stradella bass the type you normally see on piano accordions. Pretty hard to find now and fairly difficult to play as they have a different note on the in and out of the bellows and the air going in and out of them needs to be well regulated by an air bar on the back of the bass. Very rewarding to play once learned though!

@Therehasbeenan you mean Jimmy Shand? there are button accordions and piano accordions... I only learned on the piano accordion, so I can't tell you much about the other :) but I'm sure there are great websites out there from "button box" fans, i'd go from there!

@celticdollface made up you appreciate this - thanks - its for you and other fans I did this - and hopefully maybe some new people catching it by chance to welcome them to this musical world

How come he does not have keys?

Not to criticise you here but jimmy shand never actually wrote the bluebell polka, he was a great friend of my grans and he only made the tune famous

Jimmy Shand was not a Scot. He was English French Germanic