From den121961@yahoo.com Thu Mar 24 20:39:17 2011
Subject:Re: Rock Accordion was Al Kooper (was: Joey D talking KeyB)

I sometimes fill in with a polka duo on trumpet, and the accordion guy just got one of these rolands. It is the VK8 engine, but I thought the organ sounds were a bit weak on it (and I have messed with VK8's) so I have a feeling it's not totally the same. He claims the electronic sensor is real tough to do bellow shakes on, but it's still new for him.
Soundwise, it's typical roland, kind of like a squeezable fantom to my ear. When he bought it, I went down with him to pick it up, the guy said the guy that owns roland is a big accordian nut, and set up a factory in italy just for this instrument. I think the thing was like 7 grand.