Hello from South Africa

Thank you for the offer.

You're welcome.

It also translates "гармонь", "баян" and "аккордеон" all as "accordion".

Technically speaking, it's correct. All of the above mentioned machines are "accordions", different from, for example, popular in your part of the World "concertina".

I do not know how bad the English to Russian translation is. I will just try to keep my English as simple as possible.

It's pretty good. Keeping it simple is a good idea.

Константин Иванин пишет:

Morne пишет: Можете ли вы объяснить, почему это плохо?

Morne, I could explain, but It'd take more words, than I'm ready to write .
Yes, I mean traditional culture: philosophy, methodics, spirit, history, mythology, etc.

Russian accordion-khromka is the best for playing Russian traditional music, or, precisely, some small part of it.
But when the people try to play khromka something like Bach, or rock’n’roll – it sounds too unnatural. For me, of course. Not for everybody . Classical accordion fits better for it, I think.

My opinion – if you learn khromka using the sheet music, it looks like you’d learn philosophy looking in the books, not in the life . Books can make you professional speaker, but only the life can make you wise.
Sheet music can make a good buttom-presser from you, not the player.

Everything’s IMHO.

I understand. I am an "outsider" so I do not see every traditional thing as a native Russian would. That is the first problem.

The second problem is that I want to get my hands on a garmon because I do not have one. But this can be solved and that is why I am here .

Я записал видео старого военной песни я узнал из книги Мирек.

Извините за низкого качества, я могу записать только с помощью моего ноутбука.

Good job for beginer. Why your image like in mirror?

Валерий Козлов пишет: Good job for beginer. Why your image like in mirror?

Sorry, I did not pay attention. I had a wrong setting on my webcam and it recorded like in a mirror. I will remember it next time.

Александр Морозов пишет:
К стате (это достаточно беспощадно для русского базового, а, Костя?), Игорь, пользуясь случаем хочу осведомиться, гармонь какого мастера изображена на Вашей новой аватарке? Нет ли записей, на которых можно услышать её звучание?

Да вот был на севере(Сметанинские встречи) и поиграл на такой чудо -гармони тамошних мастеров ;
Сказали что в виду отсутствия доступных по цене гармоней на рынке и в целях создания конкуренции китайцам ....настрогают и нарисуют сколько хочешь