Hi Kombrig,

No need to apologize. Just keep your good sense of humor and we will be the very bet of friends for ever.

Naturally my suggestion of doing a 6/8 job on Beethoven or Wagner’s Ring was not to be taken seriously.

The English word “Swing” has many meanings. I have given you three musical definitions of the word. Other non-musical definitions would be the swinging of a pendulum or a “swinging couple”, having a different meaning again.

A “limp foot” rhythm is totally the opposite of what a jazz musician would understand of swinging in connection with a musical performance.

When I said: “I have however noticed that the left hand of your scores could often not be played by an ordinary piano accordion”, I meant just that. On a piano accordion, on the left hand buttons, in the row for C for instance, you start off with the note of e, followed with c and followed with the chord of c with the notes of that chord in the order of e, g, c. Your LH in your arrangements differs. My request to you was to explain the BAYAN you play, in reference to the LH side of the instrument.

Best wishes,

Herbert