OLD UPDATE HISTORY

• November 9, 1997
• Added a section about how different reed arrangements sound like, using a manipulated sample from my Zero-Sette accordion.
• Oktober 16, 1997
• Added a link to The Classical Free-Reed page to the links page.
• August 24, 1997
• Lpage have messed up the guestbook server again and I had to revert to the standard sign-in form. If you've had problems with signing my guestbook, please try again: Sign My Guestbook
• July 27, 1997
• Added a lot of pictures and sound files from the Ransäter Accordion Festival in 1996.
• July 1, 1997
• New composition to celebrate my newborn son was added to the page with my own compositions. Andreas was born on the 22nd of June.
• Added "Kathy's Polka" as an example of a polka in the Polka composition contest. I hope you like it, Kathy! (Kathy Fors, Portland, Oregon).
• June 25, 1997
• Started a new composition contest. Polkas this time and sound files instead of notation. Enter the Polka composition contest!
• June 8, 1997
• Added some more accordion jokes.
• June 1, 1997
• New picture of Skäggetorpsgårdens Dragspelsklubb, the first Swedish accordion club on Internet.
• May 31, 1997
• More accordion festivals in Sweden 1997.
• May 14, 1997
• Please send me your best pictures!
• May 10, 1997
• Added a new composition, "Lambo-Hambo". Listen and download the notation!
• I've been in contact with the Zero-Sette factory in Italy. They are working on a web page but until this is available, they may be contacted by email.
• May 5, 1997
• Added The Squeezebox Chat Page for on-line conversation with your squeezin' friends!
• May 2, 1997
• Added the notation for the waltz "Dragspelsvår" to the page with my own compositions.
• Added more stuff to the accordion jokes page.
• April 19, 1997
• More than a month since I did any major updates since I've been busy moving to another flat. I did however compose a new waltz, 'Accordion Spring'. Sound files for this tune (now also RealAudio 3.0) and for some of my other tunes are available at the page with my own composistions.
• March 8, 1997
• Updated the links page.
• March 7, 1997
• Added information about Musikfest'97, May 25 & 97, 1997 at Vasa Park on Budd Lake, New Jersey, USA
• March 6, 1997
• Added more about the Ransäter accordion festival - probably the largest accordion festival in the world.
• March 3, 1997
• New accordion gallery section - Hagström accordions made in Italy.
• March 2, 1997
• Added a compilation of the Swedish accordion festivals in 1997.
• February 24, 1997
• Moved the accordion links to their own page. Added some new links as well.
• Added the main events of the Ransäter accordion festival 1996
• February 23, 1997
• Added sound files to the article about left hand chord combining.
• Added another set of pictures to the gallery. Famous Swedish accordionists on their Curtini accordions - including price list from 1961!
• More info about the Ransäter accordion festival - probably the biggest accordion festival in the world.
• February 19, 1997
• Added new sound files for Tango Cerise. Please listen to the .au or the .ra files if you want to hear me playing the tune. The .mid files are generated from a notation program.
• February 11, 1997
• Added sound files for Tango Cerise.
• February 9, 1997
• Added my first Tango, Tango Cerise, to my own compositions. This is my third tune this year and it's only February!
• Discovered some errors in the notation of Tango Cerise. Check your version if you've downloaded it today. It should be G D Eb in the melody after the intro.
• February 2, 1997
• Added my second composition this year. A rather sad waltz but most of the other tunes are very happy and I must have balance...
• Deleted the WAV files for my compositions to save space.
• January 27, 1997
• Added another great waltz by Andy Fielding, the winner of the waltz composition contest.
• January 26, 1997
• Added pictures of older Swedish/Italian Dise and Victorini accordions to the accordion gallery and divided it into part1, part2 and part3.
• January 25, 1997
• More sound files (dokument1) for my own compositions.
• January 22, 1997
• We have a winner in the waltz competition contest!
• January 19, 1997
• Described how I produce the notation for my tunes.
• January 16, 1997
• Added a "HTTP pseudostreaming selectable song list" for my own compositions for those with RealAudio 3.0 and a JavaScript-compliant browser.
• January 6, 1997
• Added the final waltz by Anders Umegård, Uppsala/Sweden, to the waltz composition contest. The voting has started!
• January 5, 1997
• Added my first composition for 1997 (composed this morning) to my own compositions. The name of the tune is Dokument1 (Document1). I've always had problems with naming my tunes. This name is the the default document name in Microsoft Word so this must be a good name...
• Added another sound file format (sampled MID files) to my own compositions.
• January 4, 1997
• Added another sound file (frs.au) from Ransäter 1996.
• The waltz composition contest is almost finished. I'll start another composition contest soon with other rules (no notation this time). I'll be back with an announcement in a few days. Don't wait for the announcement - start writing squeezebox polkas!
• December 27, 1996
• Added a waltz by Henry Doktorski, USA, to the waltz composition contest.
• December 23, 1996
• Added a waltz by Andy Fielding, Canada, to the waltz composition contest.
• December 22, 1996
• Added a Christmas postcard from 1984 with Lars Ek.
• December 11, 1996
• Added an article about left hand chord combining originally written by Steve Keen.
• Adjusted the sample rate to 8 kHz for the AU files for my own compositions.
• December 9, 1996
• Added a new waltz to the waltz competition contest. The waltz was composed by Inge Carlén from Hofors in Sweden.
• December 8, 1996
• Moved to http://accordion.simplenet.com to get more space.
• Added a new Polka (Cow Polka) and new audio file formats (AU, RA) for my own compositions.
• November 24, 1996
• Added another picture from Ransäter 1996 and a recording with Johan Kullberg playing a Zydeco Pot-pourri on his diatonic.
• November 21, 1996
• Added Postscript (EPS) files for my own compositions.
• November 18, 1996
• Added Accordions Worldwide and Deja News to the links section.
• November 17, 1996
• Moved the index of my compositions for the accordion to a subpage. Added 300 DPI notation as well.
• Added fingerings for the chromatic accordion.
• November 10, 1996
• Read about Ransäter Accordion Festival - probably the biggest accordion festival in the world!
• November 3, 1996
• Added some information about melody (free) bass systems.
• Two new pictures in the Accordion Gallery: Lars Ek Nostalgic (BORSINI), chromatic and piano. Incredibly beautiful accordions!
• Oktober 13, 1996
• I've translated all the stuff to Swedish. I'm getting more and more mail from Swedish players. The majority of the Swedish accordion players are (I think) older than 45 and may not be able to read the English version. I've heard that there are as many Americans with Swedish ancestors as there are Swedes. Many of those Americans may still be able to understand Swedish and if they're accordion players as well they may enjoy reading the Swedish version.
• September 7, 1996
• Replaced the Java banners on the main page with JavaScript banners. The new banners are not as impressive but the download time is much less since the Java applet was about 27 k.
• Added some more Accordion Jokes.
• August 31, 1996
• Added some animations to the main page (animated GIF's).
• August 27, 1996
• Added some more Accordion synonyms.
• August 24, 1996
• New Accordion Gallery - pictures of accordions and diatonics popular in Sweden.
• August 15, 1996
• Added java banners - only visible using java capable browsers.
• August 12, 1996
• Changed Internet provider from http://www.algonet.se/~hanspalm/ to http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-10674/
• Changed name of the page to Hans Palm's Accordion Page.
• August 4, 1996
• Added some more MIDI and GIF files for my own compositions.
• Removed the collections (ZIPped MUS and EPS files and the Microsoft Word file) to save space. I'm planning to add more GIF and MIDI files instead.
• I reduced the size of the WAV files for my own compositions since I included MIDI files.
• August 3, 1996
• Added MIDI files for three of my own compositions.
• August 1, 1996
• Added a 'Inside an Accordion' feature with pictures taken of my first accordion.
• July 30, 1996
• I had to create a new guestbook since the hard disk on the Lpage.com server crashed.
• July 27, 1996
• Added another picture of me.
• July 22, 1996
• Added some Swedish.
• July 21, 1996
• Added Free Reeds and FOTA (Friends of the Accordion) to the accordion links section.
• July 10, 1996
• Added a guestbook.
• July 9, 1996
• Included information about rec.music.makers.squeezebox.
• July 2, 1996
• Added a playable page access counter (yes, I'm a hacker and I couldn't resist creating this once I knew how to do it). Create music (notation) on every access to the main page!
• June 28, 1996
• Added an excellent article about accordion tuning by Alan Polivka.
• June 27, 1996
• The first two tunes for my waltz composition contest arrived almost the same day!
• Added a list of Accordion synonyms and links to invoke Lycos to search for those.
• June 9, 1996
• I've constructed a VRML 3D model of a chromatic accordion. The model and some snapshots for those unable to view VRML.
• May 31, 1996
• Changed background palette using http://www.lynda.com/hex.html due to complaints from Mac users unable to see the proper light blue background accordion image.
• May 20, 1996
• I finally got the picture and the article about the Uniform Keyboard from Gary Blair. Thanks a lot Gary!
• May 18, 1996
• More pictures
• Another update (thanks again Donald B. Larson) to the explanation of the B-system (Norwegian/Russian system).
• May 17, 1996
• More pictures, including a picture of different MIDI controllers for the chromatic player.
• Donald B. Larson explained the B-system (Norwegian/Russian system) to me and I've updated the treble system page.
• May 16, 1996
• Pictures of me and our accordion club included.
• Other pictures, including one of Sven, 95, who started playing at 91!
• A picture of a Norwegian chromatic accordion added to the treble system page.
• May 10, 1996
• New improved Stradella bass diagram
• April 29, 1996
• 18 accordions can't be wrong! Try this if your browser supports animated GIF's.
• April 24, 1996
• Hear my voice!
• Minor errors corrected.
• April 21, 1996
• Added some more links and a MIDI file to the quiz answer.
• April 20, 1996
• WAV files added for some of my own compositions.
• Musical quiz added (I'm playing a tune by a famous composer)
• April 18, 1996
• Update history added.
• Removed unnecessary tags that some browsers couldn't handle. I'm mostly using Netscape 2.01 Gold for WYSIWYG editing, with some manual HTML coding in special cases. This could cause problems that will show up in other browsers.
• April 17, 1996
• Some minor corrections of spelling, layout etc.
• April 16, 1996
• First test

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