Get to know my city - Ptuj, Slovenija. In old Roman days it used to be called Poetovio.

My home, a small city in the East of Slovenija has a tradition with a strong connection to Austria. Well, at least that's how it's been throughout the past 100 years, our country has strongly been connected to the Austria/Hungary empire, and also indirectly to Germany.

One of the mutual traditions is the 3-chord accordion kids are playing on this picture

This one costs around 5000 euro

Ofcourse traditions change, more or less, depending on the country, but since I was born into this tradition,
this 3 chord accordion music is what I identify my country with.

People will usually say this accordion is hard to play, or harder to learn in comparison to the more worldwide known piano accordion.

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So is it really harder to learn the so called "FREITONARCA"?
In my opinion it's not really harder, just different. I always wanted to have it, but sadly, I could never afford it, since even a used one would cost me more than 1000 eu, where the "plain" used piano accordion costs 10 times less.

I can play the piano accordion, and I've tried playing Freitonarca(3chord accordion), and in direct comparison to it, I would say that with the piano accordion, your fingers need to be stretched a lot more to play the same tone/tune as on the Freitonarca.

There's a big misconception about these two similar instruments in Slovenija, maybe there's one in other countries too.
SOURCE: Facebook Page Ptuj Skozi Zgodovino