My mom played the accordion briefly in the '50s or '60s, but I've never known anyone else who's even handled one.

my parents made my brother take accordian lessons while we were growing up. beautiful instrument too.. and this was in the early 80s... you guessed it... in the great lakes region.

also ... to fohat... thanks for reminding me about the far side.

Surprisingly easy to pick up and play, difficult to master. The one that guy is using is a full-size piano one which are big and expensive for nice ones. I like the diatonic ones. Smaller and sound real nice.

My son goes to a school that's good for Irish trad music and when I asked him what instrument interested him he said accordion maybe I can rent one for a while see how he goes before putting up money. I play flute (passingly) would be handier give him that!

Never had much interest in piano or accordion.
I can do pretty much all woodwinds and some percussion (though I'm way out of practice). I didn't have the ear for horns even if I wanted to.

I started learning guitar years ago but didn't get very far for various reasons at the time. I was going to pick up bass guitar or maybe even an electronic drum kit (noise and space reasons) but just as I started looking Covid hit and prices shot through the roof. yay.

i did play a bit of it when i was young (7 or 8 years old) but in the middle of nowhere i could only learn flute, and that was rather difficult with bad lungs,

That was one reason I stuck with woodwinds, my doc encouraged it, it helped build up my lungs and learn to better control my breathing.

Piano ftw.. and so cheep to get started.

I learned to play the piano as a kid. In retrospect I'd rather have learned guitar, but piano is a good second choice, I think.