Accordeon kind of sounds like an organ. But accordeonists are always smiling and laughing and drinking, even while sucking most egregiously. Unlike organists, who tend to be anal, fiddly perfectionists who never let anything bad happen through sheer force of will. One can only suppose that the accordeonists just don’t care, or maybe they just figure everyone listening is too blotto to care. An alternate theory is that all that accordeon playing has made them deaf, but you’d think those would be the good ones. And since I have friends who play, I just want to say that there do exist good box players. Along with a lot of execrable ones, like anything else.
Playing Accordeon,
As an avid accordion player, it's just that accordion sounds really bad when done badly, kinda like violin. People that just pick one up and think that they will be able to manage because they play piano a little bit will probably sound horrid since it takes finess to control the volume and smooth things out. Good examples of good execution that are current and easy to find- The Barons of Tang, Jason Webley, Hobo Gobbelins- sorry, all similar style, but that's just the type I listen to.
Since I did that cartoon I went with my buddy Miguel to his accordion lesson. There's a lot to learn, and I really like the sound of the accordion when it's well played and in the right place, especially the bandoneon. It's just this one time at a bar I was a little pickled and shed my normal inhibitions and picked up an accordion and sucked mightily and I wasn't so drunk so as to not realize how bad I was sucking, but nobody seemed to care, unlike in church with the organ where you feel like you will be shot in the back if you accidentally step on the wrong pedal.