Musician misses live gigs: Norm Seeberger, 78, took to playing accordion at very young age in North Dakota

Born and raised in a North Dakota town not far from Lawrence Welk’s birthplace, Norm Seeberger, 78, says he was indoctrinated into accordion music.

“My oldest sister bought me a toy accordion with only eight buttons on the right hand,” he recalled.

When his father saw his dogged determination to coax tunes from the toy, he purchased Seeberger a real instrument and arranged for music lessons from a nun.

“She tried to teach me, but I had a hard time reading the notes,” he said. “I played by ear. After a month she gave up and said, ‘I can’t teach you, you have your own way of playing.’ ”

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