Paul De Bra's personal website

Job: I'm a retired professor in computer science from the Eindhoven University of Technology with this webpage at the TU/e

Music: This is currently my "full time" occupation. It consists of playing the accordion, arranging music for accordion solo, ensemble and orchestra, and maintenance, repair and tuning of accordions (for close accordion friends only).

• Until 2014 I was conductor of the accordion orchestra Avanti. In 2014 Avanti reached the "superieure categorie" (the highest category defined by Vlamo).
• I play the piano, piano-accordion, button accordion (C-griff), accordina and bass accordion and am a member of Accordeana (in Helmond) and the Nederlands Symfonisch AccordeonOrkest. I also play in the accordion quintet ARTE, with enthusiastic accordion players from the Eindhoven region, and the accordion quintet Kwintissimo with enthusiastic accordion players from all over the Netherlands. For several years I also played in "Air d'Accordeon" in Weert.
• I arrange all types of music for acordion and accordion orchestra and sometimes also compose something myself. All my arrangements are freely available from this site.
• I repair and tune accordions for close friends. I cannot stand it when my (or someone else's) accordion is not working properly or out of tune so I have learned to repair and tune accordions. I learned the first basics from Henk Vos and later attended the Accordion Craft Academy, run by Victoria accordions, to become fully qualified according to the standards of Italian accordion manufacturing, maintenance and repair. (I completed all four modules (tiers) of the Academy on repair techniques.)

Photography: Many public and private images are served from my photo site.

3D printing: When something breaks and it can be fixed with a plastic part I design it and print on my FlashForge Creator Pro.

email: p.m.e.de.bra at gmail.com
skype: paul_debra