As you can see from my name this post really interests me as my husband (PWP) and I have always been keen energetic traditional dancers.(30+ years)That includes the kind of dancing you see on picture postcards...men in white, waving sticks or hankies.When he first presented symptoms I feared it would be the end of playing music and dancing.Alright, he has only been diagnosed two years and without Requp he loses his lift but the music carries him and while dancing he, at present, looks better than many 64 year olds.
The playing of the accordian is also interesting.He has always played by ear : most traditional muscians do.If he knows the tune and has played it before he has no trouble but if it is a tune he has not played before and is trying to join in, which is something he used to do with ease ,he can no longer do it .Luckily over 30 + years he knows hundreds if not thousands of tunes.