Do something to promote the accordion. Here are a few ideas to get you started. (Some are, obviously, more serious than others.)

• Propose with an accordion. What could be more romantic than a love song played just for your sweetheart, on the accordion? Add some flowers, some champagne and your own personal touches (literal or otherwise!) and create an unforgettable memory.
• If you have already got a wedding scheduled, don't forget the accordion music.
• Form a roving group of accordionists to play at hospital rehabilitation units, nursing homes and day care centers.
• Support accordionists and accordion groups. Hire them for parties. Buy their CDs.
• Cherish your accordion. Dust it. Polish it. Give it a workout.
• Practice! Help make every accordion a played accordion.
• Be a mover and a "squeezer."
• Teach the politically correct not to make disparaging remarks about accordions.
• Take your accordion to an outdoor mall and just start playing. Be sure to have your turned-up hat on the ground in front of you. You can promote the accordion and make a few bucks at the same time!
• Build a little accordion "shrine" in your den. Ideas: your CAPA membership button, pictures of you and your accordion, pictures of your accordion heroes, a bottle of beer.
• Sabotage your office building's public address system. Substitute accordion music for elevator music.
• Volunteer to demonstrate the accordion at an elementary school. If you have a child in school, your child's class is a natural place to start.
• Take your accordion to work. Offer an accordion demonstration or performance during lunch. Be prepared to take a lot of kidding, but be a good sport. Perhaps, as a result, you will help your co-workers become accordion fans.
• If you know an aerobics instructor who is a good sport, offer to come and play the accordion for one of his or her classes.
• If you are male, show off your great pectoral muscles. Then say, "I got these from playing the accordion!" Wait for the oohing and aahing to stop, then talk about how building muscle strength is only one of the many benefits of playing the accordion.
• Take your accordion to the supermarket and start a polka in the produce section.
• Have an Accordion Awareness Party at your home. Wear your CAPA button. Invite anyone you know who has ever played the accordion and invite others to bring whatever instruments they play. Run off copies of the "I Hate the Beer Barrel Polka" polka for all to share and have some fun jamming. Decorate in black and white, like musical keys. Make a cake in the shape of a musical note. Provide beer. Play recordings of any groups you can find with an accordion in them. Make everyone promise to treat the accordion with reverence and honor!
• Take your accordion out of the closet and put it in the living room, in plain sight.
• Make a video. Many of us have parents who are always saying, "Why don't you ever play your accordion anymore?" Take the lead of CAPA member John Alexander. He is making a video tape of accordion music for his parents as a Christmas present. He is having fun with the tape, adding shots of his wife and him dancing, and telling anecdotes about the accordion in his life.