How to stay Sane as a Single Survivor of a Pandemic. Ten tiplets.

The realization that you are truly the last man or woman on Earth may lead to psychotic mental disorders, such as anxiety, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, all the way to schizophrenia, dyspareunia, or even gender identity disorder or ego-dystonic homosexuality. In short: you may suffer from attacks of depression - that you better get under control, as they greatly threaten your survival. One way to fight depression is music. And one musical instrument that has always been associated with depression is the accordion! Here are ten factoids/factlets about this fascinating musical instrument and how it may help you in your desperate situation.

• The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family.
• It is sometimes referred to as a squeezebox, schifferklavier or questche.
• Variants include the concertina, schwyzerörgeli, buttontina and rtrikitixa.
• The accordion is in the same family as the sheng and khaen, both of which are much older than the accordion and could have well inspired the creation of the accordion as we know it today.
• The modern accordion was invented in Berlin in 1822 by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann
• Famous accordionists include Yvette Horner, Pietro Frosini, and the brothers Count Guido Deiro and Pietro Deiro, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Antonia Begonia, Luiz Gonzaga (known as the king of baião) and Ástor Piazzolla.
• The accordion is used in classical, folk, pop and traditional music – so it should be easy to find the musical genre that fits your personality and (hopeless) situation best.
• Learning to play the accordion is easier then mastering a Steinway grand piano, but still sufficiently challenging if compared to musical instruments such as the flute. So: low risk of either getting either frustrated or bored.
• Compared to a Steinway grand piano, transporting an accordion is much less challenging - although, unlike a flute, you can't slip it into your inside pocket.
• Only David Carradine manages to look halfway believable as he toots his flute in the movie Kill Bill. Ordinary people (a.k.a non-Hollywood moviestars) blowing on a hollow piece of wood quickly look like jerks - a bad survival strategy.