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An accordionist. Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord —"musical chord, concord of sounds") [1] are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
The accordion is popular among folk punk and folk rock bands who perform music from countries that often use the accordion, such as in the subgenres of celtic punk and gypsy punk. Such bands include The Dreadnoughts, Gogol Bordello, the Zydepunks, and Flogging Molly. The accordion has been a primary instrument in Mexican music.
Busato made these instruments as a favour to Monichon, who was the accordion teacher of his two daughters. [6] Later on, harmoneons were added to the catalogues of accordion producers such as Bonifassi, [10] Atelier, [11] Cavagnolo, and Maugein. The instrument was played primarily in France, the Netherlands and in Germany.
Hohner has manufactured a wide range of instruments, such as harmonicas, kazoos, accordions, recorder flutes, melodicas, banjos, electric, acoustic, resonator and classical guitars, basses, mandolins and ukuleles (under the brand name Lanikai). Hohner is known mostly for its harmonicas.
The Cajun accordion is generally defined as a single-row diatonic accordion, as compared to multiple-row instruments commonly used in Irish, Italian, polka, and other styles of music. The Cajun accordion has four reed ranks , i.e., four reeds for each melody button, and each reed bank is controlled by a corresponding stop or knob on the top of ...
The advent of the accordion is the subject of debate among researchers. Some historians credit Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann as the inventor of the accordion, but most others give the distinction to Cyrill Demian, an Armenian-Romanian from the Transylvanian town of Szamosújvár (ancient Armenopolis) living in Vienna, who patented his accordion in 1829, thus coining the name.
All accordions and concertinas have three main components: the reeds, bellows, and buttons or keys. Pushing or pulling the bellows slower or faster makes the sound softer or louder, respectively. [1] The accordion has free reeds [3] on both the treble and bass sides. In modern accordions, the free reeds are generally made of tempered steel. [3]
Pierre Monichon (24 October 1925 – 1 September 2006) [1] was a French accordionist, musicologist and inventor of the harmoneon (also concert accordion). He published several books on the history of the Accordion, and was a professor at both the CRR93, where he taught a course on the concert accordion and the Conservatoire National de la Région Aubervillers, where he was a professor of the ...