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The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th century that use free reeds driven by a bellows. An instrument called accordion was first patented in 1829 by Cyrill Demian in Vienna. [notes 4] Demian's instrument bore little resemblance to modern instruments. It only had a left-hand buttonboard, with the right hand simply ...
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.
Srdjan Vukašinović is a classical and folk accordionist of Serbian-Swiss origin. He was born in Petrovac, Serbia into a musical family. [1] At the age of 16 in 1999, he won first prize for accordion players at the World Trophy Competition in Spain. [2]
The free-bass accordion didn't exist—it was entirely unknown when I was a child. At that time the accordion world was living in splendid isolation. No contact at all with the outside musical world. He said they heard shows with "Frosini, Deiro repertoire or folkloristic music." However, he found it was not possible to get a good education on ...
The first diatonic button accordion was patented under the name 'Accordion' in 1829 by Cyril Demian. [2] [1] The same year, Charles Wheatstone made the first concertina. [2] The first chromatic button accordion was made by Franz Walther in 1850. [3] The name 'Accordion' is thought to originate from Akkord, the German word for
The first chromatic piano-like accordions in Russia were built in 1871 by Nikolay Ivanovich Beloborodov. [21] In 1907, St. Petersburg master accordion maker V. S. Sterlingov created a chromatic button accordion for the player Ya. F. Orlandskiy-Titarenko featuring 52 melody keys and 72 chords of the Stradella bass system.
In the first three years after his 'birth,' Pillsbury reports that the Doughboy had an 87 percent recognition factor among consumers. At one point, the company says that the Doughboy was even ...
The accordion was brought to Switzerland in the 1830s, soon after its invention in Vienna. The earliest accordions were the typically one- or two-row diatonic button accordions, which carried on in Switzerland as the Langnauerli , named for Langnau in canton Bern .