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He also performs in the world music duo Meduoteran with baglama player Taylan Arikan. [8] [9] Vukašinović invented the world's first a quarter-tone accordion. With Srdjan’s accordion, it is possible to play all 24 quarter tones within a single octave, especially on the button accordion, without changing the finger positions.
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 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 ...
Albin Hagström learned to play the accordion at an early age, and he started performing at local dances and parties. In 1921 he bought two German accordions. He then sold one of them, and he rented out the other one to local musicians. [1] These were the roots of his industrial career.
Viola Irene Turpeinen (15 November 1909 – 26 December 1958) was an American-Finnish polka accordion player. [1] She was one of the most well-known Finnish-American musicians of her time, [2] and is possibly the first woman in the world to record accordion solos.
Pesaturo's career is marked by several accomplishments in the world of accordion music, setting records, and winning championships across both acoustic and digital platforms. In 2009, he won the Coupe Mondiale World Digital Accordion Championship in Auckland , New Zealand , and became the first American to win a World Accordion Championship ...
She gave her first concert in 1947 in Paris and, in 1948, she was the first woman to win the Coupe mondiale de l'accordéon. [1] She was awarded the Grand Prix International d'Accordion de Paris in 1953.
This is a list of articles describing popular music acts that incorporate the accordion. The accordion appeared in popular music from the 1900s-1960s. This half century is often called the "Golden Age of the Accordion." Three players: Pietro Frosini, and the two brothers Count Guido Deiro and Pietro Deiro were major influences at this time.