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Cory Pesaturo is an American multi-instrumentalist from Cumberland, Rhode Island, who plays the accordion, piano, clarinet, and saxophone.He began playing at the age of nine and became the youngest person to win the National Accordion Championship in 2002.
Webley is originally from Everett, Washington. [1] In high school, Webley played in a punk rock band called Moral Minority. He picked up the accordion in 1996 in his last year in college at the University of Washington when he was part of a performance of Bertolt Brecht's play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and wrote a couple of songs for the play on the accordion. [2]
Two years later, the company developed the Cordovox accordion with Lowrey, which combined accordion reeds with electronically generated sounds. [3] Following the introduction of the Vox Continental combo organ in 1962, Farfisa decided to quickly build a competing instrument using the technical expertise they had gained from working with Lowrey ...
The extravagant Kentridge show “In Praise of Shadows,” at the Broad museum two years ago, brought together history and the present, oppression and fantasy, colonialism and the power of the ...
The accordion's body consists of two boxes, commonly made of wood, joined by the bellows. These boxes house reed chambers for the right- and left-hand keyboards. Each side has grilles in order to facilitate the transmission of air in and out of the instrument and to allow the sound to project. The grille at the right-hand side is usually larger ...
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.
Robert Davine (born Aubrey Robert Davine; April 5, 1924 – November 25, 2001) was an internationally recognized Anerican concert accordionist and Professor of Accordion and Music Theory at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music.
The Harmoneon or concert accordion [2] (French: Harmonéon, accordeon de concert) is a French free reed aerophone, [3] invented by Pierre Monichon in 1948, although he only patented the instrument four years later in 1952. It has been taught in musical conservatories since 1974. [4]