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The accordion's popularity spread rapidly: it has mostly been associated with the common people, and was propagated by Europeans who emigrated around the world. The accordion in both button and piano forms became a favorite of folk musicians [35] and has been integrated into traditional music styles all over the world: see the list of music ...
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.
In accordance with its goal to uplift the accordion as a serious music instrument, the organization began a World Accordion Festival where players were nominated to compete for the "Coupe Mondiale" award. In 1961 the awards were expanded to include Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals for a variety of categories. [1]
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 heyday of the "Flutina" was approximately from 1840 to 1880. In the United States of America, the more robust steel-reeded German Melodians "won out" over these brass-reeded, soft, and delicate "accordion melodiques". French "accordion" manufactures nearly came to an end during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71. From 1880 on, the Italian ...
Antonio Galanti started the Galanti accordion factory with his three sons Domenico, Egidio and Robusto in the small village of Mondaino Italy. Galanti earned his living by traveling throughout Italy showcasing his Merry-Go-Round, while continuing to develop the first Galanti accordion in 1890. [1] The first Galanti accordions saw production in ...
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 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]