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Castagnari has been producing accordions since 1914. The company was founded by a man named Giacomo Castagnari who had been an apprentice of the famous accordion maker Philip Guzzini. Castagnari opened up his own workshop and eventually handed the business down to his sons. As of 2013, the company has been passed down through three generations.
How many reeds an accordion has is specified by the number of treble ranks and bass ranks. For example, a 4/5 accordion has four reeds on the treble side and five on the bass side. A 3/4 accordion has three reeds on the treble sides and four on the bass side. Reed ranks are classified by either organ 'foot-length' stops or instrument names ...
96-button Stradella bass layout on an accordion. C is in the middle of the root note row. The Stradella Bass System (sometimes called [1] standard bass) is a buttonboard layout equipped on the bass side of many accordions, which uses columns of buttons arranged in a circle of fifths; this places the principal major chords of a key (I, IV and V) in three adjacent columns.
Accordion Partners LLC is a private equity-focused business advisory and management consulting firm headquartered in New York operating under Accordion brand. The firm specializes in corporate and strategic finance, merger and acquisition execution, public company readiness, turnaround and restructuring, and technology.
This is a collection of articles on nationals of Italy who played accordion at a level that it is defining for them. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Free bass accordion is taught at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. In the United States, free bass instruments are much less well known despite attempts to popularize them by Palmer and Hughes and the Giulietti Accordion Company [17] [18] in the 1960s and
Farfisa (Italian: Fabbriche Riunite di Fisarmoniche) is a manufacturer of electronics based in Osimo, Italy, founded in 1946.The company manufactured a series of compact electronic organs in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Compact, FAST, Professional and VIP ranges, and later, a series of other keyboard instruments.
Maugein Freres has built accordions in the French town of Tulle since 1919, and the company is now the last complete-process [clarification needed] manufacturer of accordions in France. German companies such as Hohner and Weltmeister made large numbers of accordions, but production diminished by the end of the 20th century.