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  2. Accordion - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Accordion in music - Wikipedia

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    The accordion was spread across the globe by the waves of Europeans who emigrated to various parts of the world in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The mid-19th-century accordion became a favorite of folk musicians for several reasons: "The new instrument's popularity [among the common masses] was a result of its unique qualities.

  4. Pierre Monichon - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Monichon (24 October 1925 – 1 September 2006) [1] was a French accordionist, musicologist and inventor of the harmoneon (also concert accordion). He published several books on the history of the Accordion, and was a professor at both the CRR93, where he taught a course on the concert accordion and the Conservatoire National de la Région Aubervillers, where he was a professor of the ...

  5. Cyrill Demian - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Harmoneon - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Cajun accordion - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Schwyzerörgeli - Wikipedia

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    As most diatonic accordions are centered on certain keys, the Schwyzerörgeli is usually tuned in 'flat' keys to fit with the clarinet, with the outer row giving a B ♭ scale, the next row E ♭, and the next giving a mixture of notes allowing music to be played in A ♭, D ♭ and G ♭ when fingered across the rows.

  9. Cajun fiddle - Wikipedia

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    The fiddle was the central instrument in Cajun sound until the twenties when it was somewhat eclipsed by the accordion, both in Canada and the United States. In the early 1930s strings once again dominated. Mandolins, pianos, and banjos joined fiddles to create a jazzy swing beat strongly influenced by the western swing of Texas. [8]