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Ceramics manufacturers of figurines — companies that manufacture figurines, as collectable objects and/or toys. Pages in category "Figurine manufacturers" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Farfisa made in Ancona, Italy. The background to Farfisa was the popularity of the accordion in early 20th-century Italy. Silvio Scandalli started making these instruments by hand, commuting to Castelfidardo, Ancona daily. He was hoping to work for Paolo Soprani, who established the country's first accordion factory.
Category: Italian accordionists. 8 languages. ... This is a collection of articles on nationals of Italy who played accordion at a level that it is defining for them.
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.
This is a list of articles describing traditional music styles that incorporate the accordion, alphabetized by assumed region of origin.. Note that immigration has affected many styles: e.g. for the South American styles of traditional music, German and Czech immigrants arrived with accordions (usually button boxes) and the new instruments were incorporated into the local traditional music.
And suddenly you spot it: a box of Hummels, the collectible figurines that debuted in 1935 based on the illustrations of one Maria Innocentia Hummel, a German nun.
An accordionist. Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord —"musical chord, concord of sounds") [1] are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
All accordions and concertinas have three main components: the reeds, bellows, and buttons or keys. Pushing or pulling the bellows slower or faster makes the sound softer or louder, respectively. [1] The accordion has free reeds [3] on both the treble and bass sides. In modern accordions, the free reeds are generally made of tempered steel. [3]