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Uhlig produced his first concertina in 1834, being dissatisfied with the early accordion keyboard developed by Cyrill Demian. Uhlig took the right-handed keyboard of Demian, and split it between the two hands, resulting in an instrument which had two separate keyboards producing individual notes.
The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th century that use free reeds driven by a bellows. An instrument called accordion was first patented in 1829 by Cyrill Demian in Vienna. [notes 4] Demian's instrument bore little resemblance to modern instruments. It only had a left-hand buttonboard, with the right hand simply ...
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.
The earliest accordions were the typically one- or two-row diatonic button accordions, which carried on in Switzerland as the Langnauerli, named for Langnau in canton Bern. The Langnauerli usually has one treble row of buttons and two bass/chord buttons on the left hand end, much like the accordion used in Cajun music (minus the stops), but is ...
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.
One of his models, had single notes and two rows of keys: first row the diatonic scale, the second row played the accidentals. The accordion tutor published in the Year of 1833 by Adolph Müller (Austrian National Bibliotheca) has an example [1] which includes pictures and descriptions of many different models. A music journal of Paris, printed ...
The artefacts unearthed at the site suggest it was associated with one of the world’s first cities, Uruk, now located in southern Iraq. At Uruk sites, archaeologists previously found a large ...
The button accordion was first mass-produced in Europe in 1835, with the piano accordion coming later. [2] It was the first mass-produced, loud, durable, portable instrument – though it was not cheap. [2] At first, the button accordion was too expensive to be very common among the lower and middle classes, but as it lost its novelty (around ...