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Charlie Gillingham playing the accordion John Linnell performing with They Might Be Giants on a Main Squeeze 911 accordion in Fort Lauderdale on March 12, 2008 "Weird Al" Yankovic playing a Roland FR-7 V-Accordion. This is a list of articles describing popular music acts that incorporate the accordion.
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.
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]
Charles Magnante (December 7, 1905 – December 30, 1986) was an American piano-accordionist, arranger, composer, author and educator.His artistry helped raise the image of the accordion from an instrument considered suitable only for folk music to an instrument accepted in many music genres.
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.
One can find only a few cassotto registers in German accordions, but they can be found in the Hohner Morino and Gola models, and the Harmona (Klingenthal) Cassotta, Supra & Supita models. There is a special construction in the Weltmeister Cassotta (374 + 414), also known as "Klingenthaler Spezialcassotto" or "Füllungscassotto".
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 ...
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).