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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 accordion was favored for adoption by Cajun musicians due to how loud it was, unamplified, in noisy dance halls; its ability to stay in tune; and its durability. [2] The most common tuning utilized is the key of C, although the key of D is also relatively common. [7] Some rarer accordions are constructed in the key of B flat.
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.
In the early twentieth century the Hohner corporation also assumed an important role in the evolution of the accordion from a folk instrument which was primarily performed by ear into a "legitimate" orchestral instrument which could be accepted on the concert hall stage. In the early 1900's this German manufacturer of musical instruments formed ...
The Cajun fiddle was a well established instrument which had been somewhat eclipsed by the German accordion fad, which had similar effect in French Canada. But in the Depression era the tide turned, and, according to Stricklin et al., it had never been eclipsed. [19] After World War II, the accordion
In the 17th century on the small reed-pipe organs called regal, these reed-pipes were replaced by the beating-reeds, and its form is closer to the later rocking melodeon, the early small pump organs or the early accordions. In the early 19th century when the free reeds became factory-manufacturable, various free reed instruments were invented ...
Ernst was the first Schrammel accordion player, who also arranged music for the quartet and wrote a tutorial for his instrument. Within a very short time, this combination of two violins, accordion, and contraguitar was known as "Schrammelquartett"; their music, up to now in Vienna's chamber music tradition, being called Schrammelmusik.
[4] [2] Surviving early instruments show that at first they only played chords, and were to be played left-handed, unlike now. [1] The first accordions only had 5 buttons (10 chords), so they were mostly used for accompaniment. [4] Early minstrel troupes toured America as early as 1843, spreading the accordion sound. [2]