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The accordion's basic form is believed to have been invented in Berlin, in 1822, by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, [notes 2] [6] although one instrument was discovered in 2006 that appears to have been built earlier. [notes 3] [7] [8] The earliest history of the accordion in Russia is poorly documented.
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 ...
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 ...
Twin fiddling traditions represent the music in its purest form, as it was brought to Louisiana with the early immigrants and before popular American tunes mingled with it. Gradually, the Cajun accordion emerged to share the limelight. [18] In the early 1930s, the accordion was pushed into the background by the popular string sounds of the time.
Important musicians in the years after World War II brought back the accordion as the lead instrument, following the string band era of the late 1930s and 1940s when the accordion was not featured on recordings. During the 1970s and beyond the trend continued, sometimes with elements of country-western music of the day and rock added to the sound.
The Schwyzerörgeli is a type of diatonic button accordion used in Swiss folk music. The name derives from the town/canton of Schwyz where it was developed. Örgeli is the diminutive form of the word Orgel (organ). Outside of Switzerland the instrument is not well known and is hard to find.
[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]