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This is a collection of articles on nationals of Italy who played accordion at a level that it is defining for them. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Antonio Galanti started the Galanti accordion factory with his three sons Domenico, Egidio and Robusto in the small village of Mondaino Italy. Galanti earned his living by traveling throughout Italy showcasing his Merry-Go-Round, while continuing to develop the first Galanti accordion in 1890. [1] The first Galanti accordions saw production in ...
The company history begins in the late 19th century when Antonio Galanti, musician and craftsman, founded a small accordion production facility in Mondaino, Italy. This became a family business and in subsequent years was enlarged: in 1917 the first Galanti factory was established in Mondaino [2] and afterwards the activity was inherited by his son Egidio.
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.
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Pietro Deiro. Pietro Deiro (1888 – 1954) was one of the most influential accordionists of the first half of the 20th century. [1] [2]Born on August 28, 1888, in Salto Canavese, Italy, the younger brother of Guido Deiro, Pietro Deiro emigrated to the United States as a steerage passenger on the S/S La Savoie in 1907 and went to live with his Uncle Frederico and work in the coal mines of Cle ...
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).
Nejc Pačnik (born 1990) – Slovenian accordionist, twice accordion world-champion and accordion teacher Esa Pakarinen (1911–1989) – Finnish accordionist and actor Willard A. "Bill" Palmer (1917–1996) – inventor of the quint system which was later patented by Titano as used in their line of "converter" (or "quint") bass accordions