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The Hohner Electravox is an electronic accordion made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which has one channel (combined left hand and right hand) or two channel (separate left hand and right hand channels, which enables independent volume changes), 92 bass/chord buttons, keyboard percussion effect for the bass buttons and keyboard, a vibrato ...
The Oahu Music Company was a music education program in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s to teach students to play the Hawaiian Guitar. Popular culture in America became fascinated with Hawaiian music during the first half of the twentieth century [1] and in 1916, recordings of indigenous Hawaiian instruments outsold every other genre of music in the U.S. [2] By 1920, sales 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).
In 1966, music store owner Howard Holman used his contacts at the Martin Band Instrument Company, owned by Wurlitzer at that time, to convince Wurlitzer to distribute a line of electric guitars manufactured by Holman's start-up company in Kansas. Wurlitzer became the sole distributor of guitars made by the Holman-Woodell Company of Neodesha ...
Two of the best-known Silvertone offerings are the Danelectro-built Silvertone 1448 and 1449, made in the early to mid-1960s. The 1448 had a single lipstick pickup , [ 9 ] while the 1449 was equipped with a two-pickup configuration, [ 10 ] and was succeeded in 1964 by the 1457 model. [ 11 ]
After earning a degree in chemical engineering, [5] in 1966 he went into business full-time as an accordion maker and player, based at his Savoy Music Center in Eunice. His wife is the singer and guitarist Ann Savoy , whom he met in 1975 and married in 1977. [ 5 ]
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.
This is a list of articles describing traditional music styles that incorporate the accordion, alphabetized by assumed region of origin.. Note that immigration has affected many styles: e.g. for the South American styles of traditional music, German and Czech immigrants arrived with accordions (usually button boxes) and the new instruments were incorporated into the local traditional music.