Jews in all these places quickly identified with the instrument’s captivating ... Horowitz observes, the accordion was “present at every stage of klezmer music in both the Old and New Worlds ...

Google Doodle celebrated the ‘accordion’ on Thursday, a German musical instrument patented on this day in 1829, referring to it as a folk musician's “main squeeze.” This free-reed ...

A Melodeon is a chromatic accordion and there are people who already ... are used to detect the squeezing and pulling of the instrument’s bellows. His did some solid work. The video above ...

these toy instruments can motivate them to explore their musical interests one instrument at a time, whether it's playing the ...

With Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico ... by tracing the complex histories of his estranged ...

Some contemporary Kashubian folk bands feature a burczybas. This instrument was devised in Warsaw by Piotr Stamirowski’s accordion company. The air that generates the sound in this music device is ...

But, first he had to take the thing apart — no small task, given the complexity of the instrument. The accordion has 120 buttons, and they’re not interchangeable, which means he had to ...

Part music venue, part instrument shop, coffee bar and ideas factory, it gave rise not only to musicians like John Fahey and Canned Heat, but also to f... Intimate portrait of a legendary bluesman ...

The Beirut-based artist takes the accordion out of the beer halls of Bavaria and into the wide-open spaces of ambient ...