In Australia, the accordion was the favorite instrument of buskers. Its popularity was at its peak between the s and s. If you ask people in Bosnia and Herzegovina where did accordions originate, or who invented the accordion, many would likely answer Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is understandable because the accordion is their national instrument. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the accordion is widely used in sevdalinka performances. Sevdalinka is a folk music genre that originated from this country.
The accordion had a huge role in the history of Brazilian music. Try to ask Brazilians where did accordions come from and many would most likely say that it originated from their country. When in fact, Germans and Italians introduced it to them. This transpired when some Europeans migrated to Brazil. The first type of accordion introduced in Brazil was the concertina. It was a chromatic accordion featuring buttons. It was in the s when its fame was at its peak.
Entry-level chromatic accordions usually only have 46 buttons arranged chromatically. In fact, almost a hundred accordion manufacturing facilities opened in Brazil. Most of them were in Rio Grande do Sul. The business closed in But, up until now, the popularity of Todeschini accordions continues. In fact, there are still Todeschini accordions that exist. A few musical instrument shops are still willing to provide their maintenance services.
There are many notable accordionists from Brazil. In some countries, the accordion forms part of traditional folk music. But in Brazil, it even forms part of pop music. In fact, the country regards it as the most popular melodic instrument. The notable piano accordionists from northeast Brazil include the Dominguinhos and Luiz Gonzaga. Their musical style is usually accompanied by other musical instruments.
Among these are the zabumba and the triangle. Now, this musical style is also popular in southeast Brazil. In southeast and midwest Brazil, the accordion is always a part of various music styles. These include the Sertanejo and Caipira music. Now, the entire country has adopted it. Again, many would mistaken their country as its place of origin.
This is because the accordion also forms part of their traditional music. It usually forms part of the cumbia and vallenato music genres. For instance, tropipop musicians features the accordion in the music.
Some of the notable accordion players who do are Bacilos, Fonseca, and Carlos Vives. The rock music genre features the accordion too. In fact, Juanes is one of these rock musicians. In pop music, Shakira is one of the musicians who feature the accordion.
Aside from all these, Colombians also hold competitions for accordionists. A well-known contest is the one at the Vallenato Legend Festival. Colombians hold this festival, called the Cradle of Accordions festival, on an annual basis. Also, the festival conducts a major competition every decade. In which case, the contestants are the winners for the last ten years. Indeed, the Vallenato Legend Festival conducts the largest competition for accordionists worldwide.
The accordion forms part of several music genres in Mexico. In fact, Mexico regards Ayala as its King of the Accordion. Mexican musician Julieta Venegas features the accordion in her music.
Her versatility allows the incorporation of the instrument in different genres. These include folk, pop and rock music. Handy recalled hearing train imitations played on the harmonica and accordion in the s, and the Hohner Marine Band diatonic in multiple keys became one of the defining sounds of early blues style. By the s, the accordion and harmonica industry produced more than 50 million instruments a year. A music school for accordion teachers was established in Trossingen, Germany, in ; it became an official state academy in under the principalship of Hugo Herrmann , whose collection Sieben neue Spielmusiken was the first important musical composition for the solo accordion.
The British College of Accordionists was founded in and provides a syllabus of accordion examinations still used today. American design innovations have made the instrument more versatile: Reeds were usually riveted, bolted, or screwed in place, but All-American models from the s were held in place by tension.
The U. Wood and metal were in short supply due to military demand, so Finn Magnus , a Dutch-American entrepreneur, developed molded-plastic versions. Bates and Arne B. The Bates archive contains more than 1, instruments and 2, pieces of trade literature and ephemera, including antique sheet music. A cultural history of the accordion in America Urbana: Illinois, examine the history of free-reed instruments.
Angelo Paul Ramunni of the New England Accordion Connection and Museum Company Accordion Stories from the Heart , and Rob Howard Vintage accordions : a pictorial history of the accordion , have published lavishly illustrated histories of the European accordion, and the Metropolitan Museum presented an exhibit on 19th-century free-reed instruments in Gallery from to Receive weekly email updates and news from EMA and the early music community. Sign Me Up!
A diatonic button accordion by the Berlin maker J. A rosewood French accordion from the s Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Similar instruments appear in late Meiji-period Japanese prints ss and postcards ss featuring young girls and professional geishas with French accordions MFA: Japanese girls with an accordion on a postcard from the late Meiji era. Sound Production Accordions are free-reed instruments consisting of pairs of pre-tuned metal reeds now usually steel riveted to metal plates now usually aluminum alloy.
Co-evolution of the Harmonica Shortly after clockmaker Matthias Hohner established his harmonica and accordion firm in , he shipped some to American relatives. A young Abraham Lincoln playing harmonica in a drawing by Lloyd Ostendorf President Abraham Lincoln carried a harmonica in his pocket, and the instrument was played by Civil War soldiers and by frontiersmen such as Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid.
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Copy Copied. The regal, later termed the Bible regal because of its wide use in churches, was the next step along this line. It had a keyboard, one or two sets of bellows, and, unlike the accordion and other open-reed instruments, close beating oboe-like reeds. This instrument eventually lost popularity due to a tendency to go out of tune too easily.
It was frequently used for accompanying madrigal singers, between the 15th and 18th centuries. There were actually many varieties of the free-vibrating reed instrument developed during the early s. Some of them are still quite well known today. Heinrich Band of Krefeld, Germany, invented the bandoneon in ; this square-shaped instrument, played by pressing finger buttons is popular with Argentine tango bands. That same year Alexandre Debain finished his harmonium in Paris.
In this pipeless organ commonly found in churches and households until the advent of electric organs in the s air is passed to the reed blocks via foot-operated bellows. In some early models a second person was required to pump air into the instrument through bellows attached to the rear of the keyboard. Early Literature As the renowned for accordions grew, so did a demand for instruction manuals.
The first such textbook, featuring both original music and arrangements of familiar pieces, was written by A. Reisner and published in Paris in Another tutorial volume, Pichenot's Methode pour l'accordeon, appeared later that year. In Adolph Muller published his instructional book in Vienna, and since then the music market has sustained a flood of similar programs, with about 30 titles published during the s alone.
Additionally, early accordions, like the bandoneon and, for that matter, the harmonica that exists today, produced different notes on the press and draw of the bellows. Thus, if the C key were pressed to produce that note on the opening of the bellows, the note D might sound when the bellows were closed. These instruments are characterised as diatonic, and the pitch of their notes was determined by the placement of the keys and the reeds by each maker.
The chromatic accordion, which produced the same note on the press and the draw of the bellows, came into use in when an accordionist named Walter requested that one be custom-built for him. His model, incidentally, also featured 12 bass buttons, cleverly arranged so that all 12 key signatures could be accommodated. One interesting development from this period was the appearance of what subsequently became known as the Schrammel accordion, first used in with a quartet comprising an accordion, two violins, and bass guitar.
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