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Accordion Squeezebox Classification Free-reed instrument Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2016x1602, 1049 KB)My 24-bass piano accordion. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument where sound is produced as air passes a reed in a chamber, causing the reed to vibrate. ... Playing range Related instruments Bandoneon Concertino Garmon Musicians List of accordionists For other uses, see Accordion (disambiguation). This article is about the instrument as a whole. For a full description of the sound-producing mechanism, see Free reed aerophone. An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. The playing range of a musical instrument is the region of pitch in which it can play, i. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... The bandone n is a free-reed instrument instrument particularly popular in Argentina. ... A concertino is the smaller group of instruments in a concerto grosso. ... Garmon The word garmon (Russian: гармонь) literally means accordion, in Russian although it usually usually refers to a specific class of Russian accordions that have two rows of buttons on the right side, which play the notes of a diatonic scale, and at least... [1]SALOMON CANELO acordeonista mexicano Gus Viseur, a French accordionist. ... Accordion may refer to: Accordion, a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox Accordion (solitaire), a solitaire card game Accordion, a song by Madvillain from their album Madvillainy Accordion cut, a technique in butchery similar to butterflying Accordion (GUI), a... A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument where sound is produced as air passes a reed in a chamber, causing the reed to vibrate. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A large bellows creates a mushroom cloud at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. ... A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument where sound is produced as air passes a reed in a chamber, causing the reed to vibrate. ... The term Squeezebox is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones. ... The accordion is played by compression and expansion of a bellows, which generates air flow across reeds; a keyboard or buttons control which reeds receive air flow and therefore the tones produced. A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to make music. ... The layout of a typical musical keyboard A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds. ... Contents 1 Physical description 2 History 3 Manufacturing process 4 Musical genres 5 Button accordions 5.1 Hybrids 6 Stradella bass system 6.1 Common configurations 7 Free bass systems 8 Audio samples 9 Related instruments 9.1 Squeezeboxes 9.2 Digital accordions 9.3 Other free-reeds 10 Famous accordionists 11 References 12 External links [edit] Physical description An accordion player in Seville, Spain. Jenny Romaine, accordion player with Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok, Coney Island. Modern accordions consist of a body in two parts, each generally rectangular in shape, separated by a bellows. On each part of the body is a keyboard containing buttons, levers or piano-style keys. When pressed, the buttons travel in a direction perpendicular to the motion of the bellows (towards the performer). Most, but not all modern accordions also have buttons capable of producing entire chords. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 446 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,709 × 2,297 pixels, file size: 808 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) An accordion player in Seville, Spain. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 446 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,709 × 2,297 pixels, file size: 808 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) An accordion player in Seville, Spain. ... For other uses, see Seville (disambiguation). ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1485x1767, 914 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Accordion Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1485x1767, 914 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Accordion Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Jennifer Miller (1961-) is a US lesbian bearded woman, juggler, and fire-eater, and a professor for UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures. ... For other uses, see Coney Island (disambiguation). ... The layout of a typical musical keyboard A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds. ... A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... Typical fingering for a second inversion C major chord on a guitar. ... [edit] History The accordion's basic form was invented in Berlin in 1822 by Friedrich Buschmann. The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th century that used free reeds driven by a bellows; notable among them were: This article is about the capital of Germany. ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann (17 June 1805 –1 October 1864) was a German musical instrument maker, often credited with inventing the harmonica and sometimes the accordion. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Aeoline, by German Bernhard Eschenbach (and his cousin, Caspar Schlimbach), 1810. It was a piano with an added aeoline register. Similar instruments were the Aeoline Harmonika and Physharmonika. Aeoline and Aura were first without bellows or keyboard. The Hand Physhamonika, by Anton Haeckl, a hand type produced 1818 and patented in 1821. The flutina, by Pichenot Jeune, ca. 1831. The concertina, patented in two forms (perhaps independently): one by Carl Friedrich Uhlig, 1834 and the other by Sir Charles Wheatstone, of which examples were built after 1829, but no patent taken out until 1844. An instrument called accordion was first patented in 1829 by Cyrill Demian in Vienna. Demian's instrument bore little resemblance to modern instruments; it only had a left hand keyboard, with the right hand simply operating the bellows. One key feature for which Demian sought the patent was the sounding of an entire chord by depressing one key. His instrument also could sound two different chords with the same key: one for each bellows direction (press, draw); this is called a bisonoric action. An aerophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound. ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Anton Haeckl was a musical instrument builder in Vienna, who built the first physharmonica in 1818. ... Year 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ... Year 1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... A flutina The flutina is an early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, which are configured to have the tonic of the scale, on the draw of the bellows. ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Wheatstone English concertina, circa 1920 This article is about the musical instrument. ... Year 1834 (MDCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Sir Charles Wheatstone (February 6, 1802 - October 19, 1875) was the British inventor of many innovations including the English concertina an early form of microphone the Playfair cipher (named for Lord Playfair, the person who publicized it) and the Wheatstone bridge. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jan. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... At that time in Vienna, mouth harmonicas with "Kanzellen" (chambers) had already been available for many years, along with bigger instruments driven by hand bellows. The diatonic key arrangement was also already in use on mouth-blown instruments. Demian's patent thus covered an accompanying instrument: an accordion played with the left hand, opposite to the way that comtemporary chromatic hand harmonicas were played, small and light enough to for travellers to take with them and use to accompany singing. The patent also described instruments with both bass and treble sections, although Demian preferred the bass-only instrument owing to its cost and weight advantages. In Music theory, the diatonic major scale (also known as the Guido scale), from the Greek diatonikos or to stretch out, is a fundamental building block of the European-influenced musical tradition. ... Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency or range. ... Treble is a term applied in music to the high or acute part of the musical system, as opposed to the bass, the lower or grave part. ... The musician Adolph Müller described a great variety of instruments in his 1833 "Schule für Accordion". At the time, Vienna and London had a close musical relationship, with musicians often performing in both cities in the same year, so it is possible that Wheatstone was aware of this type of instrument and may have used them to put his key-arrangement ideas into practice. Year 1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Jeune's flutina resembles Wheatstone's concertina in internal construction and tone color, but it appears to complement Demian's accordion functionally. The flutina is a one-sided bisonoric melody-only instrument whose keys are operated with the right hand while the bellows is operated with the left. When the two instruments are combined, the result is quite similar to diatonic button accordions still manufactured today. A flutina The flutina is an early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, which are configured to have the tonic of the scale, on the draw of the bellows. ... Wheatstone English concertina, circa 1920 This article is about the musical instrument. ... In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note which distinguishes different types of musical instrument. ... In Music theory, the diatonic major scale (also known as the Guido scale), from the Greek diatonikos or to stretch out, is a fundamental building block of the European-influenced musical tradition. ... Further innovations followed and continue to the present. Various keyboard systems have been developed, as well as voicings (the combination of multiple tones at different octaves), with mechanisms to switch between different voices during performance, and different methods of internal construction to improve tone, stability and durability. Approximately 2.5 million Americans play the accordion. The inside of an early 20th century button accordion with a closeup of the reeds. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 668 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2608 × 2340 pixel, file size: 4. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 668 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2608 × 2340 pixel, file size: 4. ... [edit] Manufacturing process The manufacture of an accordion is not a completely automated process. In a sense, all accordions could be called handmade, since there is always some hand assembly of the small parts required. The general process involves making the individual parts, assembling the subsections, assembling the entire instrument, and final decorating and packaging.[1] However, the best accordions are always hand-made, especially in the aspect of reeds; completely hand-made reeds have a far better tonal quality than even the best automatically-manufactured reeds. Some accordions have been modified by individuals striving to bring a more pure sound out of low-end instruments, such as the ones improved by Yutaka Usui, a Japanese-born craftsman. [edit] Musical genres The accordion as main instrument for Vallenato Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century). In Colombia, the instrument was first introduced by European immigrants and merchants mainly of German origin through the Antilles Islands in the early 20th Century, where local troubadours from the Caribbean Region used it as an instrument to accompany their sung messages. This form of music developed into the musical genre called Vallenato, representative of Colombia. Image File history File links Combovallenato. ... Image File history File links Combovallenato. ... Vallenato, along with cumbia, is the most popular folk music of Colombia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 593 pixel Image in higher resolution (2924 × 2168 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 593 pixel Image in higher resolution (2924 × 2168 pixel, file size: 2. ... The Antilles (the same in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch) refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... For the article about the night club in West Hollywood, California, see: Troubadour (nightclub). ... Caribbean Region The Caribbean Region or Caribbean Coast Region, is a regional sub-division of Colombia, composed of eight Departments located inside or around the Caribbean sea area pertaining to the country. ... Vallenato, along with cumbia, is the most popular folk music of Colombia. ... The instrument was popularized in the United States by Count Guido Deiro who was the first piano accordionist to perform in Vaudeville. Guido Deiro (1886-1950) was a star of the piano-accordion. ... This article is about the musical variety theatre. ... Accordion is the main instrument in the musette style of ballroom music in France (a style now largely out of fashion) and in the 1950s chanson singing, which has a revival in the form of neo-realism. Musette can refer to several things: A type of bellows blown bagpipe found in rural France; also called musette de cour). ... The 1950s decade refers to the years 1950 to 1959 inclusive. ... Chanson is a French word for song, and in English-language contexts is often applied to any song with French words, particularly a cabaret song. ... Mexican Norteño music also relies heavily on the accordion. The instrument was introduced into Northern Mexico by German immigrants during the 19th century. Mexican bands like Ramón Ayala y sus Bravos del Norte, Los Tiranos Del Norte, Los Cachorros De Juan Villarreal, Los Huracanes Del Norte, Los Invasores De Nuevo Leon, and Los Cadetes De Linares have made very successful musical careers out of their lively riffs. Chicken scratch (also known as waila music) is a kind of dance music developed by the Tohono O'odham people. The genre is derived from Mexican Norteño and evolved out of acoustic fiddle bands in southern Arizona, in the Sonoran desert. Norteño (Spanish: northern) has several meanings in English usage: A member of one of several affiliated street gangs of Mexican origin that operate in the United States. ... Ramon Ayala y sus Bravos del Norte Ramón Ayala (born March 10, 1945) is an Mexican accordionist and songwriter. ... Chicken scratch (also known as waila music) is a kind of dance music developed by the Tohono Oodham people. ... The Tohono Oodham are a Native American tribe formerly known as the Papago who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. ... The accordion is an important instrument in Dutch folk music, and often the only melodious instrument when clog dancing. It is also significant in Scandinavian folk music, with notable performers including Finnish accordionist Maria Kalaniemi. Scandinavian-influenced British folk music has, in recent years, also featured accordionists such as Karen Tweed. Maria Kalanemi (born 1964) is a Finnish accordeonist. ... Karen Tweed (born 1963, Willesden) is a piano accordionist from London, England. ... The accordion is commonly used as part of dance and ceilidh bands in English, Scottish and Irish traditions. Céilí (Irish reformed spelling), or Ceilidh (Scottish and older Gaelic spelling), pronounced Kay-Lee in either case, is the traditional Gaelic social dance in Ireland and Scotland. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... Accordion is also a central instrument in Zydeco, Cajun music and in Polka, heard in Europe and North and South America. Early Creole musicians playing an accordion and a washboard in front of a store, near New Iberia, Louisiana (1938). ... Cajun music, an emblematic music of Louisiana, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Catholics of Canada. ... Street musicians in Prague playing a polka Polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre of dance music. ... The accordion gained notoriety in the 1990s when Jaleel White portrayed an accordion-playing nerdy neighbor (Steve Urkel) on Family Matters. In the English-speaking pop-music world, it is often seen as the epitome of an "uncool" instrument parents force their children to learn in lieu of a different, "cooler" instrument such as the guitar; however some popular rock music acts, including "Weird Al" Yankovic, They Might Be Giants, The Decemberists, The Arcade Fire, Devotchka, Calexico, The Tiger Lillies, and Gogol Bordello incorporate the accordion in their distinctive sound. For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... This article is about the musician himself. ... This article is about the musical group. ... The Decemberists are a five-piece indie pop band from Portland, Oregon, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy . ... The Arcade Fire is an indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising band members Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld, and Jeremy Gara. ... DeVotchKa is a four piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble that fuses Romani, Greek, Slavic, Bolero, and Mariachi music with American punk and folk roots. ... For the city, see Calexico, California. ... Tiger Lillies during a concert The band after a concert The Tiger Lillies are an obscure cult three-piece band, based in London. ... Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City that formed in 1999 and is known for its theatrical stage shows[1]. Much of the bands sound is inspired by Gypsy music, as some of its members are immigrants from Eastern Europe. ... In northeastern Brazil, the accordion, along with the triangle and the zabumba, is the main instrument used in forró, a traditional style usually played by trios. This genre features accordionists such as Sivuca, Dominguinhos and the "King of Baião", Luiz Gonzaga. An old-fashioned triangle, with wand (beater) Angelika Kauffmann: LAllegra, 1779 The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family. ... Statues of Forró musicians Forró is a kind of popular Northeastern Brazilian dance, as well as a type of music which accompanies the dance. ... It is also extremely widely used in Eastern Europe, especially in Klezmer music. Klezmer (from Yiddish כּלי־זמיר, etymologically from Hebrew kli zemer כלי זמר, musical instrument) is a musical tradition which parallels Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. ... While the accordion is a versatile instrument and is widely played throughout the world, it is not universally respected, largely because of an incorrect assumption that it is only used for polka music. A representative jibe is one from Gary Larson, author of The Far Side, who drew a cartoon with the punchline "Welcome to heaven, here's your harp. / Welcome to hell, here's your accordion." Gary Larson (b. ... This article is about the comic strip. ... The accordion (Hangeul: 아코디언) is a very integral aspect of "Trot" music (Hangeul: 트로트) from North Korea and South Korea. Trot music was extremely popular in the first half of the twentieth century and it is still enjoyed by many older Koreans to this day. The accordion is often the only the instument present in a song routine. Trot music and the accordion have gained a very widespread revival in recent years in the wake of the popular singer, Jang Yoon Jeong (Hangeul: 장윤정)and her super-hit song "Oemana!" (Hangeul: 어마나!). [1] The trot is a gait of the horse where the diagonal pairs of legs move forwards at the same time. ... For the page on Miss Korea 1988, see Jang Yoon-jeong (Miss Korea). ... [edit] Button accordions Chromatic button system (type C) Chromatic button system (type B) Garmon' player On button accordions the melody-side keyboard consists of a series of buttons (rather than piano-style keys.) There exists a wide variation in keyboard systems, tuning, action and construction of these instruments. Image File history File links C-Griff. ... Image File history File links C-Griff. ... Image File history File links B-Griff. ... Image File history File links B-Griff. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (838x1118, 171 KB) Description: Busking Accordionist in Dorsten. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (838x1118, 171 KB) Description: Busking Accordionist in Dorsten. ... Button Accordion is type of accordion which evolves from the older and more basic melodeon. ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The layout of a typical musical keyboard A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds. ... For other uses, see Button (disambiguation). ... A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... Diatonic button accordions have a melody-side keyboard that is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys (sometimes only one). The bass side usually contains the principal chords of the instrument's key and the root notes of those chords. A diatonic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys (sometimes only one). ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In Music theory, the diatonic major scale (also known as the Guido scale), from the Greek diatonikos or to stretch out, is a fundamental building block of the European-influenced musical tradition. ... In music, a scale is a set of musical notes that provides material for part or all of a musical work. ... In music theory, the key identifies the tonic triad, the chord, major or minor, which represents the final point of rest for a piece, or the focal point of a section. ... Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency. ... Typical fingering for a second inversion C major chord on a guitar. ... Almost all diatonic button accordions (e.g.: melodeon) are bisonoric, meaning each button produces two notes: one when the bellows is compressed, another while it is expanded; a few instruments (e.g.: garmon') are unisonoric, with each button producing the same note regardless of bellows direction; still others have a combination of the two types of action: see Hybrids below. The terms melodeon and melodion can refer to any of several related musical instruments of the free reed aerophone family: A type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-operated vacuum bellows, and a piano keyboard. ... A large bellows creates a mushroom cloud at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. ... Garmon The word garmon (Russian: гармонь) literally means accordion, in Russian although it usually usually refers to a specific class of Russian accordions that have two rows of buttons on the right side, which play the notes of a diatonic scale, and at least... A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of uniform rows of buttons arranged so that the pitch increases chromatically along diagonals. The bass-side keyboard is usually the Stradella system, one of the various free-bass systems, or a converter system. Included among chromatic button accordions is the Russian bayan. Sometimes an instrument of this class is simply called a chromatic accordion, although other types, including the piano accordion, are fully chromatic as well. There can be 3 to 5 rows of treble buttons. In a 5 row chromatic, two additional rows repeat the first 2 rows to facilitate options in fingering. Chromatic button accordions are preferred by many classical music performers, since the treble keyboard with diagonally arranged buttons allows a greater range, and often far greater speed, than a piano keyboard configuration. There exists an accordion with 6 rows in the treble side. It is commonly played in Serbia and throughout former Yugoslavia. The rows are based on the B system. The natives refer to it as "dugmetara". A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged so that the pitch increases diagonally along and across the rows. ... The chromatic scale is a scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone or half step apart. ... See the accordion article for features of the bayan that are common to all accordions. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... The Janko keyboard is used for the treble side of some accordions. The Janko keyboard is a musical keyboard layout for a piano designed by Paul von Janko. ... Various cultures have made their own versions of the accordion, adapted to suit their own music. Russia alone has several, including the bayan, Garmon', Livenka, and Saratovskaya Garmonika. Garmon The word garmon (Russian: гармонь) literally means accordion, in Russian although it usually usually refers to a specific class of Russian accordions that have two rows of buttons on the right side, which play the notes of a diatonic scale, and at least... Categories: Music stubs | Keyboard instruments | Free reed aerophones | Sets of free reeds ... The Saratovskaya Garmonika, named after the Russian city of Saratov, is a colorful variant on the standard one row push-pull diatonic button accordion. ... [edit] Hybrids Various hybrids have been created between instruments of different keyboards and actions. Many remain curiosities, only a few have remained in use. Some notable examples are: The Schrammel accordion, used in Viennese chamber music and Klezmer, which has the treble keyboard of a chromatic button accordion and a bisonoric bass keyboard, similar to an expanded diatonic button accordion. The schwyzerörgeli or Swiss organ, which has a (usually) 3-row diatonic treble and 18 unisonoric bass buttons in a bass/chord arrangement (actually a subset of the Stradella system), that travel parallel to the bellows motion. The trikitixa of the Basque people has a 2-row diatonic, bisonoric treble and a 12-button diatonic unisonoric bass. In Scotland, the favoured diatonic accordion is the instrument known as the British Chromatic Accordion. While the right hand is bisonoric, the left hand follows the Stradella system. The elite form of this instrument is generally considered to be the German manufactured "Shand Morino", produced by Hohner with the input of the late Sir Jimmy Shand.[2] The Schrammel Accordion (Die Schrammelharmonika) A Schrammel accordion (German: Schrammelharmonika) is an accordion with a melody (right hand) keyboard in the chromatic B-Griff system and a twelve-button diatonic bass keyboard. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... Klezmer (from Yiddish כּלי־זמיר, etymologically from Hebrew kli zemer כלי זמר, musical instrument) is a musical tradition which parallels Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. ... The Schwyzeroergeli is a type of diatonic button accordion used in Swiss folk music. ... The trikitixa or eskusoinu (hand sound) is a two-row Basque diatonic button accordion, with right-hand rows keyed a fifth apart and twelve unisonoric bass buttons. ... Language(s) Basque - few monoglots Spanish - 1,525,000 monoglots French - 150,000 monoglots Basque-Spanish - 600,000 speakers Basque-French - 76,000 speakers [4] other native languages Religion(s) Traditionally Roman Catholic The Basques (Basque: ) are an indigenous people[5] who inhabit parts of north-central Spain and southwestern... This article is about the country. ... Hohner is a company specialising in the manufacture of musical instruments. ... James Shand (January 28, 1908—December 23, 2000) was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. ... [edit] Stradella bass system The Stradella Bass System uses rows of buttons arranged in a circle of fifths; this places the principal major chords of a key in three adjacent rows. Each row contains, in order: A major third (the "counter-bass" note), the root note, the major chord, the minor chord, the (dominant) seventh chord, and the diminished seventh chord. In music theory, the circle of fifths (or cycle of fifths) is an imaginary geometrical space that depicts relationships among the 12 equal-tempered pitch classes comprising the familiar chromatic scale. ... A major third is the larger of two commonly occuring musical intervals that span three diatonic scale degrees. ... The root (basse fondamentale) of a chord is the note upon which that chord is perceived or labelled as built or centered, the root of a chord in root position or normal form. ... Generally speaking, a major chord is any chord which has a major third above its root, as opposed to a minor chord which has a minor third. ... Generally speaking, a minor chord is any chord which has a minor third above its root, as opposed to a major chord which has a major third. ... A seventh chord is a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chords root. ... A seventh chord is a chord or triad which has a note the seventh above the tonic in it. ... All chord buttons sound 3 note chords. Early attempts to create 4 note seventh and diminished chords were hampered by mechanical difficulties. Consequently, modern Stradella systems drop the 5th from these two chords. This has the side benefit of making the preformed chords more versatile. For example, an augmented chord can be created by using the dominant seventh button and adding an augmented 5th from the piano keyboard or from one of the bass or counterbass buttons. Depending on the price, size or origin of the instrument, some rows may be missing completely or in different positions. In most Russian layouts the diminished seventh chord row is moved by one button, so that the C diminished seventh chord is where the F diminished seventh chord would be in a standard Stradella layout; this is done in order to achieve a better reachability with the forefinger. [edit] Common configurations Stradella bass layout Name Columns Rows 12-bass 6 - Root notes: B♭ to A Root note, major 24-bass 8 - Root notes: E♭ to E Root note, major, minor 32-bass 8 - Root notes: E♭ to E Root note, major, minor, 7th 40-bass 8 - Root notes: E♭ to E Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor, 7th 48-bass 8 - Root notes: E♭ to E Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor, 7th, diminished 12 - Root notes: D♭ to F♯ Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor 60-bass 12 - Root notes: D♭ to F♯ Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor, 7th 72-bass 12 - Root notes: D♭ to F♯ Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor, 7th, diminished 80-bass 16 - Root notes: C♭ to G♯ Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor, 7th 96-bass 16 - Root notes: C♭ to G♯ Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor, 7th, diminished 120-bass 20 - Root notes: Low A to A♯ Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor, 7th, diminished 140-bass 20 - Root notes: Low A to A♯ Root note, counter-bass note, major, minor, 7th, diminished, augmented (or extra counter-bass note) 160-bass 20 - Root notes: Low A to A# Root note, three counter-bass notes, major, minor, 7th, diminished Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 246 pixelsFull resolution (896 × 276 pixel, file size: 16 KB, MIME type: image/png) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 246 pixelsFull resolution (896 × 276 pixel, file size: 16 KB, MIME type: image/png) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... [edit] Free bass systems Free bass systems allow the player to construct their own chords as well as to play bass melodies in several octaves. There are various free bass systems in use; most consist of a rotated version or mirror image of one of the melody layouts used in chromatic button accordions. One notable exception is the Titano line of converter bass, which repeats the first two bass rows of the Stradella system one and two octaves higher moving outward from the bellows. New York's Dr William Schimmel, who composes and performs in many genres, is a leading exponent of this particular bass system and uses it extensively in tandem with the standard stradella system. In the United States, Julio Giulietti was the chief manufacturer and promoter of the free bass accordion that he called a "bassetti" accordion which was mass produced from the late 1950s onward. Giulietti accordions with free bass capability often had a "transformer" switch to go from standard pre-set chords to individual free bass notes. Dr. William Schimmel is one of the principal architects in the resurgence of the accordion, the revival of the Tango in America and the philsophy of Musical Reality (composition with pre-existing music). ... Skillful use of the free bass system enabled the performance of classical piano music, rather than music arranged specifically for the accordion's standard chorded capability. Beginning in the 1960s, competitive performance on the accordion of classical piano compositions, by the great masters of music, occurred. Although never mainstreamed in the larger musical scene, this convergence with traditional classical music propelled young accordionists to an ultimate involvement with classical music heretofore not experienced. Within the United States, several noted instrumentalists demonstrated the unique orchestral capabilities of the free bass accordion while performing at the nation's premier concert venues and encouraged contemporary composers to write for the instrument. Included among the leading orchestral artists was John Serry, Sr.- a noted concert accordionist, soloist, composer and arranger. Mr. Serry performed extensively in both symphonic orchestras and jazz ensembles as well as on live radio and television broadcasts. His refined poetic artistry gained recognition for the accordion among many prominent conductors and classical musicians of the twentieth century. The requested page title was invalid, empty, an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title, or contained illegal characters. ... Recently Guy Klucevsek has built a reputation on combining folk styles with classical forms and makes extensive use of the free bass. In Europe today, free bass accordion performance has reached a very high level, especially in Finland, Denmark, Russia, Italy and Germany. It isn't uncommon for music conservatories in Europe to consider the free bass accordion an acceptable instrument for serious study. Guy Klucevsek (born February 26, 1947) is an American-born accordionist. ... Many modern and avant-garde composers (such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Mauricio Kagel, and Magnus Lindberg,) have written for the free bass accordion and the instrument is becoming more frequently integrated into new music chamber and improvisation groups. A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Sofia Gubaidulina in Sortavala 1981 Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian София Асгатовна Губайдулина) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian-Tatar composer of deeply religious music. ... Mauricio Kagel (born Buenos Aires, December 24, 1931) is an Argentine composer who has lived in Germany for most of his career. ... Magnus Lindberg (born June 27, 1958) is a Finnish composer. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... [edit] Audio samples Accordion chords Accordian chords-01. ... Chords being played on an accordion — 145 KB Problems listening to the file? See media help. [edit] Related instruments [edit] Squeezeboxes Concertina Bandoneon Melodeon Flutina Wheatstone English concertina, circa 1920 This article is about the musical instrument. ... The bandone n is a free-reed instrument instrument particularly popular in Argentina. ... The terms melodeon and melodion can refer to any of several related musical instruments of the free reed aerophone family: A type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-operated vacuum bellows, and a piano keyboard. ... A flutina The flutina is an early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, which are configured to have the tonic of the scale, on the draw of the bellows. ... [edit] Digital accordions Roland Virtual Accordion The Roland Virtual Accordion is the worlds first electronic instrument to use Physical Behaviour Modelling (PBM) to simulate a wide range of acoustic instruments, including many musettes, handoneon, concertina, and other ethnic accordions and melodions. ... [edit] Other free-reeds Harmonica Harmonium Melodica Sheng Khene A harmonica is a free reed wind instrument. ... A Harmonium is a free-standing musical keyboard instrument similar to a Reed Organ or Pipe Organ. ... A Hohner melodica The melodica is a free-reed instrument similar to the accordion and harmonica. ... The Chinese sheng (Chinese: 笙, Pinyin shēng) is a mouth-blown free reed instrument (the first) consisting essentially of vertical tubes, in the Chinese orchestra. ... A khene player in Isan The khene (also spelled khaen, kaen and khen; Thai: แคน) is a mouth organ whose pipes are connected with a small, hollowed-out wooden reservoir into which air is blown. ... [edit] Famous accordionists Players of the accordion include: Polka stars Lawrence Welk, Angelo DiPippo, Myron Floren and Frankie Yankovic Rock parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic Venezuelan accordionist Roberto Ruscitti, Yann Tiersen Slovenian accordionist and composer Slavko Avsenik. Classical & Concert accordionists Friedrich Lips, Viatcheslav Semjonov, Yuri Shishkin, Mika Vayrynen,John Serry, Sr.,Henry Doktorski. Young Classical accordionist Sergej Osokin, Alexander Selivanov, Basha Slavinska, Josif Puritz, Rade Mijatovic, Dragan Vasiljevic Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket. Rock musicians Garth Hudson of The Band, Jason Webley, Bruce Hornsby, Rob Hyman of The Hooters, Joseph Byrd, John Linnell of They Might Be Giants, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo, Neil Cicierega of Lemon Demon, Billy Joel, Franz Nicolay of The World/Inferno Friendship Society, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Gabby La La, Michel Martin host of new NPR show Rough Cuts, Zach Condon of Beirut, Patrick Wolf,Rick Wright of Pink Floyd who used one on live versions of "Outside the Wall" with Pink Floyd in 1980 and 1981, Gary Brooker of Procol Harum , Keith Emerson, John Evan of Jethro Tull (band), Sheryl Crow, Ryan Jarman of The Cribs, Sweet Jonny V (Arabella) of Analog Arts Ensemble, Jeremy Barnes of Neutral Milk Hotel fame plays accordion with many Eastern European melodies in his band, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (aka Kría Brekkan), formerly of the Icelandic band múm, Jenny Connlee of The Decemberists. Zydeco musicians Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural of Buckwheat Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, John R. Capozello of jazz combo "The Blue Notes" and he played in US Air Force Band,[3] Beau Jocques, Flogging Molly, Kevin Hearn, Jason Webley, Boozoo Chavis, Tom Tierney of Red Sails, Jesse Rifkin and Natalie Mirsky of The Wailing Wall, and also Yuri Lemeshev of the band Gogol Bordello. Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists. Argentine tango composer, Ástor Piazzolla, played the bandoneón, a cousin to the accordion. Basque musician and composer Kepa Junkera plays the trikitixa, a two-row diatonic accordion. Ivan Lenyo plays piano accordion for the ska-punk-reggae-ethnic Ukrainian band, Haydamaky. Cajun musician Steve Riley of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys Tejano musician Flaco Jimenez of the Texas Tornados. James Fearnley of the Pogues should not be overlooked as an agent in the resurgence of popularity of the accordion during the 1980s. Kimmo Pohjonen, experimental and groundbreaking Finnish accordionist. Lisko Mäkinen and Antti Laurila incorporate accordions in metal music in the Finnish band Turisas. Juho "JuhoKusti" Kauppinen of the Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani Those Darn Accordions is an accordion-based rock and polka band. Matthew Thiessen, a member of Relient K, plays the accordion in their song Maybe Its Maybeline. John Lennon played the accordion when he was young. Accordion Beatles Jaleel White's (fictional) character Steve Urkel of Family Matters played the accordion. Drew Carey from The Drew Carey Show uses the accordion on the show. Members Régine Chassagne and Richard Reed Parry of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire play the accordion in both live shows and on albums. Suzie Gagnon plays the accordion with Cirque du Soleil in the touring show Corteo, and previously (for 10 years) with their touring show Alegria. Martyn Jacques of The Tiger Lillies plays accordion in many of the London trio's pieces. Joshua Camp plays accordion in the group, One Ring Zero. Corn Mo plays accordion and keyboards. He plays with numerous bands including .357 Lover Mary Faber, occasional pirate/cross-dresser from the Bloody Jack (novel) by Louis A. Meyer, plays concertina, even though historically they hadn't been invented yet. An example of the "Pirate Accordion Anachronism" that has been perpetuated in popular culture and imagery since at least Rudyard Kipling's 1897 Captains Courageous, (set in 1751). Kipling squeezes in an accordion eighty years before it was invented. Disney's Pirates of the Carribean's theme-park ride had a pirate playing a concertina, and the film repeated this, again putting post-industrial age accordions back into the hands of sixteenth century sea-farers. Some musicians have a love-hate relationship with the accordion. Famous anti-accordion comments include: "A gentleman is a man who can play the piano accordion... and doesn't", "The best way to play the piano accordion is with a pen-knife" (attributed to Christy Moore) and "An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of the assassin" (From Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary). Street musicians in Prague playing a polka Polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre of dance music. ... Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion player, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. ... Myron Floren Myron Floren (born November 5, 1919 in Roslyn, South Dakota - died 23 July 2005 in Los Angeles County, California) is best known as being the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1982. ... Frankie Yankovic (July 15, 1915 - October 14, 1998) was a polka musician of Slovenian origin from Cleveland, Ohio. ... This article is about the musician himself. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Yann Tiersen (born June 23, 1970) is a French Avant-Garde/New Age Musician and composer known for his versatility, minimalist compositions, and virtuosity as a multi-instrumentalist. ... Slavko Avsenik (b. ... Väyrynen on the cover of Finnish sports magazine Urheilulehti Mika Väyrynen (born December 28, 1981 in Eskilstuna, Sweden) is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie. ... The requested page title was invalid, empty, an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title, or contained illegal characters. ... Alexander Selivanov (born 23 March 1971) is a professional ice hockey right winger who has played in the NHL and also in various Euopean leagues. ... Rade Mijatović (born 30 June 1981 in Sombor, SFR Yougoslavia) is a Montenegrin handball goalkeeper. ... Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970), is an American author, screenwriter, and accordionist. ... Lemony Snicket is a pseudonym used by author Daniel Handler in his book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, as well as a character in that series. ... {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Garth Hudson |Img = |Img_capt = |Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist |Birth_name = Eric Garth Hudson |Alias = |Born = August 2, 1937 Windsor, Ontario |Died = |Origin = |Instrument = Organ, piano, keyboards, accordion, saxophone, synthesizer, Melodica Slide Trumpet, [[ |Genre = Rock and roll, rock, pop, Jazz, R&B, country, folk |Occupation = Solo artist, Session musician |Years_active... For other uses, see Band. ... Jason Webley in 2006 at the Oregon Country Fair Jason Webley is a musician who began as a busker, playing accordion in the streets of Seattle, but has since moved in-doors and on stage, playing venues and festivals all across the world. ... Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954 in Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. ... Rob Hyman, singer, musician, composer & producer - member of the band The Hooters Born Robert Hyman in Meriden, Connecticut (The Silver City) on April 24. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Joseph Byrd (almost no one except Columbia Records ever called him Joe) (born December 19, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, raised Tucson, Arizona) was the leader of The United States of America, a notable rock band from the 1960s, as well as the psychedelic group Joe Byrd and the Field... A promotional photograph from the late 1990s. ... This article is about the musical group. ... — Dennis DeYoung (born February 18, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard player and producer best known for being a founding member of the rock band Styx, a tenure which lasted from 196