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Tula garmon (Russian: тульская гармонь, семиклапанка) was the first Russian accordion, which began to be manufactured since the 1830s. It had five or seven buttons on the right keyboard, and like in the most Western diatonic accordions it produced different sounds on pull and push.
A La Vieille Russie is a New York City-based antique store specializing in European and American antique jewelry, Imperial Russian works of art, 18th-century European gold snuff boxes, and objets d’art. [1] Founded in Kiev in 1851, A La Vieille Russie later relocated to Paris around 1920 and to New York thereafter.
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The first chromatic piano-like accordions in Russia were built in 1871 by Nikolay Ivanovich Beloborodov. [21] In 1907, St. Petersburg master accordion maker V. S. Sterlingov created a chromatic button accordion for the player Ya. F. Orlandskiy-Titarenko featuring 52 melody keys and 72 chords of the Stradella bass system.
Bayan; Classification: Free-reed aerophone: Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 412.132: Playing range; Right-hand manual: The Russian bayan and chromatic button accordions have a much greater right-hand range in scientific pitch notation than accordions with a piano keyboard: five octaves, plus a minor third (written range = E2-G7, actual range = E1-C#8).
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 ...
George Antheil—of Ballet mécanique fame: Accordion Dance for accordion and orchestra (1951) John Serry, Sr.: American Rhapsody (1955), to name a few. [32] [33] In 1937 the first accordion concerto was written and played in Russia. Other notable classical accordion performers include Pauline Oliveros, and Rob Reich of the Tin Hat Trio.
Khromka (Russian: хро́мка, khromka) is a type of Russian garmon (unisonoric diatonic button accordion). It is the most widespread variant in Russia and in the former USSR . Nearly all Russian garmons made since the mid of the 20th century are khromkas.