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Scotland portal; Pages in category "Scottish accordionists" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ...
The accordion was spread across the globe by the waves of Europeans who emigrated to various parts of the world in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The mid-19th-century accordion became a favorite of folk musicians for several reasons: "The new instrument's popularity [among the common masses] was a result of its unique qualities.
The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th century that use free reeds driven by a bellows. An instrument called accordion was first patented in 1829 by Cyrill Demian in Vienna. [notes 4] Demian's instrument bore little resemblance to modern instruments. It only had a left-hand buttonboard, with the right hand simply ...
A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with buttons (or keys) usually on both ends, unlike accordion buttons, which are on the front. The concertina was developed independently in both England and Germany. [1]
Nejc Pačnik (born 1990) – Slovenian accordionist, twice accordion world-champion and accordion teacher Esa Pakarinen (1911–1989) – Finnish accordionist and actor Willard A. "Bill" Palmer (1917–1996) – inventor of the quint system which was later patented by Titano as used in their line of "converter" (or "quint") bass accordions
In North America, both one-row and multi-row instruments are usually simply called accordions. [citation needed] (Historically, the term melodeon was applied to various 19th-century free-reed organs.) To simplify matters and avoid ambiguity, in the remainder of this article the term diatonic button accordion, or DBA, will be used.