Accordion
Accordions are members of a family of musical instruments known as free-reed aerophones which combine both a Diskant and Basso continuo voice in a single instrument through the use of a keyboard and a bellows. Professionals of the accordion are referred to as Accordionists.
Quotes
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[edit]- The accordion fun? ....Sometimes. Not all the time. I find that it can be a frustrating instrument. The coordination involved is extraordinary and sometimes that coordination doesn't happen.... The use of the left hand and at the same time getting the dynamic range, the volume, is quite difficult. Other times it is fun if you're working with other musicians and you're doin' pieces that you really enjoy. It can really be fun!
- Robert Davine Accordionist Robert Davine: A Conversation With Bruce Duffie (1992), WNIB Radio, Chicago
- There are instruments known as free-bass instruments, or sometimes called the bassetti, where you have totally complete single pitches, simply like you would in the right hand, and you form your own chords. And you have a greater range in the left hand, some three to four-and-a-half octaves.
- Robert Davine Accordionist Robert Davine: A Conversation With Bruce Duffie (1992), WNIB Radio, Chicago
- Since the accordion has so many attributes that are conducive to chamber music, it is particularly suitable for this medium of expression. In essence, the accordion has all of the prerequisites essential to small ensemble involvement: sustaining power, dynamic sensitivity, articulated response, timbre, and texture variance, and compatibility of sound with string and wind instruments.
- Robert Davine "The accordion As A Chamber Instrument" Accord Magazine (1979)
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[edit]- Seventy-five percent of everything done throughout your life is the result of habit. Think of it! The way you walk, the way you eat, the clothes you wear, the places you go and...last, but not least, the way you play your accordion.
- John Serry Sr "Training: Reading From Piano Scores. Stumbling Cues. Avoid Time Wasters", Accordion News, 10 December 1935, P. 21
- Being a complete instrument in itself it has no equal as an entertainment medium in the home, outdoors, or wherever people gather to enjoy good fellowship. During the past 15 years or so the accordion has risen to the top of the field as a best seller in the musical instrument market. At present, it threatens to replace the piano as the medium through which Junior or little sister are initiated to the delights and sometimes pains of a musical education.
- John Serry Sr, "What's Wrong with the Accordion", Accordion World (January 1947) p. 8 John Serry as quoted in American Music Vol. 25 No. 2 (Summer 2007) "Searching for Rockordion: the Changing Image of the Accordion in America. by Marion S. Jacobson. p. 221 on JSTOR.org
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Accordion on Wikipedia
