The Accordionist: Vargas Fred (The Three Evangelists)

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Sometimes in modern pop music the accordion is not actually played, but its sound is heard by use of a MIDI instrument and sampled sound module.

Piano accordions use a musical keyboard similar to a piano, at right angles to the cabinet, the tops of the keys inward toward the bellows. McNeill comes from Canada and is currently located in Sweden. She creates her music using the accordion, guitar, and her vocals on loop.In describing or pricing an accordion, the first factor is size, expressed in number of keys on either side. For a piano type, this could for one example be 37/96, meaning 37 treble keys (three octaves plus one note) on the treble side and 96 bass keys. A second aspect of size is the width of the white keys, which means that even accordions with the same number of keys have keyboards of different lengths, ranging from 14 inches (36cm) for a child's accordion to 19 inches (48cm) for an adult-sized instrument. After size, the price and weight of an accordion is largely dependent on the number of reed ranks on either side, either on a cassotto or not, and to a lesser degree on the number of combinations available through register switches. The next, but important, factor is the quality of the reeds, the highest grade called "a mano" (meaning "hand-made"), the next "tipo a mano" ("like hand-made"), lower grades including "export" and several more. Anthony Galla-Rini (1904–2006) – American accordionist, arranger, composer, conductor, author and teacher

The Accordionist is the third and final book of Fred Vargas’s Three Evangelist series. Fred Vargas, the pseudonym for the French archeologist and four-time CWA International Dagger winner Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, wrote this series early in her career. The Evangelist books were written in 1995, 1996, and 1997 after she had published only the first of her lauded Commissaire Adamsberg series. They have been translated sporadically over the last decade, presumably because the Adamsberg translations have taken precedence. Charles Magnante was one of the most recognizable accordionists in music history. He started the Magnante Quartet which was known as the world’s first professional accordion chamber quartet. The quartet achieved great success but Charles will always be remembered for being the first accordion player to play the instrument for the first time ever in Carnegie Hall. The accordion's basic form is believed to have been invented in Berlin, in 1822, by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, [notes 2] [6] although one instrument was discovered in 2006 that appears to have been built earlier. [notes 3] [7] [8]The bellows is the most recognizable part of the instrument, and the primary means of articulation. The production of sound in an accordion is in direct proportion to the motion of the bellows by the player. In a sense, the role of the bellows can be compared to the role of moving a violin's bow on bowed strings. For a more direct analogy, the bellows can be compared to the role of breathing for a singer. The bellows is located between the right- and left-hand keyboards, and is made from pleated layers of cloth and cardboard, with added leather and metal. [20] It is used to create pressure and vacuum, driving air across the internal reeds and producing sound by their vibrations, applied pressure increases the volume. The Steirische Harmonika, a type of bisonoric diatonic button accordion particular to the Alpine folk music of Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, the German state of Bavaria, and the Italian South Tyrol Discography of American Historical Recordings: University of California Santa Barbara – Audio recordings online of John Serry and the Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Jazz Orchestra 1937–1938 The Stradella bass system, also called standard bass [ citation needed], is arranged in a circle of fifths and uses single buttons for bass notes and additional rows of single buttons for preset major, minor, dominant seventh, and diminished chords. The dominant seventh and diminished chords are three-note chord voicings that omit the fifths of the chords. 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

Pietro Deiro is remembered today as one of the most influential accordionists that ever lived. He was also brothers with Guido Deiro, who was equally a great accordionist in his own right. Throughout his life, Pietro was fully devoted to the development of the repertory for the accordion through his publishing house known as the Pietro Deiro Publications that enjoyed a massive catalog of approximately 10,000 works. Mogens Ellegaard leaving an outstanding and remarkable trace in the world of the accordion. He is viewed as being one of the first accordionists to recognize the need to create an original accordion repertoire. Ellegaard had a significant impact over the direction of the progress of the instrument particularly in the second half of the 20th century.

Webley is a singer-songwriter born in Seattle. He plays a number of instruments, which include the accordion, piano, guitar, and a makeshift percussion instrument made with a vodka bottle filled with coins from different places around the world. He performs both on a solo capacity and as part of a band. The accordion made its cinematic debut in 1888. In the same year, the accordion found its way in Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince’s ‘Accordion Player.’ Gossip of the Day". The Evening News. No.4117. Queensland, Australia. 24 January 1935. p.6 . Retrieved 3 December 2018– via National Library of Australia. Ellegaard is a Danish accordion player, known as the “Father of Classical Accordion”. His journey with the instrument started at eight years old, and evolved towards him becoming a performer in various chamber music concerts, and a soloist with orchestras such as the London’s Royal Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, and the Toronto Symphony. In the 1970s, he founded a department in The Royal Danish Academy of Music for accordion performances and study, after which he became an accordion professor in just a few years. He released the “Contemporary Danish Accordion Music” CD in 1987. Various hybrid accordions have been created between instruments of different buttonboards and actions. Many remain curiosities – only a few have remained in use: