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@mrowster
One of my relentless laments about our @accordionnoir radio program is my lack skills in about ten different languages that would open up squeezebox traditions from around the world 🌍
I know a bit of Spanish and wrote a chapter about some classic acts for my #AccordionRevolution book
But am woefully unaware of more recent artists 😔
Electronic Accordion History
This was a virtual presentation for the annual Electronic Accordion convention in 2020
Basically an addendum to my #AccordionRevolution history book with “borrowed” pics and video clips
Some people tried hard to electrify accordions
The most famous result is the non-squeezebox FARFISA organ used in a zillion garage bands. “FAbbriche Riunite di FISArmoniche” (United Accordion Factories)
https://youtu.be/AEdnJmrbCDc
#accordion #MusicHistory
@counivers
@giflian
I included that in the “Young Accordionist’s Guide to Laurence Welk” pages of my #AccordionRevolution book
Were you aware of…
Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day, yesterday July 31st?
Or did you miss it like I did?
I was busy all day, turning in a book proposal to re-launch my #AccordionRevolution book with an audiobook version
So at least I was observing I guess
😊 @nicheinterests
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/uncommon-instrument-awareness-day/
@ai6yr
I listen to #accordion music from all eras to preview for our @accordionnoir radio show
When I was writing my #AccordionRevolution history of the 🪗 I felt like I was listening to older and older music
Going through pop-music backwards, getting less and less up to date on the present, but more and more knowledgeable on the past
That was odd
Insert unsuccessful #PhonographEmoji
The Accordionist (French: L’accordéoniste) is a 1911 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso
(Working on a book proposal to resubmit my #AccordionRevolution for a 2nd edition and got distracted by this classic painting)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accordionist
#Accordion #painting #picasso
Decided I could only ship stickers to the United States because of the tariff chaos that guy is illegally imposing
Only the Congress has the power to impose #tariffs)
You can still order my #AccordionRevolution book from bookstores though
❤️🔥🪗
And there’s these timely #accordion stickers
https://accordionbruce.etsy.com/listing/1803010565 🗳️
@carkner
I got one book like that through #InterLibraryLoan while researching my #AccordionRevolution book
An incredibly detailed and history of seemingly every appearance of Black people on early radio and TV
They handed this physically huge 1,000 page, $500 6–pound book over to me with trepidation and told me to be very careful with it 😅
Swingin' on the Etherwaves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Programming, 1925-1955
by Henry T. Sampson
#BlackHistory
@famousblueben
If only Alan Lomax hadn’t hated the #accordion 🪗 😭
@graham.dunning @furiousgreencloud
Footnotes to add to my #AccordionRevolution book
“All Chamberlin [#Mellotron’s inspiration] recordings were contracted and performed by members of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra 🪗 in the late ’40s and throughout the 1950s
“Welk was impressed with the idea of a tape playback instrument and offered to fund its manufacture if it was called a ‘Welk’ machine. Chamberlin refused Welk’s offer”
Would’ve changed the tone of #ProgRock
https://daelectronicmusic.wordpress.com/history/chamberlin-and-mellotron/
#accordion
@uxMark @accordionnoir
Posting this got me to at least email that record company to beg for promos of their two new #PaulineOliveros recordings
We’ve played many of her works over the last twenty years including this show that includes one from her accordion teacher Bill Palmer’s ensemble
Of Palmer & Hughes 🪗 📖 fame!
Palmer comes up in my #AccordionRevolution book
The old guard weren’t very interested in his urging them to take rock and roll seriously
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2016-11-30-pauline-oliveros-tribute-with-soundscape-radio/
@ProcessParsnip @catsalad
It’s featured near the beginning of my #AccordionRevolution book
@paul_ipv6 @molenaar @skyfire747 @mykie @why2025camp
Through my #AccordionRevolution history project, over and over new technology drove shifts in instrumentation more than audiences taste or “desire to hear new things”
Musicians want to be heard and get paid (or the equivalent 🥖)
So whatever made the music 1. Easier to play, 2. Louder, and 3. Cheaper, almost always “caught on with audiences”
@tuftyindigo
I keep telling Jared to write a book with his research on the Black #accordion
He’s looked for a publisher with no luck 😤
The “African Americans Played Accordions Before they Played the Blues” chapter in my #AccordionRevolution book is basically stolen from his work
Having read more history of #blues antecedents before the guitar I’d add more footnotes to that clever chapter title than it already has, but there it is 🙄
@venya
There’s a fine recommendation!
You could get my book #AccordionRevolution which was not written by AI and will teach you more than that article
http://AccordionRevolution.com
Or since it’s #BandcampFriday grab some of our hundreds of #AccordionBandcamp recommendations and support living artists ❤️🔥🪗
History of the Electronic Accordion, Bruce Triggs, Gr8IDEAS Presentation, 2020
Garage band favorite Farfisa was an #accordion company ❤️🔥
Can’t recall if I mention all the wacky keyboards that accordion-maker Hohner made, like Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” clavinet
Much left out of my #AccordionRevolution book ⚡️🪗
Did this pretty-tight hour long talk, with lots of stolen graphics, during Covid lockdown
https://youtu.be/AEdnJmrbCDc
#ElectronicMusic #Synth #Keyboard
The artist Jeremy Wakefield was kind enough to let me use his 16 Horsepower Chemnitzer #concertina illustration in the “Pirates Never Played #Accordion Because It Hadn’t Been Invented Yet” section of my #AccordionRevolution book 🏴☠️🚫 🪗
http://AccordionRevolution.com
@toddsundsted
Yes, there was a while around 2000–2010 when the 🪗 was on its last big “uprising”
When our show started (2006) and I began writing my #AccordionRevolution book that ended up taking until 2019 😅
The #Decemberists hit #1 in 2010🏆 Then what happened? Not sure.
We’re maybe due for a renewal in time for the 2029 bicentennial of the 1829 patenting of the first instrument called #accordion
@paul_ipv6 @Amgine @Moss @accordionnoir
Highly recommend:
The Bastard Instrument
A Cultural History of the Electric Bass
by Wright, Brian F.
Remarkably similar in style and format to my #AccordionRevolution book
Readable text, good stories, many unheard of but memorable players
Focusing on the social changes around the instrument and in music
Add in some pictures and break into bite-sized chunks
Was there a seminar on readable music history books for disreputable instruments?
Loved it 🎸
“Great Badges!!”
For the #accordion crowd who refuses to be pro-fascist
Obligatory reminder that pirates with accordions are even less historical than #TalkLikeAPirateDay 🏴☠️
The “pirate accent” dates to Robert Newton’s movies (Treasure Island (1950) and Blackbeard (1952)
https://youtu.be/wdGuGaNDH6Q
I haven’t tracked down when movie pirates started playing squeezebox
Real pirates never played #accordion or their cousins the little concertina, because they hadn’t been invented yet in the 16–1700s
See my #AccordionRevolution book for details 📚
@Geoffberner @doctroid
He would be famous if the #AccordionRevolution ever came
I just ran out of the 🤠🪗 postcards I send out with my books and was going to order a fifth printing of the books themselves
But if I can't sell them to the US I don't know if I should
Maybe. But it will take me many years to sell them that's for sure
#AccordionRevolution #accordion
http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com
Trump's ending of de minimis exemptions (which would apply 35% taxes to shipments from Canada less than $800)
Means I might have to stop shipping #Accordion swag to customers in the US after August 1
Or at least it will get much more expensive/burdensome/complicated
So if you want any #AccordionRevolution books, stickers, or buttons, you might want to order in the next week or so
http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com
@andijah
Happy reading Andrea! 📚🪗
If you didn’t get the link to the digital Annotated Edition of #AccordionRevolution and you want 2,000 footnotes and 1,900 obsessive bibliographical items (to supplement the much more select recommended bibliography in the back of the book)
You can find it here 🔗
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/accordion-revolution-the-annotated-version/
#accordion
@tuftyindigo @keys
Can you play it enough to tell if the bass is right side up though? 🌏
One palm shifter I recall maybe had a mechanism you accessed by taking off a plate on the back of the keyboard? 🤔 🪗
There was a lever that cocked back and forth that was pretty easy to unstick or at least see what was wrong
I have a pile of broken antique accordions, none of which I have fixed or know how to play
Researching for #AccordionRevolution 📚 was enough and @accordionnoir had a schedule
@OccasionalDucks
I’m sure they’d appreciate the input to write something about Canadian accordion makers
I’m quite partial to the earliest fragments of history I could find
With nuns ordering them for their convent, and yes, the Gagné family makes an appearance! ❤️🔥🪗
(Thought I remembered that)
http://AccordionRevolution.com
https://mnemo.qc.ca/bulletin-mnemo/article/l-implantation-de-l-accordeon-au
@OccasionalDucks
That’d be some mighty niche Canadiana for accordion historians only there
Pretty sure the family name is mentioned in some articles on Canadian accordion making by writers I cite in my #AccordionRevolution book
Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week 🌞 🪗
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com