#accordionrevolution — Public Fediverse posts
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@uxMark @accordionnoir
Posting this got me to at least email that record company to beg for promos of their two new #PaulineOliveros recordingsWe’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
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@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”
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@tuftyindigo
I keep telling Jared to write a book with his research on the Black #accordionHe’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 🙄
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@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 ❤️🔥🪗
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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
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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 🏴☠️🚫 🪗
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@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
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@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 🎸
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“Great Badges!!”
For the #accordion crowd who refuses to be pro-fascist
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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/wdGuGaNDH6QI 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 📚
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@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
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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
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@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/
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@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
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@OccasionalDucks
I’m sure they’d appreciate the input to write something about Canadian accordion makersI’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.comhttps://mnemo.qc.ca/bulletin-mnemo/article/l-implantation-de-l-accordeon-au
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@OccasionalDucks
That’d be some mighty niche Canadiana for accordion historians only therePretty sure the family name is mentioned in some articles on Canadian accordion making by writers I cite in my #AccordionRevolution book
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Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week 🌞 🪗
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com -
@ColesStreetPothole @kathimmel @twoowls73 @moonrabbit
The #AccordionRevolution sends solidarity for this initiative ❤️🔥🪗✊🏽 -
@SimonLandmine
I did a section in my #AccordionRevolution book I called “The Modern Accordionist’s Guide to Laurence Welk” after a joke I saw on an old King Crimson record
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@quietsnail @douglaswelch
The Cylinder Archive invited me to research their #accordion recordings back in 2009 or soTen years later that project helped inspire my #AccordionRevolution book
https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/accordion.phpI don’t know if I ever thought to look at their harmonica recordings for hidden squeezeboxes, but it would be a common naming confusion: harmonica/harmonika/many spellings of accordion accordeon acordeón/melodeon (melodeon was a reed organ harmonium in the US)
🪗 #emoji proposal:
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CW: Complaining about scientific papers
@sus
I’m outside the academy so wrote and polished my book #AccordionRevolution for readers, but was happy to realize I could export and digitally publish a plaintext version with 2,000 footnotes and a 1,200 item bibliographyWhy leave anything out that might be useful someday? I footnoted pretty much every paragraph in the text, often multiple times. And now someone can dig through that if they really want
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/accordion-revolution-the-annotated-version/ -
@adtothebone @UkuleleG3orge
I thought I mentioned the #Pianaccord in my #AccordionRevolution history of the #accordion 📚 but I guess not?I may have only learned about them when I was researching electronic Accordions for a talk after I published
That was fun 🤩 ❤️🔥🪗
Here’s a few of the hits from that including ones from #farfisa (started as an accordion company) and #Hohner (who made millions of #harmonicas 😬 accordions and #keyboards like the #clavinet)
But I really want a #Multimonica!
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Ballpoint: a Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention That Changed the Way We Write ✍️
By György MoldovaI’m a fan of “Object History” following everyday things and social changes through the development of technologies — like my own #AccordionRevolution
So this history of the development and financing of the first successful #BallpointPen was like a beach book 🏖️ that I took on the train to visit my parents 😎
Review in #MacLeans
https://macleans.ca/culture/books/ballpoint-a-tale-of-genius-and-grit-perilous-times-and-the-invention-that-changed-the-way-we-write/amp/
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@mcv @skybrian @thepoliticalcat @accordionnoir @SrRochardBunson @geschichtenundmeer @Phil
I swiped the name of the pre-#blues #CountryMusic and #FolkRevival section of my #AccordionRevolution book from David Eugene Edwards #16horsepower tune -
#ChrisStrachwitz was rare among American folk revivalists for appreciating the #Accordion before it had it's first "revival" in the 1980s (led by artists he helped bring to attention)
He laughed telling me how much #AlanLomax hated accordions (Mentioned in my #AccordionRevolution 🪗📚🤓)
Thanks to clearer ears like Chris’s, we have reissues like these of #CliftonChenier
https://folkways.si.edu/clifton-chenier/louisiana-blues-and-zydeco/2005-edition ❤️🔥🪗
#Folkways #Zydeco #Louisiana #BlackMusic #Creole @Pipistrelle -
@accordionnoir @mwichary
Whew 😅 Big email day! 📧As I sent my #AccordionRevolution email out, I received one saying the #Dygma Defy keyboard I waited Two Years for is on its way!
In my email update I mentioned my hand tremor #disability and need for ergonomic keyboards
Also credited Dygman who helped translate the “This Machine Irritates Fascists“ buttons into Spanish ✊🏿
You can read my email newsletter and check out a few photos of alien 👾 #MechanicalKeyboards at:
https://mailchi.mp/613dbf9e1088/accordion-revolution-book-club-17-off-sale?e=e08935e81f -
@accordionnoir
I was just writing about the #Dygma ergonomic keyboard I useI’ve probably got enough comments on their forums for another book now 🤔
Others have better #MechanicalKeyboard histories than me though
🤓 Looking forward to @mwichary’s massive Shift Happens this winter!
We had a long chat about #accordion keyboards when I was finishing #AccordionRevolution
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@jredlund @SrRochardBunson
There’s a new platform being set up by #libraries as an alternative to #Amazon and the Overdrive #ebook app (which just got bought out by another vulture capitalist corporation)#BRIET Looks interesting, I signed up so my #AccordionRevolution ebook should be available to librarians soon 🔜 📚
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Bruce unexpectedly makes an #AccordionRevolution book sale by rambling way off-topic on the forums for the #ErgoKeyboard I use! ❤️🔥🪗
Who knew a #Dygma fan from Finland would read my #bluegrass history joke and buy my #accordion book?
Finland’s Steve 'N' Seagulls old time accordion bluegrass band may give the connection some interesting background? 🤠
Nothing Else Matters
https://youtu.be/3JFb_aOn6rcThe bluegrass section in the Country Music 🪗 chapter of my book is 👍🏼
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@dancarkner @accordionnoir
It was hard to find some of the best selling #LawrenceWelk books I wanted for my #AccordionRevolution 📚 research because none of the used book shops saved them 🤷🏻♂️Ubiquity breeds rarity?
#bookstodon #polka 🪗 #accordion -
#Polka cameo! 🪗 In @mwichary's tribute about his favorite candidate for the "hardest-working unknown font in history", Gorton
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/Almost #NonAccordionContent But the tiny polka name-tag hidden in there
Marcin's history of #keyboards made his work dear to my #AccordionRevolution heart 🪗
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#Polka cameo! 🪗 In @mwichary's tribute about his favorite candidate for the "hardest-working unknown font in history", Gorton
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/Almost #NonAccordionContent But the tiny polka name-tag hidden in there
Marcin's history of #keyboards made his work dear to my #AccordionRevolution heart 🪗
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#Polka cameo! 🪗 In @mwichary's tribute about his favorite candidate for the "hardest-working unknown font in history", Gorton
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/Almost #NonAccordionContent But the tiny polka name-tag hidden in there
Marcin's history of #keyboards made his work dear to my #AccordionRevolution heart 🪗
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#Polka cameo! 🪗 In @mwichary's tribute about his favorite candidate for the "hardest-working unknown font in history", Gorton
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/Almost #NonAccordionContent But the tiny polka name-tag hidden in there
Marcin's history of #keyboards made his work dear to my #AccordionRevolution heart 🪗
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#Polka cameo! 🪗 In @mwichary's tribute about his favorite candidate for the "hardest-working unknown font in history", Gorton
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/Almost #NonAccordionContent But the tiny polka name-tag hidden in there
Marcin's history of #keyboards made his work dear to my #AccordionRevolution heart 🪗
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@Caxton @dancarkner @accordionnoir
I credited the #VancouverPublicLibrary and the international #InterLibraryLoan system as my research assistant in the acknowledgments of my #AccordionRevolution book
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@cemmy410
Turns out I misread my form and the #Nunavut order was for Two copies of my #AccordionRevolution book! 📚One for the orderer and one for her mom, who’d given her an #accordion she’d started lessons on 🥰
So I’m fixing my error and sending that extra book for her mom on #InternationalWomansDay ❤️🔥🪗
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Big #AccordionRevolution ❤️🔥🪗 📚 order for a whole family of accordionists [in a secret US city] 🎁
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com“This Machine Irritates Fascists!”
#Accordion #books #musicHistory #Antifa #WoodieGuthrie #FolkMusic
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Accordion Revolution: A People's History of the Accordion is #2 on the list of #Accordion books you can get Free Shipping on (in the US) today!
Right under #WeirdAl drummer 🥁 Bermuda Swartz's new photo book, and #AnnieProulx 🪗!
https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=accordion#AccordionRevolution #Books #MusicHistory #Music #AccordionMastodon
I'm not big on #BlackFriday, but heard about this deal and want to pass it on. ❤️🔥🪗
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@mcv @skybrian @thepoliticalcat @accordionnoir @SrRochardBunson @geschichtenundmeer @Phil
I swiped the name of the pre-#blues #CountryMusic and #FolkRevival section of my #AccordionRevolution book from David Eugene Edwards #16horsepower tune -
@mcv @skybrian @thepoliticalcat @accordionnoir @SrRochardBunson @geschichtenundmeer @Phil
I swiped the name of the pre-#blues #CountryMusic and #FolkRevival section of my #AccordionRevolution book from David Eugene Edwards #16horsepower tune -
@mcv @skybrian @thepoliticalcat @accordionnoir @SrRochardBunson @geschichtenundmeer @Phil
I swiped the name of the pre-#blues #CountryMusic and #FolkRevival section of my #AccordionRevolution book from David Eugene Edwards #16horsepower tune -
@mcv @skybrian @thepoliticalcat @accordionnoir @SrRochardBunson @geschichtenundmeer @Phil
I swiped the name of the pre-#blues #CountryMusic and #FolkRevival section of my #AccordionRevolution book from David Eugene Edwards #16horsepower tune -
Last #AccordionRevolution Canadian sale of October!
Canada Post has a deal until Tuesday Oct 31 🎃
So it's 50% off on everything (except shirts) in my #Accordion 🪗 swag shop until #Halloween 👻
Click: https://accordionbruce.etsy.com?coupon=YESIAMCANADIAN
Or use 🦫 code: YESIAMCANADIAN when you pick out:
Pins, buttons, and Annotated 🪗 flash-drives!
And up to 2 copies of one of the best Accordion History books #Nirvana's bass-player #KristNovoselic has ever endorsed 🎸
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@youseeatortoise @AccordionBruce
It didn’t make it into many print copies but I stopped production of my #AccordionRevolution to fix this guy’s birthdateAnthony Galla-Rini
1904–2006
Professional musician for 98 yearsStarted in vaudeville, recorded on 78 RPM records, film soundtracks, #vinyl LPs, Tapes, CDs, and finished his career video conferencing
I knew I had to correct his birthday because #accordion geeks would notice and complain
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My #AccordionRevolution shop is back online after I figured the Trump #tariffs won’t stop being chaotic anytime soon
Canadian and International orders should be great
Everything’s Canadian except I’ve got one fiery enamel pin made in China ❤️🔥🪗
If anybody in the States has questions they can ask him to clarifyhttps://accordionbruce.etsy.com/
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#Accordion #InternationalAccordionDay
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Found this fabulous history of the bass guitar 🎸 that is almost exactly the same format, size and style as my #AccordionRevolution book but for the #bass
It’s written for the lay person, has little sections so you can read it straight through or in little chunks, has black-and-white pictures to break up the text 📖
Feels like getting to read my own book for the first time, without having to write it
Very cool 😎