The accordion may be suffering a worldwide crisis of confidence and popularity, but its plight is especially severe in China. While other musical instruments have flourished over the past two decades, ...

Polish accordion player Klaudiusz Baran performs at the International Accordion Festival in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily] When accordion player Klaudiusz Baran, the rector of the Fryderyk ...

As a child, Noé Álvarez “wandered the orchards under the spell of corridistas — musicians whose spitfire fingers flew over their three-row accordion keys,” he writes in his memoir, “Accordion Eulogies ...

Accordionist Matthias Matzke has a deep passion for his instrument, and his inspiration goes beyond its sound. "You can really push yourself to the limit, and there's a correlation between muscle ...

The accordion was the first instrument Joan Grauman ever heard. As the daughter of Joseph Tacchetti, an Italian immigrant and an award-winning accordionist, Grauman was handed a musical legacy that ...

Musician and accordion designer Gilberto Reyes met us at the door of Hohner’s national headquarters then located in historic Glen Allen, Virginia. He and I had many mutual friends but had never met in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Magical to listen to and fascinating to watch in action, the accordion takes simple, everyday air and ...

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Is it possible that the most recognisable accordion riff in the history of Hindi film music was not played on an accordion at all? An interview with Vistasp Balsara. There is enough anecdotal evidence ...

André Verchuren, the French "King of the Accordion", who died this week aged 92. Photo: Frederico Rivera/Youtube A musical prodigy, old-school French romantic, and Holocaust survivor - our French Face ...