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Indelibly associated with notions of smoke-filled French cafés and Parisian dance halls, the accordion, with its lively melodies and underlying melancholy, is the quintessential French icon, even though it was invented in Vienna by piano maker Cyril Demian in the 1820s.

free-reed aerophone family The accordion belongs to the free-reed aerophone family. Other instruments in this family include the concertina, harmonica, and bandoneon.

In the late 1800's, Italian immigrants brought the accordion with them to France, and the accordion was widely accepted, and soon was played regularly in cafes and cabarets. Felix Peguri was one of the first Italian immigrants.

accordion, French accordéon, German Akkordeon or Handharmonika, Italian armonica a manticino, free-reed portable musical instrument, consisting of a treble casing with external piano-style keys or buttons and a bass casing (usually with buttons) attached to opposite sides of a hand-operated bellows.

Traditional music styles incorporating the accordion

However, the very first true accordion appearance was in 1822 by a German instrument maker named Christian Friedrich Buschmann who created a keyboard with free vibrating reeds inside it and attached expanding bellows to it which he called a “Hand-Aeoline”.

Among the best Italian accordion brands in this arena are Beltuna, Dallapé, Borsini, Pigini, Scandalli, Fisitalia, and Bugari Armando. Their contributions to the Italian musical heritage are unparalleled.

The 11 Hardest Musical Instruments to Learn

• Violin. The violin is a wooden stringed instrument that's part of a larger family of similar instruments.
• The French Horn.
• The Organ.
• Bagpipes.
• Accordion.
• Oboe.
• Harp.
• Guitar.

The accordion effect in road traffic refers to the typical decelerations and accelerations of a vehicle when the vehicle in front decelerates and accelerates. These fluctuations in speed propagate backwards and typically get bigger and bigger further down the line, resulting in reduced throughput of road traffic.

Today, the accordion is an integral part of most musical cultures worldwide, and one of the major instruments in many different music genres, including the European Polka, the Latino Polka from Mexico, the Argentinian Tango, and the American Cajun Zydeco.

An Accordion Fold refers to a document folding method that uses a series of alternating folds to create multiple panels of a similar size. The parallel pleats formed by the alternating folds resemble the expandable mid-section of an Accordion musical instrument, hence the name "Accordion Fold."

Bayan In 1907 Sterligov invented the first free bass chromatic accordion (and called it the "Bayan", which is now the Russian name for any chromatic accordion), enabling performers to play difficult classical music.