“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.” Whether or not you agree with Tom Waits on this point, the box-shaped musical instrument invented in Vienna has become such an ...

Ah, the homegrown heroes. Emerging from South Texas, tejano and conjunto often get jumbled into the same category, so we’ll break them down first by instrument. Conjunto is played with the accordion, ...

The accordion is not a punchline. Between bad jokes (What's the difference between an onion and an accordion? People cry when they chop up onions), double entendres (as the Who sang, "Mama's got a ...

MOST people think of the accordion, if they think of it at all, as a social instrument, wheezing out polkas and folk tunes. The sound of it brings to mind French cafes, Mexican plazas, German beer ...

Among free-reed instruments with bellows, the accordion was developed in the early 1800s alongside others like the concertina, bandoneon, and harmonium. Google Doodle celebrated the ‘accordion’ on ...

Hundreds of musicians hoisted their accordions in the St. John's air Saturday to celebrate the setting of an unusual record: the greatest number of people to play accordions simultaneously. Accordion ...

Nearly 1,000 people played their accordions in St. John's on Saturday, setting a world record for the largest crowd to play the instrument simultaneously. Organizers, who needed 645 people to set the ...

The traditional French accordion is no more, as Maugein, one of France’s oldest accordion manufacturers, closes shop after 105 years. The owner blames Chinese competition and Covid for the firm’s ...