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Gary P Chapin

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Accordion in the 19th Century (Free Download)
« on: March 03, 2013, 08:32:14 PM »

An amazing book by Gorka Hermosa, available free as a PDF.  Geek out, my friends.

http://accordeonaire.blogspot.com/2013/03/accordion-in-19th-century-free-download.html
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Re: Accordion in the 19th Century (Free Download)
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2013, 02:50:54 AM »

This quote from page 35 gives an interesting overview:

"During the 19th c., learned music circles ignored the diatonic accordion almost
completely. The concertina, thanks to Giulio Regondi principally, had significant
acceptance in England between 1840 and 1860 and for this, early romantic-style
compositions,with ballroom music reminiscences,were written. But the best accepted
free reed instrument was certainly the harmonium, with a huge extremely interesting
repertoire."
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Re: Accordion in the 19th Century (Free Download)
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2013, 08:33:39 AM »

Great balls of fire! This is a spectacularly well researched piece of work. It'll take some digesting, and a quarter on the way in I'm reassured that what I'd been told, and repeated here about early origins in Vienna has some veracity.

But it's going to cut across some of the myths about early development of our instrument and I suspect a few corrections will be in order. I wonder what it'll say about the British D/G?

Thanks for this gem, Gary. They do say that eating your own words can be an excellent diet. Let's tuck in .. :P
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