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What is this South African squeezebox?
« on: September 16, 2015, 02:47:53 PM »
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Re: What is this South African squeezebox?
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2015, 03:20:42 PM »
Sounds very much like Anglo concertina played in the Zulu style...here's a clip of Johnny Clegg, a celebrated South African musician, on a similar instrument:
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KZ-ILn7LU
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Re: What is this South African squeezebox?
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2015, 03:57:35 PM »
"squashbox" is, I believe the term
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Re: What is this South African squeezebox?
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2015, 09:28:54 PM »
My old pal Harry Scurfield produced a Cd full of the stuff, called Squashbox.
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Re: What is this South African squeezebox?
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2015, 09:36:55 PM »
York Folk Centre strikes again!
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Re: What is this South African squeezebox?
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2015, 08:44:10 AM »
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They mostly use modified Bastari Anglo concertinas .

See here
http://www.concertina.org/2009/12/05/the-black-concertina-tradition-of-south-africa/
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Re: What is this South African squeezebox?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2015, 10:26:34 AM »
Seems odd that it got labelled as accordion, then - Volans plays the accordion himself and will know the difference. Chinese Whispers in the BL's cataloguing section, perhaps.
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