February 7, 2005 The steady march of digital technology continues to sweep all before it and the smallest member of the free-reed musical instrument family, the accordion, looks set to be next with ...

If you’ve seen live music in Portland over the last couple of decades there’s a decent chance you’ve seen Jenny Conlee on the accordion or keyboard. She may be best known for her work with The ...

Frankie Spetich could have chosen the Americanized piano accordion as his instrument, but instead he went for its gypsy cousin, the button box. Those who can’t distinguish between the two instruments ...

SHIVAMOGGA: Go back to the 1960s, and people of that era may remember legendary Raj Kapoor carrying a bulky instrument in the Hindi film Sangam and crooning the song ‘Har dil jo pyar karega’. Piano ...

Accordionist Tom Torriglia of San Francisco has declared June to be "International Accordion Awareness Month." He joins New Hampshire accordionist Gary Sredzienski in trying to explain why they love ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's a song in the making, the story of my piano accordion, pornography and Paul Hutchinson, one of the world's leading accordion ...

Across the street from a wine lounge and a gourmet sausage spot on Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village, a small red-and-white neon sign reads: "DAVE'S ACCORDION SCHOOL." Inside, black and tan cases ...

Ah yes, the 555 piano project. Be it the Atari Punk Console, or some other 555 based synthesizer, Hackers just love to hear what the 555 can do when attached to a few passives and a speaker. It’s a ...

Janis Siegel has been a member of the seminal vocal group The Manhattan Transfer for 30-plus years. Along the way, the group has recorded more than 20 albums and collected eight Grammy Awards, and ...

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 ...

Kay Sullivan is not sure why the accordion became so popular in Toowoomba in the early 1960s. "Perhaps it's like the Sound of Music up on the mountain top, she said. "Maybe it was the mountain air." ...