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Inspired by early Jamaican Ska. Travel with us to the Caribbean ...

https://youtu.be/sW5aGLfTURE

#Accordion #Guitar #Tuba #Drums #TheMadMaggies #Clarinet #AltoSax
#Trombone
#Music #WomenComposers #Bass

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Happy squeezebox birthday to @nicheinterests cofounder — in 2006 — of @accordionnoir ❤️‍🔥🪗

When asked if he would cohost an #accordion radio show he said the idea was “preposterous!”

And immediately signed on (for twenty years and counting)

It’s also #Blues legend Muddy Waters’ birthday, who played accordion as a kid

So here’s Muddy Waters with members of The Band, including Garth Hudson on 🪗 harkening back to his childhood
https://youtu.be/eKSVCpSiiBo

Caldonia - The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (1975)

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@datum
We haven’t got that one yet

But added to our #AccordionBandcamp recommendations

And the $10,000 #accordion wishlist I’ve got on my #bandcamp account

I write artists asking for music to play on @accordionnoir radio but even that is overwhelming 🌊 🪗😓

For some reason PeerTube has absolutely loads of accordion accounts (i.e. people playing the musical instrument 🪗 ).

I mean it's great to see musicians on PeerTube, but it's just so random 😁

#Accordion #PeerTube

The Albion Band’s “Lark Rise to Candleford” was one of my childhood exposures to folk, and I still have my parents vinyl of it. Listening to it again, I had forgotten quite how good it is. Though I appreciate different tracks to I used to, I think that uplifting opening is why I have such affection for “Brighton Camp”.

Also you can play a guessing game each time you hear a melodeon: is that John Kirkpatrick or John Tams playing it? (What, you didn’t know that Tams could play the box as well as singing, fiddling etc? Shame!)

#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

@carkner
Wonder if those are the mellower brass reeds Josh Horowitz often talks about and plays in his restored 100 year old #accordion?

for example these two tracks by unidentified Greek orchestras in Germany, recorded before WWI, not sure if they're both the same musicians or not. very prominent #accordion with a sound you'd never hear today
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000747381
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000747380

#78rpm #GreekMusic

@CharlieMcHenry
Want #accordion mystery #MusicHistory origin stories?

Watch for Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (presented his “speech machine” in St Petersburg in 1780)

And the unfortunately multiple-spelling’ed Franz Kirsnick / Kirshnick, Kirschnick, Kirschnigk

Another German in Copenhagen, #organ builder who maybe assisted Kratzenstein, sold organs with the “western” free reeds that come down to us)

https://www.hetorgel.nl/en/2011/01/e2003-04e/
(Pics of old organ free reeds!)

@CharlieMcHenry
And (not to jack your thread, but to add further #MusicTrivia)

It was #organ builders who added crucial differences to 3,000 year old free reed designs imported from Asia

These “westernized” free reed organs then developed into everything from the #harmonica, #harmonium and #accordion

Nobody’s quite sure, but it might have been one of a few German guys working in Copenhagen who showed them off in Saint Petersburg (#WorldMusic 1780)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20551940.2020.1794648 🪗