You never quite know what you’ll run into at a North Star Auction — The Philharmonic Concert Master DA-MAR Music System (Reed Organ) — In simple terms, it’s an accordion without a squeezer.
#vintage #antique #history #music #musical #instrument #musicalinstrument #piano #keyboard #organ #reedorgan #accordion #polkatime #northdakota #auction
@adtothebone
Nice #ChordOrgan! The wood body makes that a pretty high-class number in the species, at least for the little ones like that
They’re so charming 😍🪗
Come in all sorts of wacky varieties
(bonus #Accorgan [edit: #Pianaccord] = #Accordion / #ReedOrgan cross!
@adtothebone
I did some #chordOrgan threads on Twitter which might have featured more #Accorgan [edit: #Pianaccord] photos (did I spell it right, with two c’s?) there’s a patent. They were made by this Accordion company in Denver
Came out right as the accordion peaked in the mid 50s, so never had a chance against the rise of amplification
@UkuleleG3orge has one! And says it’s quite short to fit his knees under🦵
@adtothebone @UkuleleG3orge
I was wrong!
It was called a #Pianaccord! or a “Console #Accordion”
(The Accorgan was a brand name for one of electronic organ accordions that tried to compete in the sixties+)
Here’s the patent from 1951 where Ernest Bonvicini just called it an “Accordion”
Really? Product differentiation anyone?
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/63/55/c7/fa159ff576c8f9/USD165321.pdf
@adtothebone @UkuleleG3orge
I thought I mentioned the #Pianaccord in my #AccordionRevolution history of the #accordion 📚 but I guess not?
I may have only learned about them when I was researching electronic Accordions for a talk after I published
That was fun 🤩 ❤️🔥🪗
Here’s a few of the hits from that including ones from #farfisa (started as an accordion company) and #Hohner (who made millions of #harmonicas 😬 accordions and #keyboards like the #clavinet)
But I really want a #Multimonica!
@UkuleleG3orge @adtothebone
That’s the Finnish C system. They bumped the rows down one because…who needs standardization?
Results of beautiful #organology chaos! #AccordionHistorion 🤓
Which made it hard for #accordion manufacturers wanting to move towards mass production in the 1920s or so
That’s when American dealers started pushing immigrants to play the new-fangled #piano accordion 🪗
It was a generic homogenizer of the stew of immigrant button systems
One manual to rule them all
@UkuleleG3orge @adtothebone
That’s how you recognize a #Finnish #Accordion player
This group #SawtoothDuo is playing here in vancouver in June, and I said, hey that guy’s from #Finland 🇫🇮
https://sawtoothduo.ca
#Korpiklaani has been putting on a good #FolkMetal show for years
https://korpiklaani.com
#NettaSkog has played #Metal and is now with #CirqueDuSoleil! 🎪
https://www.nettaskog.com/ #circus
@adtothebone @mzdt @UkuleleG3orge
Is it a take off of another ad? I’m not familiar with an earlier referent
I haven’t seen an original of this #Cordovox ad or where it appeared. I had it from a fine amateur historian who posted their work online as a pdf which is gone, but the link is at: https://web.archive.org/web/20200927172648/http://caffetrieste.com/Abrief.pdf
@adtothebone @mzdt @UkuleleG3orge
But I don’t know if the @internetarchive stores the full PDF there?
It would be a pity if they do not. Because it is a mighty piece of quirky #Accordion scholarship
@adtothebone @mzdt @UkuleleG3orge they didn’t work on my phone, but definitely a good number of those @internetarchive
backups of the wonderful obsessive #cordovox #accordion 🪗 history work great on desktop ✅
We’ll worth a look to go with your original ad!
@johnl @adtothebone @UkuleleG3orge
Wonderful!
There’s a marvelous book Classic Keys:
#Keyboard Sounds That Launched Rock Music. By Alan S. Lenhoff I found at the #Vancouver #VPL #Library
It’s got chapters and fab photos of #Hammond #Hohner #Farfisa #Wurlitzer #Vox #Gibson #Rhodes #Mellotron #Yamaha and #Moog machines 🎛️🎚️🎹🎶
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/book-review-classic-keys-keyboard-sounds-launched-rock-music?amp
#piano #rock #music
Clayton Hove
AccordionBruce
Ukulele George
Simon 🪗
John Leach