Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠2d ago
Tell me some thing blasphemous and/or sacrilegious 
Show threadAccordionBruce2d ago

@catsalad
Pirates never played accordions
🏴‍☠️🚫🪗

(Because they hadn’t been invented yet)

Accordions were invented during the 1800s Industrial Revolution at the same time as the telegraph, steam engine and the typewriter

100 years after the Golden Age of Piracy 1600s–1700s

So every pirate movie with an accordionist is a science fiction movie with a time-travel sub plot 🚀⌛️

Show threadSteveg581d ago
@AccordionBruce @catsalad
It occurred to me to wonder if the concertina was earlier but it originated from a similar 1820s date along with the harmonica.
I now wonder if they all arose from a development of cheap thin spring steel near that time?
Show threadAccordionBruce

@Steveg58 @catsalad
The timing lines up

(Ironically?) Before that, parts might have been made at great expense one at a time by watchmakers

When in my accordion research I finally found a timeline of the industrial production of sheet metal, that was a good day

Apr 6 at 12:51pmToot!
Show threadSteveg581d ago
@AccordionBruce @catsalad
Makes sense!