The accordion is used in many forms of music popular in Texas and Mexico including tejano, conjunto and norteno. German immigrants brought the instrument to the region in the 1800's, and it was ...

Some contemporary Kashubian folk bands feature a burczybas. This instrument was devised in Warsaw by Piotr Stamirowski’s accordion company. The air that generates the sound in this music device is ...

But, first he had to take the thing apart — no small task, given the complexity of the instrument. The accordion has 120 buttons, and they’re not interchangeable, which means he had to ...

I had never seen an accordion onstage with an orchestra, let alone as the solo instrument in a piece of orchestral music. And Shekhar wrote the longest, slowest, most eerie cold open – first ...