A touch of Accordion history & development of styles
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AccordionUprising
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I had never seen the World Accordioning to Phil ones, since the BBC didn't make them available in Canada. They weren't all on youtube or anywhere for years. So I'm enjoying him and his travels. Pretty close to what I'd have done so far. (only watched episode 1. There's a lot of material in there! Very cool to see him holding the actual Demian 1829 Patent. I'd love to learn more about Demian.
Bruce,
I have a 1830 Demian in very nice condition, as well as an 1830's Bosson (A French patent infringer who may have have promulgated the first accordion lawsuit in history) in "fragmented" condition. The case on Bosson has separated at the glue joints and provides an interesting view inside, revealing construction details. I'll need to dig them out and photograph, but when I can get around to it, I'll start a thread featuring them "Birth of the Accordion" (may be a month or so).
BTW, I had trouble streaming Accordion Uprising in the past (mostly past shows). Has that been fixed?
I have a 1830 Demian in very nice condition, as well as an 1830's Bosson (A French patent infringer who may have have promulgated the first accordion lawsuit in history) in "fragmented" condition. The case on Bosson has separated at the glue joints and provides an interesting view inside, revealing construction details. I'll need to dig them out and photograph, but when I can get around to it, I'll start a thread featuring them "Birth of the Accordion" (may be a month or so).
BTW, I had trouble streaming Accordion Uprising in the past (mostly past shows). Has that been fixed?
AccordionUprising
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I don't know if I've ever seen an actual instrument made by Demian. Information on him seems very rare, at least in English that I've found. I'd love to learn more.
Accordion Noir Radio:
You should be able to stream new and old episodes of Accordion Noir from http://accordionnoir.org which takes you to where we post playlists: http://www.accordionuprising.com/
Or, they are available on most Podcast apps like: Apple or Android (or plain old RSS)
Or (so many options) they are hosted at the Internet Archive at:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator:"Accordion+Noir+radio"
Last week's International Women's episode is up at:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress...st-2022-03-09-international-womens-wednesday/
Valski
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Sounds like a great bargain at less than a dollar per head each year. With a population of something like 330 million it's roughly about 80 cents each per year year so this translates to something like 7 cents per month. Commercial streaming services cost far more and they also don't offer the same quality programming as PBS.
Bruce, Thanks for the links.
![Monty [IIIII]](/data/avatars/m/3/3264.jpg?1644210365){kind=avatar}
Thanks for sharing these videos. I had seen a little bit of the segment with Breton fishermen but didn't know the rest of the program was available on youtube. I think Phil does an excellent job of covering the great diversity of accordion music, particularly from the folk or traditional perspective, which is my primary interest. No doubt some will be disappointed that their favorite accordionist or genre wasn't given much if any coverage. But this documentary demonstrates that an affable host with some production experience and connections to funding can produce a program which has appeal to beyond this audience of accordion enthusiasts. It also suggests the importance of a public broadcasting entity such as BBC to produce programming that would probably not get funding from a purely commercial network. Of course there are so many streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime and many others always looking for new content. So maybe there will be other accordion stories coming to a screen near you. We can always hope.
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