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Italian accordion without basses

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Starting at 1400 a mini CBA without basses is being played.
What a beauty ! Anyone who can read the brand on the accordion?


STORIA DEL LISCIO BOLOGNESE - Leonildo Marcheselli, il papa della filuzzi (parte II)

I know this type of accordions was used in Italian liscio music. Im looking for one like this.
If anyone knows where in Italy they make and sell these...
 
This is another video, no close ups. Cant read the name of the make/brand.

Valzer e Polke alla filuzziana con lorganetto di Marcheselli
 
I like both videos for entertainment. There just might a perfect use for this bellows box, for example a talented Harmonica player with emphysema ?? The 2nd video is also comical as the middle gent in the trio seems to be just catching up with some interesting reading :lol:

The mouth blown Harmonica related to the accordion with metal free reeds, is also a fine instrument in qualified hands--


And for you in my age bracket you might like this --
 
Thank you for posting these Stephen. I havent watched the first yet (need broadband) but the second was a lovely fresh spontaneous approach to liscio with the bloke doing some reading an added bonus.

I am no help whatsoever with your actual question except... The word organetto is usually used for diatonics. In the case of this video I just took it to mean a small box. But this Wikipedia page, relating to the artists on the video, might imply that an organetto bolognese might be something else other than a fisarmonica??? The picture on the Wikipedia page is also frustratingly unclear.

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonildo_Marcheselli
 
This page talks about a chromatic-diatonic hybrid as a step towards the use of chromatic accordions in liscio music and also refers to it as an organetto bolognese:


http://www.lisciobolognese.it/FiluzziStoriaNascitaMusica.html

Im struggling with both the language and the typeface but I think it talks about a diatonic with semitones and then something unisonoric.
 
JimD. I saw Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats at the Glasgow Alhambra in the 1960s. I remembered they played the Barber of Seville Overture and whilst not my type of music, must have impressed me because the next Saturday I invested six shillings on a Chinese Hero moothie. Fifty years later I see they are still selling the same model in an identical hinge-up cardboard box.
How can I remember this when I can't remember what I did last week?
Garth
 
Here we go:


http://www.novalis.it/materiali/MARCHESELLI_prefazione_e_spartiti.pdf

The organetto bolognese, creation of Ettore Biagi, modified successively from diatonic to unisonoric with the addition of the fourth row (Im paraphrasing, maybe not accurately, and Im not exactly sure what that would mean in practice...)

(Theres some sheet music on this link too though it possibly should be copyright)

I dont know that this is the type of box being played in the videos but the wording on the second one suggests that it might be. Thanks for posting, another of your very interesting links. I hope the guy in the middle enjoyed his magazine.
 
Thank you all for the replies on the topic of accordions without basses.
I also had a quick look at the Italian webpages about the history of liscio music in the Bologna area and the Roman liscio music.

It seems some professional accordionists had some special ordered made accordions without basses. Its difficult to put a year on the make of these accordions, and I didnt find these in the online catalogues. So I think they are on demand special orders. The look of these accordions are not that different from series made accordions with basses.
I have seen a few interesting videos, and have been able to read some of these brands. I see eg Stocco, Fratelli Crosio and Attila (?) accordions without basses.


POLCA BRILLANTE (BRANO STORICO) MARCO MARCHESELLI ALLA FISARMONICA - MEMORIAL VENTURI, 13.12.2011


RICORDO (VALZER) - RUGGERO PASSARINI ALLA FISARMONICA - MEMORIAL CARLO VENTURI, 13.12.2011


P1650402-Paolo e Marco Marcheselli - Arena Orfeonica BO TACADANCER 2011 by MVaccari


ARIA DI MARE.wmv


Ruggero Passarini suona Ivano organetto al Teatro Perla di Bologna by MVaccari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Q5SqWnnjY
Ruggero Passarini e il suo poetico organetto al Cine-teatro Perla di Bologna by MVaccari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39OkxWUBK4
Polke alla Filuzzi suonate da ANDREA SCALA al CAMAROUN di Ozzano Emilia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHnWQEIB4fg
Andrea Scala: Padano
 
What do you think Stephen, could the man in your first video be playing one of these hybrid "organetto bolognese" things? I know he does a bellows shake but that doesn't prove anything as even the 1.5 row 2 bass players do bellows shakes on the same pitch, must take some coordination. I should be able to tell from the fingering if he's playing cba, but I've never been any good at thinking about fingering visually. Any thoughts?
 
Yes, I think he plays a CBA accordion in the video(s). Maybe the white and black colours of the buttons do not correspond to the traditional order of the C-system CBA coloured buttons (his hand, fixated because of the thumb strap, is covering some of the buttons, so I dont have a good view on the colours of the buttons). But I think it is a c-system CBA he is playing.

Here Marco Marcheselli is playing the same accordion, in the title it is called a fisarmonica ( chromatic accordion/ f#(h)armonica )

POLCA BRILLANTE (BRANO STORICO) MARCO MARCHESELLI ALLA FISARMONICA - MEMORIAL VENTURI, 13.12.2011

And one can hear it is a 2-voice tremolo accordion.
 
A few people have mentioned recently the impact that this forum has had. In a similar vein, as a direct result of Stephen starting this thread, not only did it start me off trying to play this kind of music (which I already listened to) but we wouldnt have had this being played in a noisy bar this week otherwise: Foglie al Vento by Leonildo Marcheselli (not me playing). Thanks for posting the original video. https://www.dropbox.com/s/6pg1ji187i3t09a/Foglie al Vento 2016-12-19 21-54-48.wav?dl=0
 
What a great photo, thanks Stephen. I wonder what the band sounded like. I didn't know about harp guitars. They would be well suited to produce the typical bass + chord accompaniment patterns that we often hear in liscio music today (they could also play more complex parts of course). These kind of accompaniment parts are also seen in the guitar accompaniments written for mandolin music in the 1920s or before. Anyway with so many instruments I wonder how complex the arrangements were. Great photo.
 
You may know this already, but one or two modern Liscio Bolognese players play PA versions of the Liscio Bolognese derived CBAs played by Ruggero Passarini.

Perhaps the best known of these is Andrea Scala, and Ive attached a clip of him playing Ballerina, a Mazurka.

Dont know how faithful his music is to the original Filuzzi, but he certainly gets a fantastic sound out of that little Stocco.



For something completely different, here is a polka, being danced Bolognese style in the street. Could be an organetto, but it might just have been a backing record.



By the time I got into listening to Liscio Bolognese, Carlo Venturi was one of the main players, on a 4 row Stocco, and I had no idea of the history of the genre until a few years ago.
 
I agree, nice to see such a good quality small piano accordion. The clip is also interesting in terms of the discussion of staccato on another thread as you don't get much shorter than some of those notes. I'm not sure what the filuzzi style is alll about - sometimes I think it might be a stripped down, back to basics approach but the recordings I found of Leonildo Marcheslli are full lush American sounding dance bands so I don't know. Anyway thank you for another nice clip which I could try to learn from. As for the dancing - I wasn't expecting that!!!!! You'd need some room - if you did that in a dance hall someone's going to get hurt! So much I don't know.
 
Matt,

Polka Chinata (crouched polka) is part of the Filuzzi, and is typically danced between two males called ballerini. It is also danced in ballrooms, along with the other styles. It is danced exclusively in the city of Bologna, and not in the rest of Emilia Romagna, like the other filuzzi dances.

Ive attached a clip from Italias got talent. Youll note that the judges are a bit mesmerised with it until two of them get up and have a go themselves with disastrous results! I have seen the dance performed quite a few times, especially in documentaries covering the history of Liscio and Filuzzi.

As I say, I had been listening to the music of Carlo Venturi for a long time without realising where it had all come from. Venturi had a liscio band from about 1960 onwards, when he was only 17, until his untimely death in 1986 at the age of 43. He is probably the most famous of the modern Liscio Bolognese accordionists.

See what you make of the attached clip, and youll find plenty more on You Tube under Polka Chinata.

 
Liscio Bolognese continues to be perpetuated by young players like Davide Salvi, from Porretta Terme, in the mountain area of Bologna, who decided to copy the style and techniques of Carlo Venturi.

Here he is playing a selection at Monghidoro (remember the documentary?) in 2007 when he would have been about 28 years of age. Unfortunately he decides to put a rather extended version of La Petite Valse into the medley which detracts from the Italian flavour somewhat. There are many other clips of him, but thought this one was pretty apt, being as it was in his home mountain territory and not in some false stage setting.

 
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