Luca Zanetti - a treat from Turin

[maugein96]

From classical to jazz, this guy does it all, with his own version of local Piedmontese fare. 





His day job is an accordion teacher in Turin.

Box is by Giuseppe Verde, Torino.

 

[losthobos]

Some drummer on second track too... Neat combo

 

[maugein96]

Some drummer on second track too... Neat combo

Terry,

He plays in various bands including a manouche type band called "Atelier de Swing". There are a few clips of them on YT, but IMHO they're not the best I've heard at that sort of thing. Could be the sound quality.

If you ever come across a G.Verde (Joe Green) CBA they are well worth a look. All of their CBAs, except the ones with bass converters, are made French style in 4 row as standard with the treble couplers on the rear, pinned reeds, and 3/3 basses. That's the way they make CBAs in that area, and was probably the reason why that accordion style was adopted in France. Domenico Cavagnolo emigrated to France from Piedmont, and no doubt began to make accordions there the way that Papa used to make them. 

It took me years to work out that "sistema francese" with treble couplers on the rear was actually an Italian creation, but was adopted as "the" standard in France. Any CBA boxes made in Italy that aren't "francese" are referred to as "internazionale", although Lucchini and others also made a hybrid type of box that had the treble couplers on the front, but stepped mushroom bass buttons. Don't know what they called them. Probably just "fisarmoniche", unless nit pickers like me got involved somehow.