The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...

Camaraderie and a shared love of the sometimes misunderstood instrument are what bond members of the Chicago Accordion Club. And they wouldn’t have it any other way. “Members of the Chicago Accordion ...

Across the street from a wine lounge and a gourmet sausage spot on Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village, a small red-and-white neon sign reads: "DAVE'S ACCORDION SCHOOL." Inside, black and tan cases ...

The accordion was the first instrument Joan Grauman ever heard. As the daughter of Joseph Tacchetti, an Italian immigrant and an award-winning accordionist, Grauman was handed a musical legacy that ...

Musician and accordion designer Gilberto Reyes met us at the door of Hohner’s national headquarters then located in historic Glen Allen, Virginia. He and I had many mutual friends but had never met in ...

COSTA MESA Barbara Desrochers of Cypress started playing the accordion at age 7. Now, six decades later, she’s still playing the accordion – and taking the stage with others who learned the instrument ...

As a young child in the 1950s, I remember spending summers at my grandparents’ house in Detroit. Their fancy black-and-white mahogany-encased television set was the centerpiece of their living room.

As a child, Noé Álvarez “wandered the orchards under the spell of corridistas — musicians whose spitfire fingers flew over their three-row accordion keys,” he writes in his memoir, “Accordion Eulogies ...

The BYU Accordion Club has found its place after nearly a full semester of activity. What started as a handful of accordion ...

PIERRE — An attempt to name the accordion as South Dakota's official musical instrument is building to a crescendo. The fiddle's four decades as the state's official instrument may come to an end if ...

When I tell people that I play the accordion, I usually get a certain kind of reaction. “Accordion? That’s unusual,” some people say, “I don’t know anyone who plays the accordion!” Sometimes it’s “My ...