The Accordion Club of Tucson's repertoire includes more than 200 songs including, polkas, mazurkas, popular music, big band and boogie, show tunes, ballads, and music of many cultures. These Tucson Meet Yourself performers will thrill you.
From 1830 the development of the accordion accelerated. There were some important differences between the instruments of that era and those of today. For one thing, the early accordions did not have shoulder straps that allowed the player to hold the instrument close to the body. The older models were played by placing the thumb, the little finger, and sometimes the fourth finger of the right hand under the treble keyboard, leaving only the remaining two or three fingers free to press the keys. The thumb of the left hand was also placed under the instrument to steady it, with only the second and fifth fingers used for playing. Most players today wear double straps, although single-strapped accordions, which leave the keyboard at a less upright angle, are popular in the Soviet Union.
Early accordions, like the Bandoneon (and, for that matter, the harmonica) that exist today, produced different notes on the press and draw of the bellows. Thus, if the C key were pressed to produce that note on the opening of the bellows, the note D might sound when the bellows were closed. These instruments are characterized as diatonic, and the pitch of their notes was determined by the placement of the keys and the reeds by each maker.
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