February 7, 2005 The steady march of digital technology continues to sweep all before it and the smallest member of the free-reed musical instrument family, the accordion, looks set to be next with ...

THE young lad who fell in love with piano accordions in the 1930s is still in love. His 85-year-old hands ply the keyboard and buttons, turning puffs of air into an Argentine tango. Ron Pearce sits in ...

Blue suede lederhosen: Spetich and Stash Franjic (left) rip through some mean Alsatian riffs. Credit: courtesy of Betty Spetich Frankie Spetich could have chosen the Americanized piano accordion as ...

Accordionist Tom Torriglia of San Francisco has declared June to be "International Accordion Awareness Month." He joins New Hampshire accordionist Gary Sredzienski in trying to explain why they love ...

The accordion is not a punchline. Between bad jokes (What's the difference between an onion and an accordion? People cry when they chop up onions), double entendres (as the Who sang, "Mama's got a ...

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 ...

SHIVAMOGGA: Go back to the 1960s, and people of that era may remember legendary Raj Kapoor carrying a bulky instrument in the Hindi film Sangam and crooning the song ‘Har dil jo pyar karega’. Piano ...

It wasn’t your typical orchestra performance at the Kennedy Center Tuesday evening. A stageful of uniformed musicians sat with accordions of all shapes, colors, and sizes resting on their laps. That ...