The hum of an accordion might transport you to the streets of Paris or a drafty Italian restaurant with red and white checkered tablecloths and candles stuck in Chianti bottles. Maybe polka comes to ...

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 ...

Latvian-born accordionist Ksenija Sidorova introduces her wonderful instrument and its colourful history. Close your eyes, and picture someone playing the accordion. If the first image that pops into ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Magical to listen to and fascinating to watch in action, the accordion takes simple, everyday air and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. In 1974, when Anthony Schulz was six years old, his father Werner bought him an instrument at a North Melbourne music shop. Instead of a ...

Jim Gilman is ready to rage. Playing to a crowd chomping on schnitzel and gulping down lagers in the dining room of Old World during the weekend of Karneval (the German equivalent of Mardi Gras) on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matthias Matzke describes his accordion music as 'symphonic rock'Sonja Hübner Accordionist Matthias Matzke has a deep passion for ...

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 ...