"When I first started playing (as a child), zydeco was for older people," performed on the small diatonic button accordion, Delafose explained. "Then Clifton Chenier started playing the big piano ...

When I press that button and that sound comes ... That’s how I feel when I see some kid playing an accordion that I designed. I become emotional. ‘Wow, I had a part in that,’ I tell myself.

Accordion 101. Button accordionist Otoño Luján — whose ... accordion music styles — not just "the older Italian man playing some old Italian song" — with the reputation shift.

Sponsor Message The diatonic button accordion had many qualities ... "I never actually took lessons for the accordion," Rybak says. "I started playing by ear. My dad had a polka band and still ...

I enjoy playing. I’ve played most of my life and I have a son who took over my band. I was brought up with button accordion music; my grandpa played and my dad played and my brother played ...

Close your eyes, and picture someone playing the accordion. If the first image that pops into your ... The accordion has three main components: the right hand side, a piano or button keyboard; the ...

They double as the musical’s onstage band, playing 30-odd instruments, including fiddles, guitars, drums and even a piano accordion. Image A rehearsal for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” ...