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The piano accordion is one of the famous families of accordion instrument that have been used in a number of musical concerts in the whole world. Most often, it is indicated by the term “accordion”, but it is actually one of the most recent inventions among the types of accordion.

According to numerous resources, the piano keyboard was first placed on accordion in 1852 by Bouton of Paris. From that time until the early 1900s, this instrument was not given much attention or any development, until the year 1910 onwards when the piano accordion came into prominence almost worldwide and remains the most popular type of accordion used. Read more . . .

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Hohner is basically a company famous for its high quality accordions. Based on the company’s history, the first model of Hohner accordion was designed and manufactured in 1893, when the original founder Matthias Hohner died. His sons were the ones who decided to expand the business to include the manufacture of a new reed instrument, the accordion. Since then, Hohner quickly built a parallel reputation for excellence, and they have been well-known as a top accordion manufacturer due to their strict dedication to quality that continues up to these days. Read more . . .

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Established in New York in 1924, the Excelsior Company has long been serving the market with some of the great accordions. In 1948, the company considered expansion of their production and since then, excellent sound, quality and fine look of the Excelsior accordions have been appreciated all over the world. In fact, it was noted in one of the resources that the greatest popularity of Excelsior accordions was reached after the Second World War as they became a “must” for any big orchestra with Charles Magnante and Art Van Damme as a few among the many well-known accordionists who prefer Excelsior.

All of the professional models of Excelsior accordions, as commonly claimed, are very prestigious instruments. The selection ranges from the top-quality 960 (922 in button), Read more . . .

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For long years, Cajun accordion has been popular throughout the world as one of the interesting, fun to play type of reeds. Stories have been said that this instrument is actually by origin and definition as “melodeon”, meaning an instrument with fundamentally melodic potential, incompletely supported by tow simple harmonies. In fact, this is also the reason that many people call it the Melodeon. Read more . . .

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Scrapbooking is one of the favourite hobbies of most people. It helps to enhance our artistic side and it sometimes serves as a good way for releasing tension that many people find scrapbooking fun, enjoyable and relaxing.

If you would like to start an accordion scrapbook in particular, but have no idea where to start, then this page is for you. This article will , in fact, cover the fundamental steps to creating an accordion scrapbook. Read more . . .