The accordion was the first instrument Joan Grauman ever heard. As the daughter of Joseph Tacchetti, an Italian immigrant and an award-winning accordionist, Grauman was handed a musical legacy that ...

Humorist Brian Unger visits the studio of a Los Angeles accordion teacher, and learns that this oft-maligned instrument has been the key to some surprising romantic success for the few who master it.

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In the accordion's halcyon days in the United States, which lasted most of the first half of the 20th century, a schoolboy couldn't walk through North Beach without hearing the sweet and sometimes ...

As a child, Noé Álvarez “wandered the orchards under the spell of corridistas — musicians whose spitfire fingers flew over their three-row accordion keys,” he writes in his memoir, “Accordion Eulogies ...

The day before she died, Anne Romagnoli called the office manager at the Italo-American Accordion Co., the store she owned for 66 years. She had a few questions but mostly a long list of instructions.

When you think of accordion, you think of European polka or folk music. Hanzhi Wang wants you to think of Bach and Piazzolla. On Sunday, Oct. 13, the China-born Wang brings her accordion to Leo Rich ...

Ercole Ventura isn’t convinced his name suits him. In Italian, “Ercole” translates to “Hercules.” And at 5-foot-8 and average weight, Ercole said, he can’t compare to the mythic figure. “I just don’t ...

San Antonio: Eva Ybarra, the Accordion Queen, poses for a portrait. After years without broad recognition, she is finally getting her due. Credit: Texas Observer / Ivan Armando Flores Eva Ybarra plays ...