Giuliano Nardi and his fisarmonica who have featured on barganews many times over the years was awarded a trophy this morning in Palazzo Pancrazi by the the Mayor of Barga, Marco Bonini in recognition of his unfailing devotion to making music with his fisarmonica – the accordian.
The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
It is played by compressing or expanding a bellows whilst pressing buttons or keys, causing valves, called pallets, to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds, that vibrate to produce sound inside the body.
The instrument is sometimes considered a one-man-band as it needs no accompanying instrument. The performer normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand manual, and the accompaniment — consisting of bass and pre-set chord buttons — on the left-hand manual. – source
Dear Sir or Madam,
You have taken the mystery out of this box of tricks for me. Far too much information this. I thought they maybe had like silicon chips or hamsters inside them, or even both in the double button version. For a bloke or bint that knows nothing about vegetables your the Don Corleone peperoni when it comes to jamming your head in a squeezbox.
Enough already,
All over Italy they know his concertina
Poppa Piccolino, Poppa Piccolino,
He plays so prettily to every signorina
Poppa Piccolino from sunny Italy
Ciao,
Peter Townsend
London
England
If I had wrote a song about a squeezbox, who knows, I might have been famous?