Monday was World Accordion Day, but the instruments are always celebrated at A World of Accordions, the museum in Superior. Nearly 20 years ago, in 2005, Florian Chmielewski and his family played a ...

The Italo - American Accordion Company on West 95th Street opened in Chicago in 1910 by Anne Romagnoli's father and his two brothers. Their music just continues to play. "They would make $25 to 30 a ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — Diane Hagen doesn't remember a time when she didn't either play the accordion, or recognize the sound of one. "I think it was because I was in my mom's stomach for nine months and ...

The old accordion rests on a small table among other artifacts in my sister’s living room as a silent, but solemn, tribute to the man who played it. I suppose to some it would seem an odd accessory 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 ...