Tom Pixton - A Short History of the Accordion

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3 жыл бұрын

#RevelsConnects: Musical Connections presents Tom Pixton - A Short History of the Accordion. Listen to the companion podcast dropping April 28, featuring Tom in a behind-the-scenes interview with Mass Cultural Council Folk Arts & Heritage Program Manager Maggie Holtzberg, at revelsconnectsmusicalconnecti..., or on your preferred podcast streaming app.
Audio recording and video production by Dave Jamrog.
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Tom Pixton has been active in a variety of traditional music scenes for more than 30 years. He has been a regular Revels performer since 1997 as an accordionist, arranger, singer, band leader, and friend. In this presentation, Tom will give an overview of the accordion’s origins and history, playing on four types of accordions from his own collection. The music presented will range from Cajun, Canadian, Armenian, and Bulgarian, to Chinese, Laotion, Mexican, and Azeri. To learn more about Tom, please visit his website at www.pixton.org/.

Пікірлер: 17

@UkuleleSioni 10 ай бұрын

Great presentation and playing. Thank you. Shout out to Québec.

@RoyalDelux 2 жыл бұрын

My brain is an empty vessel for you to squeeze in all this rich accordion history. Thank You for presenting us with this inspiring tale of bellows and immigrants/world artists. Long live the accordion.

@SunnyBeetle1922 2 жыл бұрын

This brought a lot of beautiful memories back and some tears too. My dad played the accordion from the age of 7 when my grandad taught him and he sadly passed away last August. We still have his beautiful button Accordion. I’m hoping to learn how to play in order to bring this beautiful instrument back to life. Thank you for this wonderful history of the accordions. It really is an incredible instrument and the accordionists on here are mind blowingly talented. So much gratitude for this wonderful presentation🙏🏽💯🌈⭐️✨💫🪗

@petermorris5808 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, great accordion player and excellent background/history of the instrument. Thank you for the great and entertaining talk!

@babybloc 3 жыл бұрын

I liked that Armenian tune a lot. And the last ones too 🪗 👏🏼

@camiloandresclavijo7274 Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏

@emilianodelacruz3504 2 жыл бұрын

You are very knowledgeable and very humble musician.also in peru we developed using the piano accordion playing vernacular regional andes music,like groups los manantiales ,los puquiales and estudiantina peru playing huaynos andinos en accordions. Thumbs up for you.

@connieb3657 Жыл бұрын

Awesome!! Thanks for so much interesting information. I play a 120 bass piano accordion. It’s such a joyful, fun instrument to play.

@yankeecornbread8464 2 жыл бұрын

Fun and interesting. Learned a lot: there’s more to the button box than polkas and Ländler.

@rachelallencamus Жыл бұрын

Love this history and your lovely playing. I'm learning to play as an adult and your passion is infectious!

@haokanmike1962 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such a broad history :)

@thumbstruck 2 жыл бұрын

Musette tuning was developed to play with the French bagpipes (musette) from Auvergne - the 'pipes being straight tuned, not tempered. A wet tuning had a better more in-tune sound, thus this became popular in Scotland and Ireland.

@LearnEFTwithLucia Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video.😃😃

@Chris_2023_ 10 ай бұрын

Great video Tom. Love that Guerrini sound!!! I have played Balkan music for many years. Where can I find a genuine Gueriini these days?

@nadiacooper9753 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much this taught me lots of intresting facts🙂🙂

@babybloc 3 жыл бұрын

I think the link to the podcast interview is broken?

@RevelsIncCambridge 3 жыл бұрын

We just fixed it, thank you for letting us know! Tom's episode of the podcast will be available tomorrow at the link above or on your preferred podcast streaming app.