So what inspired this post? Inspired, you ask? Yes, inspired. ![]() Several sites (including Wiki-genius) tell me that the difference is that “concertinas have buttons that travel in the same direction as the bellows, while the keys on the accordion are perpendicular”… whatever that means… which is a long, round-about way of admitting that I know nothing whatsoever about this instrument that has been kicking around in my musical subconscious for many years.īandoneon at the Aníbal Troilo Tango Club in Santiago de Chile ![]() ( Wow, I think that is the run-on-iest sentence I’ve ever written in my life!). I probably never gave it much thought again myself until I came to Chile, which is next to Argentina, with whom it shares a love of tango, which uses the bandoneón, which is technically not an accordion at all, but rather of the concertina family, which you can look up yourself on Wikipedia or take my wiki-informed word for it when I tell you that the major difference between these two rather seemingly related bellow and free-reed instruments is that accordions get strapped on and have piano-like keys, while concertinas (including the bandoneón) are smaller and have buttons rather than keys. Japanese Accordionist in Rome (I promise as soon as I find his card, I will include his name!)
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