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**Vivienne Dunstan** @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot · May 12 *

Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot

Finished typing up all 274 newspaper references I found to a German accordion player, travelling around Scotland between 1852 and 1903, giving performances, and offering local tuning and repair services for accordions and related instruments. He was still travelling in the north of Scotland just a few months before he died in 1903. Next step: analyse the data and write it up as an academic journal paper. This may take some time! #Music #accordion #History #Scotland #newspapers #squeezebox

**Vivienne Dunstan** @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot · May 7

May 7

Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot

Report from rural Sprouston in Roxburghshire in 1855, just outside Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Accordionist Herr Yung is currently staying in Kelso, and entertaining communities with performances around and about the area, as well as tuning and repairing accordions. #Music #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Germany #accordion #squeezebox #History

Extract from a newspaper page: "SPROUSTON - Herr J.G. Yung, the celebrated accordionist, a native of Germany, gave one of his brilliant and fascinating musical entertainments in the Schoolroom here on Thursday evening, the 15th instant. The audience on the occasion was very respectable, and the performer, who possesses an unassuming, gentlemanly demeanour, played a great number of German pieces with exquisite taste and skill. He executed also several of Scotia's finest airs in a style and with a delicacy and pathos which at once captivated and astonished his audience. The powers of the accordion were to us entirely unknown until we heard it touched by the skilful hands of Herr Yung."

**Vivienne Dunstan** @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot · May 2 *

May 2 *

Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot

Almost done typing 276 newspaper refs to travelling German accordion performer, tuner and repairer in mid&late 19thC Scotland. Just typed reports of performances in Orkney in 1865 including this one in Holm. "As the accordion is much used in Orkney ..." Analysis and academic journal paper to follow. #accordion #squeezebox #music #Scotland #Germany #History #Orkney

Part of a newspaper page. The report text is "HOLM / MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT - Herr J.G. Yung, the eminent accordionist, gave a concert in the Subscription School, Holm, on the evening of Friday week. The attendance was good, considering the season of the year. Captain E. Scollay and lady, and many other respectable persons belonging to the parish, being present. Herr Yung is a great master of the accordion. He played some beautiful German airs, and some of the choicest pieces of Scotch music, with exquisite taste, and gave great satisfaction to all who were present. As the accordion is much used in Orkney, all who have a taste for that elegant instrument should do themselves the pleasure of hearing Herr Yung, who, as a performer on the accordion, excels all we have ever seen handle the instrument."

**Vivienne Dunstan** @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot · Apr 18

Apr 18

Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot

Back to typing up newspaper references to the German accordionist and tuner I found travelling around mid/late 19th century Scotland. Have now typed up 240/276 newspaper references to him. Here is one just typed, from Selkirk in 1859. I will be writing this all up as an academic journal paper soon. #accordion #squeezebox #music #Scotland #Selkirk #newspapers

Part of a newspaper page. Here is the text of the report. "HERR YUNG's CONCERT - This talented musician gave a concert in the Freemasons' Hall here, on Tuesday evening, when he was assisted by Mr Thomas Young, of Galashiels, and Mr J. Horsburgh, of Selkirk. Of Herr Yung's abilities as an accordionist it would be difficult to speak in too high terms. His execution is as nearly perfect as can be conceived; and all the pieces were rendered with admirable taste. The delicacy and purity of tone which he produces from his favourite instrument is something altogether different from the somewhat harsh tones of the accordion in the hands of an ordinary performer. The vocal part of the entertainment devolved principally upon Mr Young, many of whose songs were well given. Mr Horsburgh was by no means so successful in his efforts as his previous appearances led us to expect, and the effect of his songs was greatly married by the feeling of trepidation from which he seemed unable to escape. The concert, as a whole, seemed to give general satisfaction, and we have no doubt that the impression produced by Herr Yung's performances will ensure for him a much larger audience on his next visit."

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Mar 21

Mar 21

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

The latest episode of #CFRO's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir alt-#squeezebox broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as digital audio via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-03-19-spring-equinot-quite-there-yet/

Accordion springs are as the name suggests, springs under tension whose zig-zag shape resembles the bellows of an accordion. (Unlike accordions, the springs push back out when they're compressed.)

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Mar 13

Mar 13

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

Last night's hour-long episode of CFRO's weekly alt-#squeezebox #AccordionNoir radio program is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-03-12-teslatakedown-eurovision-yiddish-hits-birthday-songs/

A long-haired, clean-shaven musician wearing glasses and a long-sleeved shirt is on stage, playing a synthesizer keyboard while wearing a piano accordion.

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Mar 3

Mar 3

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

From ten years ago, here's an archival episode of our weekly hour-long alt-#squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast out of CFRO Co-Op Radio, featuring recordings by Daniel Kahn and Guy Klucevsek. Why didn't we podcast it at that time? We may never know. But you can hear it now via: https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2015-03-04-guy-klucevsek-daniel-kahn-etc/

A whitefaced bearded man in a hat, wearing a piano accordion, gestures with a megaphone before a mic stand with a bird mask hanging on it.

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Feb 21 *

Feb 21 *

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

Last night's antifa-ntastic new episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir alt-#squeezebox broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as digital audio via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-02-19-punch-a-nazi-listening-club-on-sis-cunninghams-birthday/

#Protest #AntiFa #Accordion

Promoting this Sunday’s #PunchANazi @listeningclub

A group of combat-ready WWII-era Canadian soldiers gather around one of their number serenading them on a piano accordion.

**Vivienne Dunstan** @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot · Feb 19

Feb 19

Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot

My recording of the Ukraine national anthem played on the accordion. The linked SoundCloud page includes a link to the sheet music for this accordion arrangement by me. https://soundcloud.com/vivdunstan/ukraine-national-anthem-arranged-for-accordion #accordion #squeezebox #Ukraine #music #sheetMusic

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Feb 10

Feb 10

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

An hour-long episode of our alt-#squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast on #CFRO from November never got aired online during the Internet Archive hack, as it is our podcast host -- but it is available for your listening enjoyment now! If you aren't yet a podcast subscriber, you can hear it now via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2024-11-20-november-of-its-usual-size/

Album art for The Great War by November Criminals depicts an arcing piano accordion with a winged skull biting its bellows from behind, all starkly drawn in red and black.

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Feb 6

Feb 6

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

Last night's episode of CFRO's weekly #AccordionNoir broadcast of alt- #squeezebox music, a snowy sleighride through wintery accordion music, is up online and available for your online listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-02-05-wintery-tunes-for-some-times-when-we-could-use-some-warming-up/

Two men play piano accordion and fiddle from the bottom of an icy crevasse

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Jan 31 *

Jan 31 *

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

Last night's hour-long episode of our weekly #CFRO alt-#squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast is up online and available for your listening enjoyment as digital audio via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-01-29-what-hath-january/

A disheveled man in grey busks with a piano accordion, its blue-fabric-lined case yawning invitingly, on low rectangular formations near an urban waterfront area.

#accordion #CommunityRadio

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Jan 27

Jan 27

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

From ten years ago, here's an archival episode of CFRO's weekly hour-long alt-#squeezebox #AccordionNoir broadcast, taking as its nominal theme the birthday of the revered Scottish trad accordionist #JimmyShand. https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2015-01-28-jimmy-shand-day/

In a black and white archival photograph, a dapper young man with sharp facial features, wearing a uniform and matching cap, plays outside on a button accordion with his surname, Shand, written down its front.

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Jan 17 *

Jan 17 *

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

The newest episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir alt-#squeezebox radio program, a look at squeezy music entering the public domain in 2025, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-01-15-welcoming-to-the-squeezebox-public-domain-in-2025/

A musician described by the label on his piano accordion as Cornell plays his squeezebox while another dapper fellow strums a banjo next to him.

#accordion #copyright #PublicDomainDay

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Jan 13

Jan 13

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

From two months ago, here's an episode of #CFRO Co-Op Community Radio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir broadcast of alt-#squeezebox music, finally being shared online over social media as we catch up from the Internet Archive disruption of last autumn. https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2024-11-06-beginning-of-a-new-darkness/

An AI-generated piano accordion sits, smashed, as though fallen from a great height, on a rubble-strewn stage floor... while sunlight filters through the dusty air through a hole in the ceiling (through which the instrument initially fell?) to shine down on it.

**Vivienne Dunstan** @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot · Jan 10

Jan 10

Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan@mastodon.scot

Very difficult week with my progressive neurological illness, but delighted to end with some accordion practice. Mainly playing my own arrangements, including here Despacito, and also Speechless from Aladdin, and Don't Shut Me Down from ABBA. Extremely light headed, and there were fluffs, but happy. #accordion #music #squeezebox #Despacito #neuro

**Accordion Noir** @accordionnoir@zirk.us · Jan 6

Jan 6

Accordion Noir @accordionnoir@zirk.us

From ten years ago, here's an archival episode of our weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir radio program of alt-#squeezebox music that for some reason never got shared online until now! You can (finally!) enjoy listening to it as digital audio via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2015-01-07-new-year-review/

A yellow button accordion is expelled by the bright blast of a sparkler out of the neck of an oversized champagne bottle. (Simulated, presumably.)

**Phil** @Phil@folksocial.org · Jan 3

Jan 3

Phil @Phil@folksocial.org

I think I’ve mostly learned “Le Reel Des Soucoupes Volantes” on the box (as in knowing how to, not playing it in front of people with any real competence!) - not bad for “starting to look after I logged off work this afternoon”!
It doesn’t go badly on the two or three row, but I really like the simplicity of going for it on the one row - though you lose the left hand bass/chords matching “properly”…

#FolkLife #Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion

**Phil** @Phil@folksocial.org · Dec 3, 2024

Dec 3, 2024

Phil @Phil@folksocial.org

The first #TuneswapTuesday in #Advent? Here’s @squeezyjohn playing his #Hohner Lucia in the December 3rd video of his #SqueezeboxAdventCalendar

https://youtu.be/KAm9XPEKGBE?t=9m05s

YouTubeSqueezebox Advent Calendar with John Spiers - December 3rd - Hohner Lucia mixte systemBy John Spiers

#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion

**Phil** @Phil@folksocial.org · Dec 3, 2024

Dec 3, 2024

Phil @Phil@folksocial.org

The first #TuneswapTuesday in #Advent? Here’s @squeezyjohn@mastodon todonapp.uk playing his #Hohner Lucia in the December 3rd video of his #SqueezeboxAdventCalendar

https://youtu.be/KAm9XPEKGBE?t=9m05s

YouTubeSqueezebox Advent Calendar with John Spiers - December 3rd - Hohner Lucia mixte systemBy John Spiers

#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion

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