AccordionBruce
@accordionbruce.bsky.social
Accordion Historian 🤓 🪗 Author of Accordion Revolution: a People’s History of the Accordion in North America from the Industrial Revolution to Rock ‘n’ Roll (2019) 📚 🪗 Successful Accordion Emoji sponsor (2020) 🤩 🪗 Accordion Noir Radio DJ (2006 – )
#TheWho “Behind Blue Eyes” Instrumental Button Box #Accordion Cover!
youtu.be/f8WXSyggt4M
#Rock
One Less #Guitar 🎸
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#Rock
One Less #Guitar 🎸
The Who “Behind Blue Eyes” Instrumental Button Box Accordion Cover!
YouTube video by Late Night Accordion Musings (Chauncey Canfield)
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November 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
#TheWho “Behind Blue Eyes” Instrumental Button Box #Accordion Cover!
youtu.be/f8WXSyggt4M
#Rock
One Less #Guitar 🎸
youtu.be/f8WXSyggt4M
#Rock
One Less #Guitar 🎸
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I'm very stoked about this concert we're hosting at the Peretz Centre in Vancouver on Dec 3rd with two NY musicians. Michael Winograd, who I consider the best klezmer musican around these days😏 and Ira Temple, my friend & hard working accordionist who is no slouch either.
Light in Winter: Ira Khonen Temple and Michael Winograd in Concert at the Peretz Centre | Peretz Centre
As part of Or Shalom's long-running Light in Winter Concert Series, the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture and Or Shalom proudly present a special klezmer concert featuring Ira Temple and Michae...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I'm very stoked about this concert we're hosting at the Peretz Centre in Vancouver on Dec 3rd with two NY musicians. Michael Winograd, who I consider the best klezmer musican around these days😏 and Ira Temple, my friend & hard working accordionist who is no slouch either.
Getting going on the first hour of tonight’s #Drone Accordion Three Hour special episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social
Live on #Vancouver Co-Op Radio 100.5 FM 9–Mid or online 🪗
Listening to the extend mix its some fantastic #ExperimentalMusic and one of my favourite of these shows we’ve done
Live on #Vancouver Co-Op Radio 100.5 FM 9–Mid or online 🪗
Listening to the extend mix its some fantastic #ExperimentalMusic and one of my favourite of these shows we’ve done
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Getting going on the first hour of tonight’s #Drone Accordion Three Hour special episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social
Live on #Vancouver Co-Op Radio 100.5 FM 9–Mid or online 🪗
Listening to the extend mix its some fantastic #ExperimentalMusic and one of my favourite of these shows we’ve done
Live on #Vancouver Co-Op Radio 100.5 FM 9–Mid or online 🪗
Listening to the extend mix its some fantastic #ExperimentalMusic and one of my favourite of these shows we’ve done
This year's @accordionnoir.bsky.social special episode: #Drone & #ExperimentalMusic Squeeze into the Long Nights🪗 available for global listeners!
Broadcasting tonight on #Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 FM, Wed Oct 29, starting EARLY from 9PM to Midnight 𝄐
Click to Donate While Listening:
#Accordion
Broadcasting tonight on #Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 FM, Wed Oct 29, starting EARLY from 9PM to Midnight 𝄐
Click to Donate While Listening:
#Accordion
Accordion Noir Radio Playlist 2025-10-29, Squeeze into the Long Nights (Drone Accordion V)
Long time coming gathering works for another episode of drone, experimental and noisy squeezebox to stretch your listening ears! This is a fine set of tones indeed as we did four years in the past …
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October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This year's @accordionnoir.bsky.social special episode: #Drone & #ExperimentalMusic Squeeze into the Long Nights🪗 available for global listeners!
Broadcasting tonight on #Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 FM, Wed Oct 29, starting EARLY from 9PM to Midnight 𝄐
Click to Donate While Listening:
#Accordion
Broadcasting tonight on #Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 FM, Wed Oct 29, starting EARLY from 9PM to Midnight 𝄐
Click to Donate While Listening:
#Accordion
This week's #Halloween special episoode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio revisits Dr. Carmel Raz on 19th Century Spiritualists summoning up Ghostly #Accordion players! 👻
Also note next week's Oct 29th 3-hr #Drone #ExperimentalMusic 🪗 fundraiser show starts early from 9PM–Mid
Also note next week's Oct 29th 3-hr #Drone #ExperimentalMusic 🪗 fundraiser show starts early from 9PM–Mid
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-22: Dr. Carmel Raz Seances, Sperrits, and Ghostly Accordions Halloween 2025 Remix
NOTE SPECIAL EARLY SHOW NEXT WEEK: WED. OCT 29, 9 PM-MID.Accordion Noir: Squeeze into the Long Nights: Drone & Experimental AccordionShould just roll out on your podcast as an extra-long 3-hour…
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October 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This week's #Halloween special episoode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio revisits Dr. Carmel Raz on 19th Century Spiritualists summoning up Ghostly #Accordion players! 👻
Also note next week's Oct 29th 3-hr #Drone #ExperimentalMusic 🪗 fundraiser show starts early from 9PM–Mid
Also note next week's Oct 29th 3-hr #Drone #ExperimentalMusic 🪗 fundraiser show starts early from 9PM–Mid
This week's @accordionnoir.bsky.social episode available online now!
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
AccNoir–2025-10-15, Rowan’s Italian Travel Romance
Hey all! This week Accordion Noir co-host and podcast upload coordinator Rowan is globetrotting with his family in sunny Italy! Which we celebrate in tonight’s playlist with a set of mostly I…
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October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This week's @accordionnoir.bsky.social episode available online now!
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
Includes lots of Italian #Accordion for my touring co-host 🇮🇹🪗
And a link for fans to send authors thousand-dollar tips if their #books show up in the big #Anthropic #AI ebook piracy settlement 📚
Click to listen while you read:
Check out the playlist for this week’s episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this #BandcampFriday (today, Sept 5 — 4 hrs left!)
Listen to our show while supporting #AccordionBandcamp artists who get 90% of proceeds today 💰🪗
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this #BandcampFriday (today, Sept 5 — 4 hrs left!)
Listen to our show while supporting #AccordionBandcamp artists who get 90% of proceeds today 💰🪗
Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-03: Jo Ann Castle’s Birthday Bandcamp Friday
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, celebrating the occasion of Jo Ann Castle’s birthday, is another look into the catalogue of squeezy music a…
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September 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Check out the playlist for this week’s episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this #BandcampFriday (today, Sept 5 — 4 hrs left!)
Listen to our show while supporting #AccordionBandcamp artists who get 90% of proceeds today 💰🪗
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this #BandcampFriday (today, Sept 5 — 4 hrs left!)
Listen to our show while supporting #AccordionBandcamp artists who get 90% of proceeds today 💰🪗
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It’s Bandcamp Friday! Here’s my old band “Beast, Please Be Still” where I met my wife (she played accordion). It’s post-rock but with violin, flute, electronic wind instrument, and cellphone feedback? Very 2007.
Enjoy: beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com/album/beast-...
#bandcampfriday
Enjoy: beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com/album/beast-...
#bandcampfriday
Beast, Please Be Still, by Beast, Please Be Still
7 track album
beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It’s Bandcamp Friday! Here’s my old band “Beast, Please Be Still” where I met my wife (she played accordion). It’s post-rock but with violin, flute, electronic wind instrument, and cellphone feedback? Very 2007.
Enjoy: beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com/album/beast-...
#bandcampfriday
Enjoy: beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com/album/beast-...
#bandcampfriday
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RIP Mark Volman, founding member of The Turtles and one half of Flo & Eddie (pictured here - Mark is on the left, Howard Kaylan on the right). I was fortunate enough to do some of my very first live performances as an opening act for Flo & Eddie in 1983 at the Bottom Line in NYC.
September 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
RIP Mark Volman, founding member of The Turtles and one half of Flo & Eddie (pictured here - Mark is on the left, Howard Kaylan on the right). I was fortunate enough to do some of my very first live performances as an opening act for Flo & Eddie in 1983 at the Bottom Line in NYC.
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Today (Aug 15) in #NLMusicHistory...
In 1979, The Newfoundland Herald profiled accordion aficionado GEOFF BUTLER. At age 19, Geoff joined Newfoundland & Labrador's premier folk-rock band FIGGY DUFF.
@geoffmeeker.bsky.social #FiggyDuff @accordionbruce.bsky.social #Accordion
In 1979, The Newfoundland Herald profiled accordion aficionado GEOFF BUTLER. At age 19, Geoff joined Newfoundland & Labrador's premier folk-rock band FIGGY DUFF.
@geoffmeeker.bsky.social #FiggyDuff @accordionbruce.bsky.social #Accordion
August 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Today (Aug 15) in #NLMusicHistory...
In 1979, The Newfoundland Herald profiled accordion aficionado GEOFF BUTLER. At age 19, Geoff joined Newfoundland & Labrador's premier folk-rock band FIGGY DUFF.
@geoffmeeker.bsky.social #FiggyDuff @accordionbruce.bsky.social #Accordion
In 1979, The Newfoundland Herald profiled accordion aficionado GEOFF BUTLER. At age 19, Geoff joined Newfoundland & Labrador's premier folk-rock band FIGGY DUFF.
@geoffmeeker.bsky.social #FiggyDuff @accordionbruce.bsky.social #Accordion
Trump's ending de minimis exemption (which would add 35% tax to shipments from Canada less than $800)
Means I might have to close my #AccordionRevolution Etsy to US buyers after August 1
So if you want #Accordion books, stickers or buttons, you might want to order in the next week or so
Means I might have to close my #AccordionRevolution Etsy to US buyers after August 1
So if you want #Accordion books, stickers or buttons, you might want to order in the next week or so
AccordionBruce.etsy.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Trump's ending de minimis exemption (which would add 35% tax to shipments from Canada less than $800)
Means I might have to close my #AccordionRevolution Etsy to US buyers after August 1
So if you want #Accordion books, stickers or buttons, you might want to order in the next week or so
Means I might have to close my #AccordionRevolution Etsy to US buyers after August 1
So if you want #Accordion books, stickers or buttons, you might want to order in the next week or so
Big thread over on #accodion #Mastodon (such as it is) about an electronic melodeon, somebody found
I thought you might be interested @johnspiers.co.uk
mastodon.social/@AccordionBr...
I thought you might be interested @johnspiers.co.uk
mastodon.social/@AccordionBr...
August 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Big thread over on #accodion #Mastodon (such as it is) about an electronic melodeon, somebody found
I thought you might be interested @johnspiers.co.uk
mastodon.social/@AccordionBr...
I thought you might be interested @johnspiers.co.uk
mastodon.social/@AccordionBr...
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Hey #Vancouver!
@lankumdublin.bsky.social are playing the Vogue October 15!
I’m telling you cause I already got my ticket
lankumdublin.com
#accordion #concertina #FolkMusic #IrishMusic #Drone #Soundscapes #ExperimentalMusic #Bagpipes
@lankumdublin.bsky.social are playing the Vogue October 15!
I’m telling you cause I already got my ticket
lankumdublin.com
#accordion #concertina #FolkMusic #IrishMusic #Drone #Soundscapes #ExperimentalMusic #Bagpipes
LANKUM - 'False Lankum' Now Available from Rough Trade
Official website of Rough Trade Recording artists, Lankum. 'False Lankum' is now available Worldwide. Lankum Tour Dates, Lankum Merch, and more.
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August 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Hey #Vancouver!
@lankumdublin.bsky.social are playing the Vogue October 15!
I’m telling you cause I already got my ticket
lankumdublin.com
#accordion #concertina #FolkMusic #IrishMusic #Drone #Soundscapes #ExperimentalMusic #Bagpipes
@lankumdublin.bsky.social are playing the Vogue October 15!
I’m telling you cause I already got my ticket
lankumdublin.com
#accordion #concertina #FolkMusic #IrishMusic #Drone #Soundscapes #ExperimentalMusic #Bagpipes
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Purchased a copy of this, with the great Daniel Kahn and a cause of our time how can we not?
August 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Purchased a copy of this, with the great Daniel Kahn and a cause of our time how can we not?
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out today - including the work of many good friends of mine. an album of new Yiddish music to benefit Abu Amsha's Gaza Birds Singing, a musical, educational, and therapeutic project in Gaza.
LIDER MIT PALESTINE לידער מיט פּאַלעסטינע: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love, by lider mit palestine
17 track album
lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
out today - including the work of many good friends of mine. an album of new Yiddish music to benefit Abu Amsha's Gaza Birds Singing, a musical, educational, and therapeutic project in Gaza.
This week's #bandcampfriday episode of Accordion Noir Festival radio is available for listening
With #accordionbandcamp links and recommendations for all the artists we played so you can go and load 90% of your money into their tip-jars
So pass some cash around. That's what an economy is for 🪗💸
With #accordionbandcamp links and recommendations for all the artists we played so you can go and load 90% of your money into their tip-jars
So pass some cash around. That's what an economy is for 🪗💸
AccNoir–2025-07-30, Bandcamp August Friday in July
(Cover image above: Just heard the great Flaco Jimenez has died. More from him next week. For now a few of his records from Smithsonian/Folkways are available on Bandcamp. And today is Bandcamp Fri…
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August 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This week's #bandcampfriday episode of Accordion Noir Festival radio is available for listening
With #accordionbandcamp links and recommendations for all the artists we played so you can go and load 90% of your money into their tip-jars
So pass some cash around. That's what an economy is for 🪗💸
With #accordionbandcamp links and recommendations for all the artists we played so you can go and load 90% of your money into their tip-jars
So pass some cash around. That's what an economy is for 🪗💸
First appearance of an accordion in Canadian history is at an Ursuline convent in Quebec City. We know because they kept the receipt in 1843
AccordionRevolution.org
#Accordion #Canada #Quebec #FolkMusic #AccordionRevolution
AccordionRevolution.org
#Accordion #Canada #Quebec #FolkMusic #AccordionRevolution
![Page 210 from my Accordion Revolution:
“An Ursuline convent school may have purchased the very first accordion in Canada in 1843. We know this because the nuns kept the receipts, and several of these delicate instruments survive in the convent museum. The Ursulines also had various accordions repaired in Quebec City at the head of the St. Lawrence River, source for European imports in Canada. These French-style instruments would have featured in bourgeois and upper-class parlors in Quebec, but were out of reach of most people.
In the later 1800s, more affordable German-style accordions and Anglo-German concertinas became available through the Eaton and Montgomery Ward catalogs. Then, in 1895, Odilon Gagné began producing the first Canadian-built German-style ten-button accordions in Quebec. He crafted every part himself, from the reeds to the bellows and buttons. His sons carried on the business and passed on the skills to [his sons].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i4x3q3m3ktdykipglxxr3vfh/bafkreibhuwizwe3hkputlpgbinrunuwevsugh3mwmhrzdvdklu3e3gj6gi@jpeg)
July 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
First appearance of an accordion in Canadian history is at an Ursuline convent in Quebec City. We know because they kept the receipt in 1843
AccordionRevolution.org
#Accordion #Canada #Quebec #FolkMusic #AccordionRevolution
AccordionRevolution.org
#Accordion #Canada #Quebec #FolkMusic #AccordionRevolution
Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week 🌞 🪗
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#Accordion #buttons #stickers
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#Accordion #buttons #stickers
July 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week 🌞 🪗
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com
#Accordion #buttons #stickers
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com
#Accordion #buttons #stickers
Do I know any #accordion or #concertina folks in #Belfast who might be up to attending this auction and shipping me an instrument if I’m fool enough to win one?
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection 🪗
www.rosss.com/auction/the-...
#FolkMusic
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection 🪗
www.rosss.com/auction/the-...
#FolkMusic
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection at Ross's Online Auctions
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection
Bidding will take place via the-saleroom.com. You can bid by clicking here.
Ross's Auctions is proud to present this landmark sale of Northern Ireland's lar
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July 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Do I know any #accordion or #concertina folks in #Belfast who might be up to attending this auction and shipping me an instrument if I’m fool enough to win one?
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection 🪗
www.rosss.com/auction/the-...
#FolkMusic
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection 🪗
www.rosss.com/auction/the-...
#FolkMusic
Tonight’s episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio will praise the protesters with occasional #accordion in #LosAngeles 🪗 🪧
#Zydeco rubboard master Cleveland Chenier’s birthday the day before mine
And a farewell to #BrianWilson accordion aficionado 🏖️
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#Zydeco rubboard master Cleveland Chenier’s birthday the day before mine
And a farewell to #BrianWilson accordion aficionado 🏖️
AccordionNoir.org
AccordionNoir.org
June 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Tonight’s episode of @accordionnoir.bsky.social radio will praise the protesters with occasional #accordion in #LosAngeles 🪗 🪧
#Zydeco rubboard master Cleveland Chenier’s birthday the day before mine
And a farewell to #BrianWilson accordion aficionado 🏖️
AccordionNoir.org
#Zydeco rubboard master Cleveland Chenier’s birthday the day before mine
And a farewell to #BrianWilson accordion aficionado 🏖️
AccordionNoir.org
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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles
The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.
prospect.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
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“Especially when accompanied by an accordion.” 👨🏻🍳💋
June 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
“Especially when accompanied by an accordion.” 👨🏻🍳💋
Trésors de lames
Accordéons et bandonéons
French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring
Order a copy of his beautiful book!
Treasury of Reeds is a coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos across 350 pages 📚
www.laboitedaccordeon.fr/livre-art-tr...
🪗
Accordéons et bandonéons
French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring
Order a copy of his beautiful book!
Treasury of Reeds is a coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos across 350 pages 📚
www.laboitedaccordeon.fr/livre-art-tr...
🪗
June 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trésors de lames
Accordéons et bandonéons
French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring
Order a copy of his beautiful book!
Treasury of Reeds is a coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos across 350 pages 📚
www.laboitedaccordeon.fr/livre-art-tr...
🪗
Accordéons et bandonéons
French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring
Order a copy of his beautiful book!
Treasury of Reeds is a coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos across 350 pages 📚
www.laboitedaccordeon.fr/livre-art-tr...
🪗
Tune in on Mastodon for the Sunday #ListeningClub featuring this week my favourite #accordion record, all the way through
Follow the hashtag #ListeningClub and include it in comments (no spoilers)
Follow the @ListeningClub account for more information and links for where to get today’s album
❤️🔥🪗
Follow the hashtag #ListeningClub and include it in comments (no spoilers)
Follow the @ListeningClub account for more information and links for where to get today’s album
❤️🔥🪗
June 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Tune in on Mastodon for the Sunday #ListeningClub featuring this week my favourite #accordion record, all the way through
Follow the hashtag #ListeningClub and include it in comments (no spoilers)
Follow the @ListeningClub account for more information and links for where to get today’s album
❤️🔥🪗
Follow the hashtag #ListeningClub and include it in comments (no spoilers)
Follow the @ListeningClub account for more information and links for where to get today’s album
❤️🔥🪗