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AccordionBruce
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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 – )
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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

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Unusual pin connector for some kind of electronic audio output on the outside of a diatonic melodeon/accordion. Back of a black accordion with two 2/4 inch jack audio output plugs. It is a Hohner Overture V model. Same Accordion with the front grill taken off so you can see the wiring pour the peculiar electronic plug wired up to individual sensors for each key, I think. Jack on the front of the Accordion, which looks to me to be perhaps a 12 V power input?
August 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
accordionbruce.bsky.social
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
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].
July 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
accordionbruce.bsky.social
Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week 🌞 🪗
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com

#Accordion #buttons #stickers
Copy of my Accordion Revolution book with many stickers and buttons from my Etsy shop, spread out before packing to mail. A set of seven round white button badges with accordion register symbols of lines and dots that look a bit like cartoon stick figure ninja faces. A bunch of packages ready to mail, all with red flamingo accordions stamped in them.
July 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
accordionbruce.bsky.social
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...
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Trésors de lames Accordéons et bandonéons by Laurent Jarry
June 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
accordionbruce.bsky.social
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
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THE LISTENING CLUB WE LISTEN TO A MYSTERY ALBUM TOGETHER ON MASTODON. EVERY SUNDAY 20:00 BST (GMT 1). (Bruce added accordion emoji to the edges of this standard banner message.) (USED TO BE ON TWITTER, BUT FUCK THAT GUY). JOIN US AT HTTPS://MASTODON.SOCIAL/@LISTENINGCLUB AND SEARCH THE HASHTAG #LISTENINGCLUB FOR THE CHAT. EST. 2012 BY @KLEPTONES.
June 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
accordionbruce.bsky.social
#Accordion Ninja button/badges 🪗🥷 from a joke someone shared years ago
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The latest are #bandoneon register “Tango Ninjas”
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#Tango
Various accordion/organ register switch symbols with their circles, dots and lines. With humorous subheadings joking on how the dots make them look like little ninja faces with various expressions. “Ninja,” “Surprized Ninja,” “Pirate Ninja” (has one eye) etc. A “Tango Ninja” has a square box around it rather than round, and the low/middle ‘bandoneon’ reed symbol).
May 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
accordionbruce.bsky.social
Latest Tesla upgrades Musk hopes will impress shareholders
Cybertruck and Tesla rebranded by owners, Toyota and Audi.
April 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
accordionbruce.bsky.social
Gracious, 250 people and the Carnival Brass Band showed up at #Vancouver’s Strathcona #TeslaTakedown!

Will #Tesla complete their planned city-block “repair all the broken teslas in western #Canada” centre here before #Musk goes bankrupt?
Sign: (Tesla logo) This machine funds fascists. (Card going by seeing sign in the background.) Sign: The Poilievre election mobile. Musk endorses Poilievre. Fuck billionaire oligarchs. (Graphic of Musk leaning out of a cyber truck window, giving a Nazi salute.) Signs: Tesla has a Nazi Musk. Tesla is not Welcome in our community. Musk + Poilievre 🩷 Trump Tariffs
March 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
accordionbruce.bsky.social
I co-host the weekly
@accordionnoir.bsky.social Radio/podcast on Vancouver's Co-op Radio. Playlists and episodes at AccordionNoir.org

My accordionrevolution.com book and squeezy swag is available at accordionbruce.etsy.com

I’m most active on #AccordionMastodon 🦣🪗 mastodon.social/@AccordionBr...
My Accordion Revolution book, subtled, "The People's history of The Accordion Man from the Industrial Revolution to rock 'n' roll. Also some stickers with flaming hearts and Accordions. And another sticker with an accordion and text "one less guitar". And postcards of the book cover, and another of a 1930s country western accordion band. Round white button/badges with black accordions and text around the edges with various radical slogans in English, French and Italian, saying, "This Machine Fights Sexism, Ableism, Racism", and "This machine Irritates Fascists" (and a few "Kills fascists.") Also in the center is a flaming heart enamel pin with an accordion. Text, "Annotated Edition." And a card with the cover of my Accordion Revolution book. With two USB flash drives shaped like red and black piano and chromatic accordions.
October 31, 2023 at 11:56 PM