All posts tagged “diatonic button accordion”

May 8, 2010
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Viras and Corridinhos

I’m sending this post out to Bayou Child. These guys are playing a vira. This is typical of the way this dance is played. Portuguese players typically use triple-row boxes with three voices tuned to a wide-open musette for that carnival tremelo effect you hear… Read More

April 28, 2010
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Mazurka

The following is from Wikipedia: The folk origins of the mazurek are two other Polish musical forms—the slow kujawiak, and the fast oberek. The mazurek is always found to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note (quaver) pair, or an ordinary eighth note pair… Read More