The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101963 Message #2062265
Posted By: Jack Campin
28-May-07 - 05:30 AM
Thread Name: Dumb Accordion Question
Subject: RE: Dumb Accordion Question
This is the best short history of the accordion I've seen on the web:
http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/history/birth.html
Krisnik's instrument of the 1770s is very similar to the present-day Indian harmonium, basically an accordion with only one keyboard.
See also
http://www.accordions.com/index/his/his_acc_his.shtml
for some later developments.
There is MUCH more in the articles in the New Grove.