The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #41163   Message #3118893
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
22-Mar-11 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: What are other names for the accordion?
Subject: RE: What are other names for the accordion?
"I hear that Lead Belly called his a Windjammer."

Windjammer was a name used in Australia by early German Settlers (1800s) for a certain type of diatonic button box. The labeled period photos I have seen of players show often a fairly large box, with anything up to 7 pull stops. I was of the impression that it was a brand name (it was commonly used in certain Aussie areas), but I have no documentation to hand.

This was decades before the tales of Leadbelly calling his small instrument by that name.

Robin