accordion

The accordion it's a instrument from music that is part of the group of wind instruments. It has a bellows closed by boxes at its ends, which house different keys or keys.

In the right-handed snare, the accordion has a fingerboard that may have buttons (in the case of the chromatic accordion) or keys similar to those of the piano (in the so-called piano accordion). With the left hand, the musician can touch other buttons that serve to chords accompaniment and for low sounds.

Unlike other wind instruments, the accordion does not require that the person blow to generate sound. The accordion has a mechanism that, when the player closes or opens it, allows air to pass through its structure and propel various reeds. The keys make it possible to choose what kind of sound you get.

The origins of the accordion date back to the first decades of the XIX century. Its development meant that, with the weather, similar instruments emerged although with different characteristics. In this context, it is common for many people to confuse the accordion with the bandoneon or with the concertina.

One of the reasons for this confusion revolves around the relative complexity of the accordion compared to other instruments, especially with regard to its design: since much of its keys They are hidden under the hands of the musician, the public cannot appreciate the instrument in its entirety, and it is common for them to ignore certain basic details of its structure, something that does not happen with the piano or violin, for example.

Regarding the bandoneon, it is another wind instrument, from the group free reed, which is related to the concertina (defined in the next paragraph). Its appearance is rectangular and its doorbell It is very distinctive: anyone who has had the opportunity to listen to these three instruments does not usually mistake the sound they produce. Interestingly, the original term in German is written bandonion, and it was in the Río de la Plata where the i was replaced by a and, although in everyday speech people tend to pronounce it as a i.

The concertina, for its part, is also a free reed instrument, and its creation has two important milestones: its first appearance took place in 1829, but almost two decades later a patent with certain improvements in its design. It generally has a series of buttons on each of its two ends, which are pressed in different directions from those of the accordion: in the concertina they are parallel to the bellows, while in the accordion they are perpendicular.

Although some say that to play the accordion it is necessary to have advanced musical knowledge, there are also those who invite anyone who is curious about the instrument to venture into learning. The type of accordion most used by beginners is the piano, mentioned above.

The accordion is currently used in a large number of musical genres, such as the Meringue, the cumbia, the chamamé and the cueca. The Mexican Julieta Venegas is one of the most popular accordionists. On Argentina, "Chango" Spasiuk Y Antonio Tarragó Ros they are two outstanding musicians who play the accordion.

It should be noted that, according to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), in some countries the concept of accordion is used to refer to the notes that a student hides in an assessment to be able to access the information without the teacher seeing it. Accordion, in this case, is synonymous with chop or machete, depending on the region.