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cd cover Global Accordion Early Recordings
$17.99 (Wergo 2001)

26 rare 78RPM recordings from Africa, Latin America, the US, the Caribbean and Europe show a wild diversity of styles and instruments.

"Suffice it to say the instrument's assets - portability, volume and being relatively easy to learn - ensured such immediate popularity that within a few decades it had become assimilated into (and on occasion had dramatically transformed) most musical traditions - even in some of the remotest areas around the globe. [Cover picture] And 26 fascinating examples of this unlikely phenomenon, taken from commercial recordings made between 1927-48 have been compiled on this splendid CD by Christoph Wagner... Wonderful and varied music, fine sound, stunning illustrations and interesting notes." - Musical Traditions

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