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An A to Z of the
Accordion, Volume 2
 Published in November 2005, this book
is another celebration of the accordion & its close relatives in Great
Britain and Ireland, with a look at the wider international picture - using
entirely new material.
In hardback, it is fully illustrated with over 250 photographs and pictures. As
the title suggests, Volume 2 presents a second look at the Accordion World
with a varied selection of articles. The Story of the Accordion Bands; Accordion Heritage; Which Accordion
– Button or Piano?; Accordions in the Cinema; Accordion Tales & Trivia;
The Art of Accompaniment; Bellows Control (Rosemary Wright); Bellows Shake;
BCC# British Chromatic Accordion (John Kirkpatrick); Continental Chromatic
Accordion; Diatonics & Dancing; English Country Dance Playing;
French Musette Stars, Past & Present; Gerald Crossman meets Pietro Frosini;
Harmonicas & Popular Music in the 1960s; A History of the Accordion
Magazines; Humour; Inside Your Accordion; Instrument Reviews; Ireland’s
Accordion Heritage; Jazz on the Accordion; A History of the Concertina;
Landmark Recordings; Looking After Your Accordion; Making the Most of Your
Practice Sessions; Memorising; Memory Lane; Musette & Java; The Mystique
of Maigret; Playing for Scottish Country Dance Classes; A Pictorial Tribute to
Jimmy Shand; Roland V Accordion; Scottish Scene; Some Hints On Sight Reading
(Gerald Crossman); Tango; Technique (Charles Camilleri); Toralf Tollefsen’s
Last UK Appearance; A Tribute to Graham Romani; UK Accordionists; World
Champions; Castelfidardo in World War Two and Yesteryear…plus much more fill
this absorbing read.
Biographies include Bruno, Claudio,
Emilio and Umberto Allodi, Tom Alexander, Ken Astin, George Barton, Harriet
Bartlett, David Batty, Syd Baxter, Alan Bell, David Bowen, Joe Burke, Capaldi
Brothers, Giancarlo Caporilli, Paul Chamberlain, Bernadette Conlon, James
Crabb, Dean Crouch, Bobby Crowe, Luke Daniels, John Douglas, Shirley Evans,
Mick Foster, Geraldo, Rob Gordon, Conway Graves, George Harris, Desmond A.
Hart, Alan Helm (Germany), Alan Helm (Scotland), Edward Hession, Max Houliston,
Jim Johnstone, Harley Jones, Lisa-Lee Leslie, Ken Longley, Larry Macari, Roman
Mondryk, Eddie Moors, Jenny Neal, Eamonn O’Neal, Gordon Pattullo, Brian
Peters, Astor Piazzolla, Sam Pirt, David Price, Andrew Rankine, John Romero,
Nikolai Ryskov, Frank Skilton, Peter Soave, Paolo Soprani, James Stewart, Rob
Thorn, Arthur Tracy, John Trigg, Art Van Damme, Charles Wheatstone, Colin
Whitfield, Bernard Wrigley & others – plus the ‘memoirs’ of Jack
Emblow.
UK - £15 + £4 postage/packing (cheques payable to Rob Howard) –
Return of post service (Limited numbers of copies of the first book An A to Z
of the Accordion & related instruments still available)
Rob Howard, 42 Avondale Road, Edgeley, Stockport, Cheshire SK3 9NY
(0161) 480 8858
Email:
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