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We learn about the ins and outs of one of Earth's most awesome instruments, THE ACCORDION!, from Moldovan musician Stanislav Culcicovschi.

The accordion is a "squeezebox" that creates a sound when a musician squeezes air out of “the bellows” across reeds. Accordions vary in construction but all have buttons or keys, much like a piano keyboard, that the accordionist uses to play the melody. The first accordions appeared in the earliest 20th century in Germany, Austria and Russia and quickly became a staple of several genres of folk music. Portable and versatile, this "people's instrument" traveled readily with European emigrants as they settled worldwide.

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