Bandoneon
The was created in Germany in 1860 by Alfred Arnold for the churches didn't have organ.
It's a wind instrument. It has 37 bottoms in a side and 33 bottoms in the other side. Each bottoms produce a different sound opening and closing. The immigrants brought a lot of bandoneons between 1870 and 1920. The musicians incorporated this instrument to the tango. Today it's the most used instrument in the tango.
Roberto Garzón started to play bandoneon when he was twelve years old. His mother loved this. Today Roberto is seventy seven. He likes tango and he loves his instrument.
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Bandoneon
The bandoneon was created in Germany in 1860 by Alfred Arnold for the churches that didn't have organs.It's a wind instrument. It has 37 bottoms buttons on one side and 33 bottoms on the other side. Each button produces a different sound opening and closing. The immigrants brought a lot of bandoneons between 1870 and 1920. The musicians incorporated this instrument into the tango. Today it's the most used instrument in the tango.
Roberto Garzón started to play bandoneon when he was twelve years old. His mother loved this. Today Roberto is seventy seven. He likes tango and he loves his instrument.
Hello Alejandro. I enjoyed reading this and learning about the bandoneon. I don´t think I have ever seen a bandoneon in the United States. The accordion is more familiar to us. In the 1950's, accordions were quite popular here -- my mother was a teenager then and she and many of her friends played the accordion. But then musical styles changed, and it became less common to hear accordion music. Now many people have immigrated to the United States from Mexico and so we hear the accordion a little more often, as accordions are sometimes played in mariachi bands or in music on the Spanish radio stations.
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