A page of links about Irish-style button accordions in particular, concertinas as played in Irish music, and to a lesser extent other button accordions and accordions in general.
Updated 15 January 2007
Under construction. Broken links, corrections and suggested additions? Please .
Websites
Web forums and lists
History
Accordion players
Concertina players
Festivals, gatherings and conventions
Accordion makers
Concertina makers
Dealers, repairers and tuners
Used boxes & tinas for sale
Unsorted links
Han Speek's Irish box page. Bass layouts, some info. on technique and ornamentation. Pieces with suggested fingerings for C#/D learners.
L'accordéon irlandais. French site with general info. on players and makers. Wanted and for sale ads.
The Irish melodeon
Melodeon.net. UK site on diatonics by John Spiers. Not updated for several years, but has keyboard layouts for many systems, and reviews of a few makes.
Concertina.net
FAQ concertinas!
Concertina library
Sound clips, apparently. (Haven't been there...)
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Squeezeboxes in Irish trad. A Chiff and Fipple forum.
IrishBox group on Yahoo
IrishTradAccord group on Yahoo
Diatonic box group on Yahoo. Non-Irish traditions.
Diato group on Yahoo. En franssâ.
Melodeon.net forums. Chiefly inhabited by D/G players.
Concertina.net forums. The place for talk about dwarf six-sided squeezeboxes.
TheSession.org.
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History of half-step boxes as used in Irish music by Stephen Chambers in a discussion at concertina.net forums.
Graeme Smith's paper on B/C box players in Australia. Ethnomusicology. Stimulating stuff.
History of Paolo Soprani boxes by Sean Quinn
Extracts from "Histoire de l'accordéon" (book by the late Pierre Monichon).
Summary of above work, with pics.
International accordion museum, Castelfidardo, Italy
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Will Zarwell's Irish Accordion Discography
List of prominent players - info. in French
Jackie Daly
Joe Burke
Tony MacMahon
Josephine Marsh
Mairtin O Connor
Sharon Shannon and also here.
Billy McComiskey - videos of performances at the Kennedy Center.
Patty Furlong
Paddy O'Brien (Offaly)
James Keane
Dan Possumato (melodeon player)
Simon Melia
Peter Browne
Johnny Connolly
Paul Brock
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Noel Hill
Kitty Hayes. Grand dame of Clare concertina and her recent CD with piper Peter Laban.
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Northeast Squeeze-In, Massachusetts. Annual September gathering of tina and box players.
Eigse Mrs Crotty, Kilrush, Co. Clare. Festival in honour of famed concertina player, Elizabeth Crotty (d. 1960).
Carrefour mondial de l'accordéon de Montmagny. World accordion festival near Quebec City.
Dino Baffetti
Beltrami
Castagnari
Mengascini
Serenellini
Paolo Soprani
Makers chiefly of "organetti" - Abruzzi-style melodeons
Alessandrini
Giustozzi You can write to them in English - and they'll answer.
Giuseppe Janni & Figli
Marrara
List of French makers with contact info. (also tuners and repairers)
Cartmeleon, Borelli (some parts of this site may not display correctly unless you are using IE or Firefox)
Interview with Bertrand Gaillard in French. BG has no web site - contact info. can be found in the list of French makers above.
Bernard Loffet
Maugein
Saltarelle
Stelvio
Serafini
Akkordeonwerkstatt - Marco & Daniel Untersee. Swiss makers, site in German
Zdenek Koutny. Delicia and Lignatone accordions
Cairdin
Paddy Clancy
Kincora
Streb e-melodeons
Baldoni
Hohner USA
Irish Dancemaster
Peter Hyde
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Carroll Concertinas
Frank Edgley
Dana Johnson (Kensington Concertinas)
R. Morse and Co.
Bob Tedrow
Jeff Thomas
Jürgen Suttner
Karen and Wim Wakker (the Concertina Connection)
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The Button Box, Amherst, MA, USA. Sales and service of all types of squeezeboxes.
The Box Office, NJ, USA. Specialized in Irish-style boxes.
Main Squeeze, NY, NY, USA
Musique Gagné, Québec City (concessionaire for Saltarelle and others)
John's Accordion Service, Windsor, ON, Canada
Accordéons Excellence, Montreal, QC, Canada
Yves Hélie, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. Tuner and repairman.
All about accordions. Sean Garvey, Dublin. Dealer in Paolo Soprani, Serenellini, Castagnari & Mengascini.
The Music Room, UK. Large retailer.
The Box Place - Theo Gibb, UK. Tuner and repairman, used and restored boxes for sale.
Rees Wesson, Wales, UK. Specializing in Castagnari.
Melodeons on line, UK. Dealer in Castagnari, Serenellini, Verde boxes.
Barleycorn Concertinas, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Reconditioned vintage concertinas.
La Maison de l'accordéon, France
List of French tuners and repairers, and makers
La Boîte de l'accordéon (Laurent Jarry, Montreuil, France)
Saltarelle (Thierry Beuze, nr. Quimper, Brittany)
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Current stock of Irish accordions at the Button Box, Amherst, MA. Used and new.
Button Box stock of concertinas. Mostly new.
Theo Gibb's current stock of used boxes, Gateshead, England. Usually a few Irish models on sale.
Theo's concertinas.
Barleycorn Concertinas, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Reconditioned vintage concertinas.
Wanted and for sale - Brittany. Site is in French. Mostly G/C boxes, occasional Irish tunings.
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Accordion-concertina Repair & Technicians' School, Superior, WI, USA. Learn to repair and tune boxes.
Accordions worldwide. Don't go there!
Squeezebox sound clips page. Enter at own risk.
Chamaric tuning software. French application designed for tuners.
Hans Palm's accordion page.
Tuning, wetness, etc. By Gilbert Hoek van Dijke, ed. Wendy Morrison
Jax' free-reed instruments page
Montmagny accordion festival, Quebec (September)
Stuff about reeds
Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments
Accordion repair and tuning info.
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