Jax RCFB Free Reed Musical Instruments Page Here are links to some sites relevant to players of the free reed family of instruments which includes harmonica, concertina and accordion. The primary focus is on the hand-held bellows-driven free reed instruments: accordion and concertina. Special emphasis is given to the Hayden Duet Concertina . You will also find here a number useful links to a wide variety of music topics. Inclusion of any individual or organization here is not intended to disparage any individual or organization not appearing on this page. The selection is personal and eclectic. Please if you have Web pages of immediate interest to free reed players and enthusiasts! Other Disclaimers

The Free Music Movement

• copyleft is the home page for Miriam Rainsford's book copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom?
• Electronic Frontier Foundation Open Licenses Archive includes a model "Open Audio" license.
• laymusic.org is dedicated to providing resources for people who want playing or singing music to be a large part of their daily lives.
• Open Studios is an open source movement to provide recording to communities and to replenish the public domain.

Info

• Accordion
  • Accordion FAQ
  • Accordion discussion group online
  • Accordions Worldwide
    • Le même site en français
  • Accordion Links.Com
  • Gary Blair Ceilidh Band . Gary is quite the accordion fancier. Check out his nine-row chromatic.
  • L'accordéon diatonique et la Bretagne
  • Cajun Accordion Discussion
  • Cipher for Chromatic Button Accordion is didaction based on a universal system for describing chromatic instruments.
  • Peter Ganther 's Home Page (auf Deutsch) is largely devoted to accordion, including Club and Steirische, with layout charts.
  • Nauchis Igrat' na Garmoshke is a Russian site about learning to play the Garmon (a Russian diatonic accordion).
  • HAUSPOZ the Basque Association for the Accordion.
  • Historia del Acordeón en el Folclor Vallenats
  • CrossSound's History of the Accordion
  • History of the Accordion (by Baldoni Accordions)
  • Outline of the History of the Accordion (by Petosa Accordions)
  • Informator Akordeonisty is a rich source of general information about the accordion. In Polish / po polsku
  • Livenskaya Garmoshka is a Russian-language site dedicated to the interesting national-regional accordion variant called the Livenka or Livenskaya Garmoshka.
  • Melodeon.Net is "a resource for players of melodeons and diatonic accordions".
  • A Musician's Guide to the Club System Accordion
  • A Musician's Guide to the Tex-Mex Accordion / Acordeon Tejano / Acordeon Conjunto Norteño
  • Hans Palm 's Accordion Page has info on modern chromatic accordions such as the Uniform Keyboard.
  • Reyes' Forum for discussion of Tex-Mex Accordion.
  • Dr. William Schimmel has an accordion-centric music website.
    • Here's his Accordion Forum on Multicity.com
  • Swiss accordions
  • Weltmeister Club is an online discussion forum about Weltmeister accordions and harmonicas.
• Concertina
  • The life in the bandonion - the Bandonion Freunde Essen is a marvellous essay on the impact of the bandonion / bandoneon on working class Germans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • Concertina FAQ
  • Concertina Spotter's Guide helps the novice identify the variant.
  • The Chemnitzer Concertina Novice is a great site about the Chemnitzer/Bandoneon/Bandonion variant of the instrument, put up on the Web by Theodore M. Kloba who got bit by the concertina bug but good! Site also has great info about all kinds of squeezeboxes
    • Bandoneon Key Layouts. Links courtesy of the "Chemnitzer Novice" Theodore M. Kloba, who writes ``If it is bisonoric, it's almost certainly the "Rio de la Plata" (a.k.a. "Rheinische Tonlage") layout, which is much favored by tango players to the "Einheits" (72 button) layout or earlier, more limited ones.''
      • Chromatic
      • Rheinische Tonlage
  • Chemnitzer Information from Loren Schaeffler has fingering charts, explanations, sound samples, and images of this bisonoric duet concertina of the American Midwest.
  • Le Concertina Anglo Irish en France
  • Concertina.Com is Robert Gaskin's comprehensive informational site subsuming his old Maccann site.
  • Concertina Connection
  • Concertina FAQ by Chris Timson
  • ConcertinaMusic.com is the Chemnitzer site formerly known as "Polish Fireball Concertina Music Site".
  • Concertina.Net is a great journal/forum/listserver online resource for players!
    • Concertina.Net web forums
  • Concertina Review is a Japanese concertina page.
  • Dan Gruetzmarcher's Concertina Page is the Chemnitzer playing star's personal site.
  • Die Deutsche Konzertina in German and English includes tutorials .
  • Paul Hardy's Concertinas is the personal site of a collector.
  • Horniman Museum keeps historical business records dating back to the 1840's from concertina maker C. Wheatstone & Co .
  • International Concertina Association
  • Jax RCFB Hayden Duet Concertina page is my page about this most modern of concertina fingering systems.
  • Lithgow Concertina Gathering
  • The Maccann Duet Concertina documents one of the classic fingering systems of Duet concertina and is a fabulous resource for detailed research in concertina history.
  • Howard Mitchell's Concertina Articles includes chord charts for G/C Anglo-Irish concertina.
  • Don Nichol's Home Page is largely about concertinas.
  • PiedPiper's Learning to Play the Anglo Concertina is an enthusiast's personal autodidaction and improvisation page.
    
  • The Raving Concertina Lunatic
  • Virtual English Concertina which is a Flash plugin to let you play a "concertina" online which produces sound patches from a genuine concertina.
• General
  • Accordiana also contains all kinds of free reed info.
  • Accordina is a free-reed wind instrument, sort of a chromatic button correspondent to the piano-keyed Hohner Melodica ®.
  • Center for the Study of Free Reed Instruments at City University of New York.
  • The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. is about the entire family of free reed instruments.
    • Includes Henry Doktorsky's neat chart, Taxonomy of Musical Instruments.
  • Noel Cragg's Keyboard Layouts for Accordion, Concertina, &al.
  • Folkmusic.ch is a Swiss site which has lots of great info about European folk music, and thus, about free reed instruments.
    • Swiss accordions
  • Diatonics and Bandoneons by Wessel Van De Loo.
    
  • Free Reed Records and Music Concertina Research and Resources
  • Wendy Morrison has a home page dealing with accordions and concertinas.
  • MusicPlayer.com has all kinds of interesting forums.
  • Musikinstrumenten-Museum Markneukirchen
  • La Page Trad site français à propos de l'accordéon.
  • Polish American Journal Polka Page
  • Reed Organs for those wonderful instruments, mostly antique, that used to be found in many parlors.
    • The Reed Organ Society
  • Squeezebox 101 is a "field guide" to hand-held, bellows-drive free-reed musical instruments.
  • Squeezeboxes is a great link site, including Squeezeboxes on the Silver Screen .
  • World Music Instrument Gallery Free Reed Pages has pictures and info of unusual free reed instruments (ibawu, sheng, pijoom).
• Harmonica
  • Diatonic Harmonica Reference (Warning! Obnoxious popunder advertising windows!)
  • Pat Missin's Home Page is all about harmonica.
• Harmonium and Melodeon (antique pedal harmonium)
  • John Brown's Melodeon
  • Reed Organ Society
  • Was Organisten, Dirigenten und Musikdramaturgen vom Harmonium wissen sollten ("What Organists, Directors and Musical Dramatists should know about Harmonium") is a PDF of the basic points of construction and performance.
    
• Melodica
  • Melodicas.com covers the interesting Hohner "piano harmonica".

Lessons

• Balkan Dance and Music Workshop
• Don Benito Bandoneon Method
• Ben Bogart performs and teaches Bandoneon.
• The Music Teacher's List is a searchable database of teachers in the USA and internationally.
• ZydeCoach teaches Zydeco dance and music.

Makers, Vendors, and Repair

• A. C. Norman & Co.
• Accordion Center, N.Y.
• Accordion Connection
• Accordion Heaven
• Accordion Man Anders H. Bakke assembles and custom tunes piano accordions.
• Accordion Repair and Tuning Home Page with Free Advice is the engaging title of the site of repairman/tuner Ike's "Boxpital".
• Accordionmaker.com is the page of builder of button boxes Franz van der Aa.
• Accordions Online sells new and used accordions.
• Akkordeon Service Len Killick for sales and repairs in Germany.
• Applied Microphone Technlogy, Inc. vends small microphones for accordion and other instruments.
• Baffetti Accordions makes all kinds including a line of Club System diatonics.
• Baldoni Accordions
• Bandeon Maker Harry Geuns makes all sorts of free reed instruments.
• Barleycorn Concertinas
• Bayan & Garmon Makers(Bayan is the Russian national B-System Chromatic Button Accordion; Garmon is the Russian National Diatonic Button Accordion)
  • Akko
  • Jupiter
  • Melodia
    • Melodia has another page at http://www.accordions.com/tula/ .
  • Shuisky
• BluesBox holds the patent on pitch-bending accordions.
• Boaz Accordions is a full-service accordion shop in Berkeley, California.
• La boite d'accordéon en France est un lieu entièrement consacré aux instruments de musique à anches libres : accordéons, bandonéons, concertinas, accordinas, instruments de musique mécanique à anches libres.
• Bon Cajun Instruments
• Box Office specializes in Irish diatonic button accordions.
• Browns Music
• Brünner Musica is the parent company of Stagi (Bastari) concertinas.
  
• ButtonAccordion.com sells ... guess what!?
• ButtonBox a music shop on the Net specializing in free reed instruments.
• Cairdin Accordions sells lovely Irish accordions, which is hardly surprising, since cairdin is the Irish word for "accordion".
• Castiglione Accordions
• Castle Accordion (Warning -- obnoxious animated .GIF title can tie up your browser.)
• Cavagnolo Accordion
• Chalula Accordion Pads hand made with beautiful designs if your accordion doesn't have a bellows guard pad yet!
• J.L. Dyer Music has inexpensive 20-button and 30-button Anglo concertinas.
• Edgley Concertinas for hand-made concertinas and repairs.
• Fallon Instrument Cases specializes in cases for Uilleann Pipes and Concertina
• Fisitalia Accordion Manufacturers
• Groff's Music Shop
• Harmonicas & Stuff
• Harp Depot has accordion cases for good prices.
  
• Henk Kuik Accordeons builder and also accordeon museum.
• Hermann Jamnik Harmonikabau specializes in Steirischer accordion.
• Herrington Brothers Concertinas
• Hobgoblin Music
• Hohner USA
  • Hohner Germany
• Homewood Musical Instrument Company
  • Visit Homewood Musical Instrument Company with Jax!
• House of Musical Traditions Squeezebox Catalog
• Hyde Accordions
• Italo-American Accordion Company including very lovely chromatic button accordions.
• John's Accordion Service
• Karlitos Way Acordeons
• Jim Laabs Music
• Lark in the Morning has musical instruments from all over the world.
• Orgelbau Aug. Laukhuff for pipe organs and pipe organ parts.
• Leggerio Sheet Music has arrangements for accordion.
  
• Louny Accordions in the Czech Republic
• Main Squeeze accordion shop in NYC with its own wide line of piano, button, and chromatic button accordions.
• Mally's Traditional Music Store has not only instruments but books of instruction and books on repair.
• Marcus Music makers of traditional folk instruments including concertina.
• Mastersound adds midi and amplification to accordions.
• Melodeon Tuning and Repairs by Martyn White (Essex UK)
  
• Microvox specializes in microphones for exotic instruments.
• Music In Scotland offers a wide range of CelticTrad recorded music especially accordion and concertina.
  
• Musical Instrument Makers Forum for discussion among builders.
• Monarch Accordion Company in Denver.
• Music Magic Accordion and Midi Cyber Store
• The Music Room is a British store (including online) for traditional musical instruments.
• Johannes Pascher's Der Bau einer diatonischen Harmonika "The building of a diatonic accordion" shows some lovely wooden instruments and has some great tuning theory info.
• Petosa Accordions in Seattle, WA.
• Prairie Dog Accordion Shop.
• Ranco Accordions makes beautiful piano accordions, chromatic button accordions, and a few varieties of diatonic.
  
• Reyes Accordions is particularly into button boxes, conjunto norteño, etc.
  • Forum for discussion of Tex-Mex Accordion.
• Ron's Accordions
• Saltarelle Accordion is a French maker of diatonic and chromatic button accordions as well as piano accordions.
• Savoy Music Center is Marc Savoy, world-famous Cajun accordion performer and builder.
• Schaumanufaktur für Akkordeons
• Seydel Mund-Harmonikas has been making mouth harmonicas for five (5) generations.
• Showman's Strap sells accordion straps.
• Sam W. Shublom Accordion Parts and Supplies
• Schneeberg Master Diatonic Accordion Builders (Harmonikabau Meisterwerkstatt Udo Schneeberg) is a German firm manufacturing lovely diatonic instruments including Club System and Steirische.
• Smythe's Accordion Center in Oakland.
• Sonus in Denmark has an interesting accordion internal microphone.
• Suttner Concertinas
• Syn-Cordion has inexpensive new and used instruments "90% of which are Italian-made and 10% Chinese-made" according to Al Iorio, scion of this family business which is almost 100 years old.
• Tirikitrauki sells the Basque accordion, the Trikitixa.
• Victoria Accordions
  • Their Vibrandoneon mouth-blown button free-reed instrument is interesting!
• Weltmeister Online is the web site of one of the world's leading manufacturers of free-reed instruments.
• C. Wheatstone & Co. Ltd. the original (1825) makers of the concertina.
• Yangzhong Accordion Factory for those who wonder where Chinese accordions (e.g, YINGJIE brand) and concertinas come from!
• Alan Young Accordion Tuning and Repair on the Isle of Wight.

Music

• Miscellaneous
  • Accordion and Concertina sound clips (aimed more at demonstrating the instruments themselves than the songs) from Dan Murdry.
  • Anglo-Concertina.net is Henk van Aalten's collection of links to concertina sound files on the Net.
    
  • Annual Free Reed Festival Online
  • Brede's Accordion Midi File Collection (Warning: annoying popunder advertising )
  • ConcertinaMusic.com has, as one might infer, music arrangements for the concertina, especially the Chemnitzer.
  • Independent Music Cafe is live music and video band chat on the Web!
  • Inner Music Experience is Ron Kurz's page suggesting ways to inner peace via music.
  • Music for Accordion sells musical arrangements for accordion digitally delivered to you!
  • Odd Music is just that!
  • SpaceAgePop has an interesting discography of some older accordion music.
• African
  • Maghrebi (Northwest Africa)
    • Alwatan.ma (Hassan II Foundation) has .mp3's of interesting Morrocan music, including the recently popularized Gnawa music.
• Americana
  • American Sheet Music 1870-1885 (United States Library of Congress)
  • Center for American Music
  • Historic American Sheet Music Collection at Duke University
  • Lester S. Levy Collection at the Eisenhower Library of the Johns Hopkins University
  • Smithsonian Institute Folklife and Cultural Heritage Home Page
• Blues and Folk
  • Folk and Roots for the UK folk scene.
  • Mudcat is a great blues and folk site.
• Cajun/French/Quebecoise
  • Cajun and Zydeco in Nederlands
  • Cajun Radio
  • CMTRA Le Centre de Musiques Traditionnelles Rhône-Alpes
    • Entretien - Bertrand Gaillard ou le perfectionniste de l'accordéon
  • Conseil québécois de la musique
  • Gadjo drom a swing manouche.
  • Musiques traditionnelles en liberté has traditional music.
    • The same site in English
• Irish/UK/US/EuroTraditional
  • Cantaria is a library of bardic folk songs.
  • The Celtic Lyrics Collection
  • The Ceili House Band Tunesin ABC format converted to images of the sheet music.
  • Ceolas has hundreds of tunes transcribed in various notations.
  • Kindred Irish Traditional and American Folk Music
  • Mad for Trad sells CD's of Irish trad and tutorials, but also offers practice tunes with notation online.
  • Music Scotland sells trad music CD's and also has free MP3's to download.
  • Music.Shetland knows the score regarding music from the Shetland Isles.
  • Rambling House has Irish music introductions, history and resources.
  • Rick's MGV Harmonia and Music Archive Page
  • Richard Robinson's Tunebook has Scots tunes, Irish tunes, Scandinavian, English, French, Balkan and more.
  • Scottish Internet Radio has not only music, but also Gaelic lessons!
  • Session has tunes and discussion.
  • Sessioneer has tunes and schedules for jam sessions (mostly UK).
  • TuneFinder has all the traditional tunes with a search engine and a choice of output formats ranging from ABC notation to PDF files.
  • Yet Another Digital Tradition Page has tunes, often with the music.
• Jazz
  • All About Jazz
  • Brazilian Jazz is Malandro Records's site with samples of their wares.
  • Denver Jazz Club
  • Django Reinhardt's Gypsy Jazz Music
  • Europe Jazz Network
  • JazzBooks.Com - Jamey Aebersold Music
    • Jazz Handbook download , free of charge
  • Jazz Improvisation Primer
  • Jazz Online
  • Jazz Review
  • Jazz Trumpet Transcriptions
  • Ralph Patt's Jazz Page
  • Red Hot Jazz Archive is about Jazz before 1930.
  • Seventh String Publishing
• Jewish
  • FreeJewishSheetMusic.com
  • Klezmer for Brass 'n' Wood has concert band arrangements and a network of arrangers, composers and musicians.
    
• Latin/Spanish
  • Atame Archivo de Tablaturas y Acordes de Música en Español
  • Corridos has lyrics to many.
  • Latin American Music Center
  • OpenBoxLatino
  • Paco's Page has Tex-Mex / Norteño music in tablature for the Tex-Mex three-row acordeon.
  • Puro Conjunto is a music store devoted to Tejano Conjunto.
  • The Handbook to Texas Online has wonderful entries on:
    • Música Conjunto
    • Música Norteña
    • Santiago Jimenez
    • Narciso Martínez
  • Todo Tango is dedicated to the Tango.
  • La Tuna in Spain with pasodobles, etc.
• Learning
  • JANPress Publications was started by an accordionist and is dedicated to accordions.
  • Mel Bay Publications has lotsa accordion and concertina books.
• Middle Eastern
  • Introduction to Middle Eastern Music
• Polka
  • Digital Polkas is an online site and forum for polka enthusiasts.
• Pop
  • Grateful Dead Lyric and Song Finder
• Radio
  • Accordion Radio broadcasts 100% accordion music 24 hours per day.
• Rembetiko/Rembetika/Rebetiko/Rebetika
  • History of Rembetika Music by Matt Barnett.
  • Hydra Rebetika Conference 2002 is coming up in October of 2002 on the Greek island of Hydra.
  • Institute for Rembetiko Dechiotification and Bouzouki Detetrachorisation is a brilliantly funny site dissing "fat" restaurant music versus lean original rembetiko.
    • Now has an online forum !
  • Kithara has over 3,000 Greek song lyrics. Site is entirely in Greek.
  • Music Library of Greece
  • Rebetiko.Org
  • Rembetika page of L. Kritos are a must-visit.
    • Kritos incidentally offers a good exposition of the dromoi , the musical scales on which rembetiko is based.
  • The Rebetika has a lovely history of Rebetiko.
  • Rembetiko Online has MPEG3's of great artists, pictures, history, a forum (all in Greek).
    • The Greek Alphabet
• Russian
  • Noty dlja Bajana-Akkordeona is sheet music for the Bayan chromatic button accordion in TIFF images.
• Shanty
  • J.S. Ward's Sea Shanty Page
  • Shanties and Sea Songs
  • Shanty with emphasis on arrangements for free reed instruments!
• World/International
  • World Music Portal is about music around the world.

Organizations

• American Accordion Musicological Society
• American Musical Instrument Society
• ASCAP
• BMI
• National Music Publishers' Association / Harry Fox Agency Mechanical Licensing Page where you can pay royalties for your recorded covers online.
• Musicians' Union
  • American Federation of Musicians Local 1000 ``was set up to serve the special needs of touring musicians, particularly those in the "folk" and "acoustic" music fields''.
  • Denver Music Association (AFM/AFL-CIO affiliate)

Other Instruments

Sites about various musical instruments other than free reed, sites that are too good to miss.

• American
  • Brad's Page of Steel is devoted to acoustic and electric lap steel guitar.
• Electronic
  • Yamaha Electronic Instrument Manuals in English
• Irish, Scottish & Traditional
  • Fiddling
    • Here are some good Fiddling books I've enjoyed:
      • The Cajun Fiddle by Craig Duncan, Mel Bay ISBN 0-7866-3139-2
        • w/CD, 63 songs, very good!
      • Traditional Scottish Fiddliing , Tag na teud ISBN 1-871931-38-X
        • w/CD, 68 songs, ***** EXCELLENT for classicist!!
      • O'Neills Music of Ireland , Oak, ISBN 0-8256-0173-8
        • 1000 tunes, timeless classic w/ some instruction!
  • Guitar and Bouzouki
    • Jean Banwarth's Irish Guitar and Bouzouki
    • Han's Irish Bouzouki Page
  • Other Frets
    • Bass Gear Review Archive features online reviews submitted by players.
    • Bass Player Magazine
    • Tenor Banjo FAQ
    • Irish Tenor Banjo Links
  • Harp Family
    • Hooked on Dulcimers is the page of an artisan who makes appalachian dulcimers, including a fully fretted bouzouki-like instrument.
    • Kitchen Musician Hammered Dulcimer, Living History, Scottish Fiddle & Traditional Music
      • Great collection of trad sheet music!
        
  • Irish Whistle / Pennywhistle / Tin Whistle
    • Busman Whistles manufacture a mighty fancy Irish Whistle.
    • Chiff and Fipple is a loony yet useful tin whistle advocacy site.
• Greek (Bouzouki / Baglama / Tzoura [Jura] / Oud)
  • Bouzouki World is the maker's own page and has a discussion forum.
  • D'Addario String Catalog has a Bouzouki set.
  • Kalis & Co.
  • Sam's Bouzouki Page
  • Skeezo online accessories for the Bouzouki.
• Orchestral
  • Mountain Peak Music has very interesting and modern books of exercises aimed at intonation and breathing, all books written by degreed professionals.
  • The Orchestra : A User's Manual
    
  • Brass
    
    • Al's Middle Brass Pages are great!
      • Mellophone
      • Tenor Horn
    • Arizona State University Horn Studio
    • Bach Trumpet Mouthpiece Size Comparison Chart
    • Brass Instrument Acoustics is a scholarly exposition of physics from the University of New South Wales.
    • Elements of Brass Instrument Construction from the National Music Museum
    • DallasMusic.org is a site of brass info, esp. useful w/r/t practice mutes.
    • Norman Bewley is a champion of Low Brass (Trombone - Tuba - Euphonium) and his site has fingering and slide position charts.
    • Low Brass Fingering Charts (Trombone - Tuba - Euphonium etc) by Dr. Micah Everett. ULM Division of Music
      
    • Mark Flegg, Trumpeter has good articles and instruction on trumpet.
    • O.J.'s Trumpet Page is wonderful and has a long article about J.B.Arban.
      
    • Online Trombone Journal
    • Roseville Big Band has lots of neat info about trombone.
      
    • Erhard Schwartz - Musik mit Ophicleide (auf Deutsch) is a wonderful page about the tuba predecessor.
    • Different Models of Trumpet Mutes and their Effects
      
    • Trumcor's Online Store is a world of info about mutes from this great mute manufacturer.
      
    • TrumpetStudio.com has a nice printable trumpet fingering chart.
    • Trumpet care, cleaning and maintenance
      
    • The Tuba is a superb site for this noble brass instrument.
    • Wagner-Tuba.com
      
    • Douglas Yeo's website is possibly the coolest brass website of all. Yeo is bass trombone for Boston Symphony.
  • Percussion
    • Percussive Arts Society
      
  • Strings
    • See our Bowed Strings and Fretless Lutes Page
    • Guitarra Magazine is for the classical player.
    • Here are a couple of sites where you can download free classical guitar sheet music:.
      • Delcamp.net
      • MeanTone Guitar Studio
  • Woodwinds
    • Clarinettes & Saxophones (français)
    • Flutes.tk has hundreds of links of interest to flautists.
      
    • Woodwind Fingering Guide has fingering charts for most orchestral woodwinds.
• Miscellaneous Other Instruments
  • Airhorns has the story on the construction and tonality of railroad airhorns.
  • Gu Zheng is the Chinese zither played by Wu Fei.
  • Hosaphone is the homebuilt labrophone.
  • Nyckelharpa the Swedish hurdy-gurdy-tabbed fiddle.

Performers

• Acoustic Bylines is a clearing house for Colorado acoustic musicians
• Air Accordion
• Ashokan.Org is the home site of Jay Ungar who wrote the poignant and unforgettable Ashokan Farewell.
• Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
• Ben Bogart performs and teaches Bandoneon.
• Bonne Musique Zydeco
• Jeff Sagerman's Bon Tee Cajun Band
• Bracken Rigg Barn Dance Band
• Budowitz plays very early klezmer on authentic instruments including a century-old accordion.
• Mario Bruneau accordionist.
• Roy Carrier is the 3-row-playing patriarch of Zydeco whose sons Chubby and Troy ("Dikki Du") continue the family tradition.
  • Chubby Carrier is one of my favorite Zydeco players with his 3-row Tex-Mex button accordion.
• Music of Colorado is links to many bands and orchestras in Colorado.
  • Jefferson Symphony Orchestra of Jefferson County, Colorado is a volunteer orchestra since 1953.
• Colorado Cajun Dance Band
• Crowd of Bold Sharemen is the quintessential traditional Newfoundland group.
• Daddy Squeeze is the site of accordionist Dan Newton who performs regularly on A Prairie Home Companion .
• Jacques Delaguerre noted Colorado contrabassist and polymusician
  
• Mark Diamond is my favorite Colorado upright bass player.
• Donna the Buffalo features accordion in their band.
• Linda Escobar "La Tejana"
• Fianna Irish Traditional Music
• Gypsy Wrangers performs an eclectic repertoire and features accordion.
• Patrick Harison is a young accordionist (CBA).
• How to Be Your Own Booking Agent
• Keith Frank is a zydeco fusion squeezebox player.
• Noel Hill , a (the?) leading Anglo-Irish concertina player, runs a concertina school.
• Hot Tomatoes play dance music big-band style in Colorado.
• Los Jalapeños "La Nueva Generacion de La Musica Tejana"
• Javamen are into jazz fusion.
• John Kirkpatrick is a renowned Anglo-Irish concertina player.
• Tim Laycock and the New Scorpion Band play folk featuring concertina.
• Loretta's Prodigals Page
• Shane Macgowan
• Jeremiah McLane is a piano accordionist.
• Wendy Morrison is a talented accordionist and multi-instrumentalist.
• The Reals play a bluegrass-tinged rock here in Colorado. I occasionally jam on concertina with members of the band.
  
• Pete St. John is the author of "Fields of Athenry".
• Victor Santos is a world-renowned chromatic button accordion player.
• Aldon Sanders records free reeds as a "one man band".
• Paul Scourfield and Chalktown features Paul on the melodeon.
• Sharon Shannon is a splendid and world-renowned two-row-Irish button accordionist.
• Eugene Simon is a Russian-born Colorado-resident chromatic button accordionist.
  
• Six Steps to the Bar is Mario Kliemann's Irish concertina band. This site has lots of into about concertina activities in Germany.
• Spiers and Boden play melodeon and fiddle.
• Wendy Stanford has a really cute page.
• Stradivarious country dance band features accordion.
  • Check out Howard Mitchell's Concertina Articles .
• Studio Strings are a couple who play many instruments, including accordion, and do session work.
• The Subdudes feature John Magnie on accordion.
• Tom Sullivan is a vocalist and piano accordion player.
• Maestro Juan Tejada's Home Page
• Those Darn Accordions is America's favorite accordion band.
• Los Tigres del Norte are more or less Norteño music's equivalent of the Grateful Dead.
• La Touché Cajun Band
• Beverly Woods is a Hayden Duet Concertina player.
  

Software

• Open Source
  • The abc musical notation language typesets music from a simple alphabetical notation of tunes.
  • Ardour is an open source digital audio workstation.
  • Audacity is an open source sound file editor.
  • LAME Project
  • LibSndFile is a GNU library for reading and writing sound files in many formats.
  • Open Source Audio Library Project
  • Lilypond is a complete TeX-based music typesetting system.
  • MPG123 MP3 player
  • MusicXML is a nominally complete markup language to represent Western music.
  • Solfege is a computer program written to help you practice ear training.
• Freeware (but no source)
  • Scala lets you create and experiment with different pitch tuning systems.
• Commercial
  • Coda / MakeMusic's PrintMusic is the commercial music scoring and printing software I use.
    • Finale Productivity Tips covers Coda's top-line product, Finale .
    • TGI Plugin Collection for Finale
  • Freehand Systems makes a combined hardware/software gadget for electronic sheet music display and entry.
  • MIBAC Music Instruction By A Computer.
    • They also have a nice beginner music theory section on their website.
  • Mozart Music Software
• Users Groups
  • Los Angeles ProTools Users Group

Theory

Unique

• Law Articles for Recording Artists and Song Writers is where Ivan Hoffman, B.A, J.D. lays down the law for composers and performers!
• New England Conservatory of Music Job Bulletin
• Tailored Music is for musicians looking to craft music to specification and sell it.

Venues

• Colorado
  • Acoustic Bylines
  • Bliss Cafe
    
  • Colorado Friends of Cajun and Zydeco Music
  • Colorado Irish Festival
  • The DNote Tavern in Arvada, Colorado, the finest live music venue in Jefferson County, is smoke free, has a great stage and sound system, and is family-friendly place with live music seven days a week.
  • Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge has live jazz 7 nights a week!
  • Denver Live Music lists live music venus in the Denver area.
  • La Dolce Vita Coffeehouse with live music every Friday and Saturday and a great open mike two Saturdays a month!
  • Rock "N" Soul Cafe with live music, including the great Lionel Young - Mark Diamond open jam some Wednesdays.
  • Rocky Mountain Jazz is an informational site which is on top of most performances and jams in the Colorado Front Range.
    
  • Round Midnight with live music most nights.
  • Sousa Band of Colorado
  • Swallow Hill Music in Denver, Colorado
    • Swallow Hill's Café has jam sessions
  • Westword Music Page lets you search for jams, open stages, and performances.
• USA
  • Art Altenburg's Concertina Bar in Milwaukee is devoted to Chemnitzer performers.
  • Bay Area Accordion Club in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • CD Baby will sell your CD or digital track online!
  • Folk Horizons in New Hampshire "is an educational non-profit organization that promotes traditional folk arts through presentation, education, and participation."
  • Fontana Button Accordion Club in Fontana, California specializes in Slovene style (G/C/F/Bb) button boxing.
  • Las Vegas International Accordion Convention
  • Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration
  • Minnesota Accordion Club
  • Rose City Accordion Club in Portland, Oregon
  • Walla Walla Friends of Acoustic Music in Walla Walla, Washington
  • Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.
• International
  • Amsterdamse Accordeon Vereniging
  • Folkwoods Festival in the Netherlands.
  • Le Grand Frisson tenue par Mario Bruneau, c'est la seule ginguette en Amerique du Nord.
  • Harmonica Trefdag Accordion Meet in Zuidlaren, Netherlands
  • Montmagny (Québec) Accordion Festival (Carrefour mondial de l'accordéon)
  • St. John's Folk Arts Council in Newfoundland holds fests.
  • Victoria Accordion Club in Victoria, British Columbia