Musician and accordion designer Gilberto Reyes met us at the door of Hohner’s national headquarters then located in historic Glen Allen, Virginia. He and I had many mutual friends but had never met in ...

This week, we're sharing a "pandemic project" that takes on the appearance of a book, but is actually a long accordion fold with a closed gate jacket wrapped around it. This exciting design by Reeny ...

There’s a photograph of John Castiglione, age 3, sitting on the stoop of his father’s Detroit store at Gratiot and Harper. The Castigliones started selling accordions there in 1935. The original store ...

Monday marked World Accordion Day and there’s no better place to celebrate in the Northland than at A World of Accordions Museum in Superior. The museum’s curator Dr. Helmi Harrington collected nearly ...

The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...