Re: Oktoberfest/Bavarian folk music
Thanks for bringing this up...I was about to ask about it. I believe it was German Jewish immigrants who came to South Louisiana in the mid 1800s and brought along these accordions and sold them there. The accordions were preffered by some to the fiddle due to their ruggedness and the volume they could attain especially in loud crowded dancehalls. I have always wondered if this instrument had musch use from its native land. The Cajuns slightly altered the tuning of the reeds to make them "dry" meaning the middle two sets of reed were tuned close to exact pitch. The diatonic button accordion is occasionally seen with Traditional Irish Music, but there the pitches are "wet"- tuned a few cent off of each other to give a supposed fuller sound.
Jeremy
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