A 74-year-old Vermont man has found his passion not just in playing the accordion, but in fixing them. Nathan Longo is one of ...

When Sergey Antonovich rediscovered a childhood passion for music, he found an unexpected application for his skills as an embedded systems engineer: building bespoke digital accordions. Antonovich ...

EVERETT — Strap on this 25-pound musical breastplate, give it a squeeze, and you’re guaranteed to be the life of the party. Why sing the blues when you can play the accordion? With undertones of ...

We revisit a conversation we first aired in April 2023 which was the first installment of our series on people’s professions. We’ll learn what it takes to do different kinds of jobs and how these ...

Pigini accordions can have over 12,000 individual pieces, compared to the few hundred in a standard accordion. Each piece is installed by hand, which can take over a year. In that time, craftspeople ...

The hum of an accordion might transport you to the streets of Paris or a drafty Italian restaurant with red and white checkered tablecloths and candles stuck in Chianti bottles. Maybe polka comes to ...

After three or four hours of tuning accordions in his wood shop, Andre Michot says, his back starts to hurt. The work adds another callus to his knees, where he holds the squeezebox and pumps the ...

Rosanne Romagnoli wants you to know that the accordion is alive and well in Oak Lawn. Romagnoli runs the Italo-American Accordion Co. out of a storefront on 95th Street, the third-generation of her ...

When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fetes Krist Novoselic later this year, it'll be well-timed recognition. Not for his band—Nirvana certainly doesn't need the publicity—but for his instrument. He may ...

Gabbanelli Accordions and Imports is an unassuming store located alongside many motorists’ daily commutes. On West Bellfort, between a Kroger grocery and a car wash, it is an inconspicuous red ...