Organetto in Abruzzo: a regional listening key
A small diatonic button instrument can carry a large regional vocabulary. Abruzzo is one useful place to begin listening.
Music & Culture
Music & Culture
Follow the instrument through regional traditions, repertoire, listening and the places that give its sound meaning.
Pizzica and organetto without flattening context
Pizzica belongs to a wider conversation about southern Italian dance, memory and contemporary presentation. The organetto is one thread in that conversation.
What to hear in Emilian liscio
Liscio is a useful case study in how dance function, ensemble expectation and accordion technique shape one another.
Tarantella as a repertoire family
Tarantella is a useful search word and a dangerous shortcut. Let rhythm, region and occasion stay visible.
Accordion and Homebrewing: Shared Craft Skills
Italian accordion making and English homebrewing share workshop discipline, patience and sensory judgement. A practical comparison for hobbyists.
Personal poetry projects: a Civil War haiku collection
How a personal haiku collection on the American Civil War is organised: battlefields, camp life, mourning, counting, season words and classroom use.
Hunting Horns and Forest Tradition in Germany
A look at German hunting horn culture, the Hubertusbläser blog, and what accordion readers can learn from another bellows-free wind tradition.