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 ...

SUNDERLAND—The concertinas on the shelves in the show room at The Button Box in Sunderland are more than musical instruments, they are works of art. Though they can be made in a variety of ...

Born into a family of conjunto pioneers, Flaco Jimenez took his Hohner three-row button accordion from San Antonio to the stages of the world, becoming the music’s greatest ambassador. Jimenez died ...

After nearly a century of selling like hot cakes in Newfoundland and Labrador, the Hohner 4-stop accordion has been squeezed out of production. O'Brien's Music Inc., the longtime music shop in ...

To understand the heart and soul of the rich musical tradition of Newfoundland and Labrador, it’s always going to be a bit of a squeeze. The button accordion, with its either one row of buttons or two ...

Myron Floren was 4 years old when he discovered the accordion in 1923. Floren — born on Nov. 5, 1919 — was living with his family on a small farm in Roslyn, South Dakota, at the time. A nearby farmer ...