aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] from The Economist's Buenos Aires calendar

["Max Pyziur" <pyz@brama.com>]

from The Economist's Buenos Aires calendar
http://www.economist.com/cities/briefing.cfm?calendar=1&city_id=BEA&fsrc=nwl

Next time you're in BA check out the accordions which Chango Spasiuk playz
....

fyi,

MP
pyz@brama.com
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Anconetani Accordion Museum

Ongoing

A new museum dedicated to accordions opened in Chacarita, a district of
Buenos Aires, in November. It is based on the extensive collection of
accordions, photos and documents belonging to the Anconetani family, who
have been selling the instruments for over a century. They arrived in
Buenos Aires in 1909, representing a manufacturer from their native Italy.
But as imports dried up due to the second world war, the family began to
make the accordions themselves and became the foremost local manufacturer.

Several leading folk musicians, including Chango Spasiuk—a rising star on
the world music circuit—use the family's instruments. But the Anconetani
have resisted making bandoneons, a close relative of the accordion that is
used frequently in Argentine tango music. Bandoneon players fail to
appreciate new innovations, insists the family patriarch, 84-year-old
Nazareno Anconetani. “The accordion developed,” he says, “but bandoneons
stood still.”

Guevara 492, Chacarita. Tel: +54 (0)11 4553-9440. Open: Mon-Fri, 3pm-7pm.
Call before visiting.