Where does the accordion come from?

The accordion, as one of the keyboard instruments, is produced in Europe, but its production principle is derived from the bamboo reed sounding principle of the traditional Chinese musical instrument, the "shi" ( 笙). According to historical records, in 1777, a Chinese missionary, Father Amoy, brought the Chinese "shoji" to Europe, which inspired the Europeans to apply the principle of the bamboo reed to the organ, and produced a variety of reed instruments with different stylistic features, but with basically the same principle. These instruments are very simple, which some people made a mouth-blown "Ola piano", and later on the basis of the increase in the left hand can be pulled by the bellows and keys, these instruments have a *** with the same weakness, is the lack of full expression of the characteristics of the music. With the progress of industrial civilization in Europe, until 1829, by an Austrian craftsman called West Damian produced a musical instrument. Damien craftsman in Austria produced a left-handed part of the addition can be used as an accompaniment to the use of chord keys, to this point, this kind of hand-pulled bellows to control the sound of the musical instrument is officially known as the accordion. Early accordions existed only as a folk instrument in Western countries. Over the past one hundred years, the structure and performance of the accordion have been improved, thus greatly increasing the musical expression of the accordion. Later, many professional composers were attracted to compose music for it, which in turn greatly expanded the accordion's artistic expression. Particularly worth mentioning is that on April 18, 1939, the United States accordion master Magnante's accordion recital in the United States held in the famous Carnegie Hall, which set off an important page in the history of music, which marks the accordion music has become a kind of scientific, world music into the art of the hall.

According to the current information shows that (1) the accordion by the first French consul in Yunnan, China, Fang Sua (Chinese name) brought to Kunming in 1899, but it was only as a colonial self-indulgence of a "gadget" in the barbaric backwardness of the Red Earth Plateau, will not cause the group of numbness almost hateful "original people" interest. The "original people" would not be interested. The real impact on our country, that has been the 20th century after the 20's, a large number of foreigners came to Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao and other places of the Concession, and the Russian October Revolution, a large number of "White Russians" for the livelihood of successive entry into the coastal areas of our country, which only for the spread of accordion in our country to play a role in promoting.

In 1952, the first accordion in China was built in the instrument repair factory of the Southwest Military Region, with only 18 basses, but it was the beginning of our own production. Today, more than 40 years later, our country has a variety of brands, can produce a variety of specifications of the accordion, our products are also exported to Europe and the United States and the world. It is precisely because of the prosperity and progress of our accordion manufacturing industry, for the accordion in our country's great popularity, great improvement to provide good conditions.

From this we can find an interesting cultural phenomenon: as China's traditional musical instruments sheng passed to the West, and then after more than a hundred years of derivation and as a symbol of Western culture back to China, and popularization and prosperity on the ground in China, this is the East and West to complement each other's cultural strengths and weaknesses, *** with the results of the development of the East and West, it is the East and West of the same national *** with the pursuit of aesthetics, so that the various types of Western musical instruments, including accordions It is also the aesthetic pursuit of the peoples of the East and the West **** the same, so that, including the accordion, the various categories of Western musical instruments in China, blossomed, for the Chinese people to use, and create a large number of instrumental music both adapted to the performance of these instruments, but also with Chinese characteristics.