On Jan 18, 2009, at 11:59 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Everyone hates the accordion. ;)
(actually, I *love* the accordion)
I understand, and do not judge, but simply cite this, found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordion (click on 4. Accordion jokes)
The 1954 Edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
describes the accordion as producing "quite the most unpleasant
musical sound ever devised by the inventor's and the instrument
maker's ingenuity". The instrument has been the butt of jokes at
least since 1866, when the French painter and cartoonist, Honoré
Daumier (1808-1879), created by zincography a picture published in Le
Journal Amusant of an accordionist and a man playing snooker who
stated in the caption: "One does not yet have the right to kill the
people who play this instrument, but there is hope that we will soon
get it."
Since my instrument has also been the butt of jokes (Ambrose Bierce
defines a "gentleman" as "one who knows how to play the trombone, and
doesn't") I will refrain from any more disparaging commentary. 8-)
Christopher
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