Paige from the original 1829 Accordion patent. Shows archaic German text written over an illustration of a five key billows instrument. Including in the text is the word “Accordion“. It is actually written after another word that was scribbled out. I don’t know what that other word is or if the instrument could’ve been called something else.

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   AccordionBruce (accordionbruce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 02:08:34 JST AccordionBruce

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   @AqiDrago
   There’s #accordion history theories I’d like to research further

   East Asian free reeds were brought to Europe in the 16-1700s. They’d been evolving (still are) in Asia for thousands of years

   Europeans made reed organs in the 1700s and an explosion of harmonicas, and accordion/concertina relations in the 1820s or so

   Maybe there were precedents in Russia? There’s other innovations

   But Cyril Demian patented the first instrument Called an #accordion in Vienna in 1829
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