In Europe the harmonica is widely accepted as the prominent instrument for folk music and since everyone is posting harmonica videos here's one of the most famous song (very difficult to play)
Too late for you to edit, but "harmonica" is a false friend; that word refers to a very different instrument in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonica
Button accordions come in two kinds: classic piano full scale, and melodian, which is a harmonica attached to bellows and buttons. It's the same "what you get push and pull can differ" model, which real accordians don't do: same note push and pull.
I am unsure what a Bandonion does. Wheatstone concertina (yes, the guy who made the wheatstone bridge I believe) are also same note push-pull. More buttons. more. Wheatstone concertina sell for $10,000 or more. Melodions sell for $100
Zydeco typically uses the harmonica-aligned melodion. Bandonion music is what Astor Piazzola plays.
(can play a melodion. cannot play piano accordion or concertina)
sbierwagen|4 years ago
ggm|4 years ago
I am unsure what a Bandonion does. Wheatstone concertina (yes, the guy who made the wheatstone bridge I believe) are also same note push-pull. More buttons. more. Wheatstone concertina sell for $10,000 or more. Melodions sell for $100
Zydeco typically uses the harmonica-aligned melodion. Bandonion music is what Astor Piazzola plays.
(can play a melodion. cannot play piano accordion or concertina)
Jimmy Shand is god. Just saying.
dtgriscom|4 years ago