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HISTORY
OF THE ACCORDION IN INDIA
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India
conjures up images of sitars, tablas and tambourines, and
traditional music has not integrated the accordion. Religious
music, which does not use the accordion, uses an instrument
with free reeds with bellows worked with the left hand, somewhat
like a harmonium. The accordion is played in films, as the
accompaniment in many songs. It is also often present in stage
shows and pop music. The piano accordion is the most popular
type of accordion in India.
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| HISTORY
OF THE ACCORDION IN THAILAND
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The Cheng
is very popular in Thailand, where it is called the kaen. The
instruments sound (somewhere between that of an organ and an
accordion) is popular today for playing a universal style of
music similar to their blues. There are some accordionists,
such as Saman Karnchanoplin, who is a composer of popular Thai
music. He also plays international variety and traditional music,
accompanied by the piano.
Damrong
Chatalada, known as an accordion review writer all over the
world, is also a very good classical accordionist who began
teaching himself in 1954. He has performed numerous concerts
in countries such as Austria, Switzerland and Singapore.
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| HISTORY
OF THE ACCORDION IN VIETNAM
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At the
beginning of the 1930s, the chromatic accordion was very popular.
It was brought to Vietnam by the French colonists (who came
from Japan). Bach-Sac was born in 1910 and was the first known
Vietnamese to play the piano accordion in 1933. By 1949 he
was skilled on both this and the chromatic accordion. He was
drawn towards the musette accordion, and brought it back to
Vietnam from where he studied in France. During his military
service, he played for many army festivities. He temporarily
gave up the accordion in 1941, but began playing again in
1946 when he began playing at dances.
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