International Accordion Museum

INTERNATIONAL ACCORDION MUSEUM "ALBERTO PICCHIETTI room"

"It may sound a little emphatic, or even paradoxical, to say that the accordion industry was born in Castelfidardo to celebrate the longed-for unification of Italy. It is undeniable, however that these two events are very close in time. In 1860 the Piedmont troops defeated the Pope's army and achieved the unification of Italy; in 1863 Paolo Soprani, a Castelfidardo farmer, founded the "Italian accordion industry". Well then, the Museum...

Photographic Documentary

Story of the Museum

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Sound File: Title "Blue Danube" of the CD "The Fathers of the Accordion" dedicated to
Pietro Deiro