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分享11-May-2018
by Rob Howard
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 The annual Shand Morino Gathering takes place on Sunday May 13th, 1pm to 5pm, at The Windygates Institute, Milton Road, Windygates, Leven, Fife KY8 5DG. The event is organised by the Windygates Button-key Accordion and Fiddle Club to pay tribute to Sir Jimmy Shand (1908-2000), perhaps the world’s most famous exponent of Scottish country dance music. Shand Morino owners are invited to play at this afternoon concert.The Shand Morino is one of the most iconic of all accordions, and in the late 1930s was part designed by Jimmy Shand in collaboration with Venanzio Morino, chief designer at Hohner at the time. Jimmy Shand had an idea for improving the response of the three row diatonic accordion and together with the accordion retailer Charles Forbes (his employer at the time) and Morino they designed and built the Hohner Special in 1939. After World War Two, a design based on this instrument was mass produced by Hohner under the name ‘Shand Morino’. The Shand Morino is a British Chromatic accordion – a hybrid instrument combining a diatonic treble keyboard with a stradella bass, and is the most celebrated type of this kind of accordion. |