[Lee] wanted an electric Melodeon to use with his band. A Melodeon is a chromatic accordion and there are people who already make electric versions but they are a little too expensive for him. Instead ...

Bob Patocka’s accordion collection seems endless as he trucks down box after box from the upstairs closet of his Yorba Linda home. In total, he has 28 accordions; each is worth about $6,000. Patocka’s ...

Local accordion repair expert and seller prides himself on keeping the ‘arcane instruments’ out of the landfill.

Tex-Mex performer Joel Guzman confesses an odd musical secret in the opening minutes of “Accordion Dreams,” a new documentary about the instrument he’s played all his life. “Before, [people would] say ...

Fintan Stanley is well known to fans of Irish music thanks to his 30 or so years performing at the Cape Cod Irish Village in South Yarmouth. But Stanley, an accordion virtuoso proficient in numerous ...