Toni Jarvis will spend today doing what she has done the last Saturday of every summer month for 70 years: playing the accordion for the fun-loving crowd at the German Park picnics. "It's not a ...

READING, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Kermit Ohlinger could be considered a one-man band with his accordion. He plays a midi accordion that has electronic sensors in it, enabling him to play over 300 sounds ...

“I was 7 years old when I started playing a little German accordion,” Colligan said. “Mommy and daddy put me aside more than one time because I was making a lot of noise with it.” As he grew up, ...

The accordion has 233 buttons, 41 keys and 8,888 chords. George Rozwick won't claim he knows all the chords off the top of his head. Pretty much everything else, though? He's got it. Of course, he's ...

Humorist Brian Unger visits the studio of a Los Angeles accordion teacher, and learns that this oft-maligned instrument has been the key to some surprising romantic success for the few who master it.

As a young man, Erich Albus was a reluctant soldier in World War II, drafted into the German army when he was 18. “When my father went to the train with me,” Albus recalled of the day he reported for ...