Tell me some thing blasphemous and/or sacrilegious
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@catsalad
Pirates never played accordions
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🪗 (Because they hadn’t been invented yet)
Accordions were invented during the 1800s Industrial Revolution at the same time as the telegraph, steam engine and the typewriter
100 years after the Golden Age of Piracy 1600s–1700s
So every pirate movie with an accordionist is a science fiction movie with a time-travel sub plot
️@AccordionBruce @catsalad The accordion displaced the bagpipes (in their many variants) across Europe, pushing them to the margins - mountain valleys (Appenines, Pyrenees) on the mainland or islands (Sardinia, Ireland. Scotland).
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@Theosoreass @AccordionBruce @catsalad (black sails theme intensifies)
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@Theosoreass @AccordionBruce @catsalad noone would believe that the hurdy gurdy was a real instrument
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@AccordionBruce @catsalad next thing you know you'll be telling me Nero didn't actually fiddle while Rome burned
@BoredomFestival @AccordionBruce @catsalad Nero might or might not have fiddled, but could have played the pipe organ…
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@AccordionBruce @catsalad
Someone's gotta post a picture of a Somali pirate with an accordion.@leeloo @AccordionBruce @catsalad hegseth or trump with an accordion would work as well, but I have no desire to see their faces other than behind bars
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@davidr @AccordionBruce @catsalad Concertinas are still 1835 ish. Now, I haven't found anything on the variations of the nearly 4,000-year-old Chinese version. https://concertinamusic.com/timeline/
@Jeanniewarner @davidr @AccordionBruce @catsalad
Yes, the concertina was the invention of Sir Charles Wheatstone, patented 1829, public launch 1835, so Tom the cabin boy couldn't have used one to play the Trumpet Hornpipe for Captain Pugwash[1] on The Black Pig. 3:O(> There were lots of competing designs, so as with computers: "Any student of the concertina has to choose between ten incompatible operating systems."[2] 3:O))>
[1] Pugwash is coeval with this moose!
[2] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-concertina-celebrating-sir-charles-wheatstones-invention-at-kings
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@Jeanniewarner @davidr @AccordionBruce @catsalad
Yes, the concertina was the invention of Sir Charles Wheatstone, patented 1829, public launch 1835, so Tom the cabin boy couldn't have used one to play the Trumpet Hornpipe for Captain Pugwash[1] on The Black Pig. 3:O(> There were lots of competing designs, so as with computers: "Any student of the concertina has to choose between ten incompatible operating systems."[2] 3:O))>
[1] Pugwash is coeval with this moose!
[2] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-concertina-celebrating-sir-charles-wheatstones-invention-at-kings
@Cadbury_Moose @davidr @AccordionBruce @catsalad Thought you might enjoy reading about the Chinese one from an earlier millennium.
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Despite your username, I had to look this up and it's true. Absolutely wild.@ProcessParsnip @catsalad
It’s featured near the beginning of my #AccordionRevolution book
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@AccordionBruce @catsalad I've got a theory here: accordions, like opsin genes, were invented at least twice, separately. When the golden age of piracy was gone, the memories of accordions were repressed since strongly associated with socially unaccepted piracy-related aggression and violence. Hence, no trace in later history. However, they re-appear in movies as a great example of an archetype in Jungian shared unconsciousness. Anyone recall other social groups playing accordions? I'd like to develop my theory further.
@adam_wysokinski @catsalad
The Jungian telegraph needs to be included at leastDeveloped by the same guy as the English concertina, Charles Wheatstone
He also measured the speed of light, did that circuit thing, and invented 3-D glasses
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@adam_wysokinski @catsalad
The Jungian telegraph needs to be included at leastDeveloped by the same guy as the English concertina, Charles Wheatstone
He also measured the speed of light, did that circuit thing, and invented 3-D glasses
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@AccordionBruce @catsalad It fucks me up knowing that the bodhrán was invented in the 19th century, cus it feels like something that must have been around forever.
Granted it does depend on who you ask, there are people who insist it's ancient, but I think it's a question of how rigorously you define it. Like frame drums are probably older than dirt, but we're talking about a specific type of frame drum.
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@Theosoreass @AccordionBruce @catsalad noone would believe that the hurdy gurdy was a real instrument
@matthewskelton @Theosoreass @catsalad
They gave Spencer Tracy a Hurdy Gurdy in Captains CourageousWhich is funny, because Kipling features an #accordion in the book, set contemporaneous to its 1897 publication
We can guess the era because the rich kid’s dad is a railway magnate and steams over to pick him up
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@AccordionBruce @catsalad Neal Stephenson made a similar mistake in the Baroque Cycle: a character is killed by being stabbed with the endpin of a cello. Aside from the fact that this wouldn't be very effective structurally (the endpin is not robustly attached), the endpin didn't *exist* before the mid1800s (prior to that, the cello was held tightly between the legs, as the viola da gamba is today). A musician friend of mine wrote to Stephenson about this, (politely) pointing out the error. He told me that he received a reply, which read: "AAAARGH!"
@BoredomFestival @catsalad
There was lively chatter on message boards when the young adult novel series about Mary “Jacky” Faber featured her playing a little AccordionThey start in 1801 which puts them before the 1829 development of the first accordions
It wasn’t featured much after that until the very last book (published 14 years later, two years after the author died) when she played it again, almost as if he was tossing one to all of the people who complained 🪗
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@ProcessParsnip @catsalad
It’s featured near the beginning of my #AccordionRevolution bookthere truly are experts in every single thing on Mastodon (not sarcastic).
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@AccordionBruce @catsalad The accordion displaced the bagpipes (in their many variants) across Europe, pushing them to the margins - mountain valleys (Appenines, Pyrenees) on the mainland or islands (Sardinia, Ireland. Scotland).
@sellathechemist @catsalad
Alan Lomax went to Europe in the 1950s to escape the McCarthy eraAnd he seems to have come back with a deep hatred of the Accordion
He called it a “pestiferous instrument”
And seemed to apply a generic filter based on the fact that it had chased around fiddle and bagpipe traditions in many parts of Europe
Not unearned. But not helpful
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@AccordionBruce @catsalad I thought the things pirates don't play were concertinas.
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@Owlor @catsalad
The origin-stories of traditions are some of my favourite thingsLike ~every~ tradition has to have been started by real live people just sitting around one day
The accordion is particularly interesting because it gained real global popularity after the 1860s or so
And recording started in the 1890s
So we have records of people who might have known the very first players of some “traditional” styles
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@sellathechemist @catsalad
Alan Lomax went to Europe in the 1950s to escape the McCarthy eraAnd he seems to have come back with a deep hatred of the Accordion
He called it a “pestiferous instrument”
And seemed to apply a generic filter based on the fact that it had chased around fiddle and bagpipe traditions in many parts of Europe
Not unearned. But not helpful
@AccordionBruce @sellathechemist @catsalad so that was after he recorded Lead Belly playing it ?
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@Owlor @catsalad
The origin-stories of traditions are some of my favourite thingsLike ~every~ tradition has to have been started by real live people just sitting around one day
The accordion is particularly interesting because it gained real global popularity after the 1860s or so
And recording started in the 1890s
So we have records of people who might have known the very first players of some “traditional” styles
@Owlor @catsalad
Folk glorious of the 1800s and early 1900s hated the squeezeboxesSo they never talked about them or recorded them or interviewed any of the players
So folklorists can’t do something similar to a comparative analysis of today’s research on the impact of the boombox 100 years later
Mostly it makes you conscious of the question of the historical origins of “authenticity” and how it was used as a sales-pitch, or simply nostalgic amnesia
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