Wolf Molkentin Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Here's just another concertina sighting (currently tagged with "Ziehharmonika" on eBay): It's a screenshot/postcard from the German "Sandman" serial (originated in the former GDR "Fernsehfunk" but kept up after "Wende" and reunification for at least several years). (O.k., it might rather be a German 20 button "Scholer") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Łukasz Martynowicz Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 I miss the times, when "real 3D" stop-motion animation was so popular... I can't recall any names now, but I remember, that concertina showed up on at least a couple of other children tv shows and animations in '80 and '90 - probably because of it's size that fits characters better than an accordion. Intrestingly, they were almost exclusively western (US or UK) productions or... Russian. This makes me wonder about historical concertina popularity in Europe: it was known in UK and Ireland, in Germany and in Russia, but completely unknown in central europe - Poland, Ukraine and Baltic coutries all have rich accordion tradition, Czech and Slovakia have both accordion and chemnitzer tradition, in southern countries like greece, italy or spain they play mostly accordions (in at least one of these countries word "concertina" is used to describe a diatonic accordion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malcolm clapp Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 ....in southern countries like greece, italy or spain they play mostly accordions (in at least one of these countries word "concertina" is used to describe a diatonic accordion). I think that's Portugal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Molkentin Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 I miss the times, when "real 3D" stop-motion animation was so popular... Fortunately there's Shaun (and his Anglo-playing mate) still left... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Łukasz Martynowicz Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Oh yes there is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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