Who is Fred Dömpke and why should deserve more consideration among the bandoneon players? The bandoneon is conquering a significant role in jazz. Many bandoneon players are exploring this genre and are enriching it with interesting sounds and musical feelings, especially from tango. Thanks to an assiduous German reader of this blog, I discovered a […]
The Bandoneon Price depends on the type of Bandoneon you want to buy. The equation is simple: if you want to learn to play the bandoneon, you need to have a bandoneon. But do you know which is a good bandoneon price to pay for? A very common problem is wanting to learn the bandoneon […]
Discussing Bandoneon Making with Baltazar Estol A few years ago I saw a video by M. Rodolfo Daluisio playing a bandoneon built by Baltazar Estol. Until that moment I thought that brand new bandoneons were prerogative of Europe. When I arrived in Buenos Aires I often heard about Baltazar Estol and his prodigious instruments, and […]
August is a special month for tango enthusiasts as we celebrate the birth of Pedro Maffia, a pivotal figure in the history of tango and a great innovator of bandoneon technique. Pedro Maffia: a genius of tango and bandoneon In another post, I discussed Walter Porschmann, a forgotten bandoneon virtuoso. The case of Pedro Maffia […]
An History of Bandoneon from its genesis to its decline in Germany during and after WWII Foreword This article is not an apology for Nazism nor an indictment of Germany’s past.It’s just the history of bandoneon during a specific period of Germany: It is based on historical evidence and public documents, and should be considered as a historical and […]
Anyone familiar with the bandoneon often encounters the magical number: 442. When we say that the bandoneon tuning is 442, this value represents the frequency in Hertz of the central A that serves as a reference point for tuning all the other notes of the bandoneon. If you’ve ever wondered why this precise value instead […]
The German-born bandonionspieler Walter Porschmann was crucial to shaped tango’s sound in Buenos Aires & Europe before WWII. The month of March is associated with the bandoneon because on March 11th, 1921, Astor Piazzolla was born. However, in the same month, on March 16th, 18 years earlier, another bandoneon virtuoso was born in Germany. His […]
