The accordion is a popular instrument...
We have to keep this in mind.
It's a simple instrument,
you don't have to tune it, you can carry it everywhere,
you just pick it up and play.
I come from a small village above Formia called Maranola,
where there were many musicians,
bagpipe players, accordion players, singers.
I took this accordion I did not know a thing about,
but from the beginning I started to do this thing.
As soon as I did it, everyone around me danced
and I obviously had a blast,
but not just me but everyone around,
because I sincerely didn't do anything
that sound had been recognized by the people of the town
and they, on that tune, started to dance,
setting up immediately a party situation.
It instantly created synthesis,
communion, possibilities of confrontation.
It was born and still is an instrument of the simple folk
and this is its strength.
Today, more than ever and unlike the past,
there is lack of the ability to unite people,
and why this music is more important today than 40 years ago the time when we began?
It is in popular music that the country holds it together,
it is the idea of communion, the idea of community that holds it.
The accordion can really be an alternative sign.
An instrument that is so accessible
and has a sound that strikes directly at the heart.
These are beautiful instruments first of all, really beautiful. <i><b><u><font color=#00000000></font></u></b></i>
Because they are instruments born from a rooted family dimension,
it's a family within a country, as if the whole country was playing
and to play all over the places they needed to build also.
And I have the feeling that when I play the accordion,
I have a bit of all the Castagnari playing with me,
that I'm not playing alone.
One is part of a community
he doesn't play alone, he doesn't sing alone,
he doesn't live alone!
If we find this spirit,
music will never stop!
English version: Albert Sardei
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