For forty-five years, Alex Carozza has run a small accordion shop near Times Square. It’s one of the last fixtures of the old Music Row, and Carozza, after a lifetime spent repairing musical ...

[Lee] wanted an electric Melodeon to use with his band. A Melodeon is a chromatic accordion and there are people who already make electric versions but they are a little too expensive for him. Instead ...

Bob Patocka’s accordion collection seems endless as he trucks down box after box from the upstairs closet of his Yorba Linda home. In total, he has 28 accordions; each is worth about $6,000. Patocka’s ...

There’s a photograph of John Castiglione, age 3, sitting on the stoop of his father’s Detroit store at Gratiot and Harper. The Castigliones started selling accordions there in 1935. The original store ...