Damián Guttlein is the only person in the world who can tune by ear the bandoneon, a unique instrument that powers the perfectly imperfect sound of tango music. A bandoneon, a type of concertina, is ...

Musician and Day to Day contributing writer David Was offers an appreciation of the instrument that drives the sultry sound of the tango. It's called a bandoneon, and Was cautions that it should never ...

Call it a tango crisis averted. That accordion-like sound in all Argentinian tangos - we can all hear it in our heads - is from the bandoneon, a German-made instrument brought to the South American ...

So jokes Dr. Bertram Levy, the Port Townsend surgeon who in 1990 was introduced to the bandoneon, instrument of tango. He’s been studying and playing ever since, in the United States and in Buenos ...

The accordion-like instrument called the Bandoneon is the traditional instrument of the Argentine tango. But composer Astor Piazzolla changed the way the world viewed the tango and the bandoneon. In ...

The bandoneon, a type of concertina and symbol of tango's nostalgic soul, is vanishing from Argentina, as foreign tourists with bulging wallets buy up the instruments as coveted collectibles. "In a ...

Hector del Curto grew up listening to tango music. He says he heard it from the womb. So it was no surprise when, at 11 years old, he took up the Argentine accordion, the bandoneon. The bandoneon ...

The first ever bandoneon made in Argentina has been produced by a university in Buenos Aires Argentina may be the nation that gave tango to the world but the dance has been at risk of a quiet future ...

The bandoneon, known as the tango accordion, is quite a loud instrument to practice within the confines of an apartment, and could possibly lead to some neighborly disputes. [HLB] enjoyed playing his ...

Argentina may be the nation that gave tango to the world but the dance has been at risk of a quiet future in its homeland. The threat has come not due to any decline in interest among Argentines, ...