Portraits of the American Craftsman by Myers Tadd;

Author:Myers, Tadd;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781493003259
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2013-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

ACADIAN ACCORDIONS

EUNICE, LOUISIANA

As a young Marc Savoy looked at the accordion he had made by hand, he knew he could do better.

He had nursed the idea of building an accordion for years, ever since he was twelve years old, when his father bought him an accordion, a Hohner 114, from a department store. He cherished it, teaching himself to play a song right away. Growing up poor in rural Louisiana, such a thing was a luxury. “To me,” Savoy would later write, “owning an accordion was about as far-fetched as owning the moon.”

It was eight years later now, and he’d made his own accordion. He wanted to show it to Sidney Brown of Lake Charles, whom Savoy had heard made wonderful accordions, but he was too embarrassed. He had few tools and didn’t know much about woodworking. He threw the accordion in his father’s barbecue pit and watched it burn.

He did do better, of course. In 1960 he established the Savoy Music Center in Eunice, where he has spent more than half a century making some of the world’s finest, most authentic Acadian accordions.

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