Alfred Publishing Co
15335 Morrison St.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
They still publish accordion music, plus many other types.
They still have the Palmer-Hughes Accordion Methods and
the Palmer Piano Methods.
Bayerischer Landesverein fur Heimatpflege e.V.
Ludwigstrasse 23 Ruckgeb
8000 Munchen 22.
A source of zwiefacher which includes accordion parts along with
the wind instrument parts for a traditional twelve-piece
Bavarian brass band.
In case you are wondering, a zwiefacher is a traditonal type of
folk song which has an even meter.
They are kind of fun to dance to.
Browns Music
2208 So. Broadway
New Ulm, MN 56073
(507) 354-3615
Browns sells accordions and sheet music.
Browns has a large quantity of polka music, and also sells the
bensheimer series of French mussette pieces.
Brown's also is the current publisher of the old Vitak-Elsnic
series of polka music for accordions as well as many books of
full band arrangements of Czech and Polish polka music.
Gary Dahl - accordion arrangements
509 Valley Ave. NE #5
Puyallup, WA 98372
phone & fax: (206) 770-9492
- Gary Dahl is a contracted staff arranger/recording artist for Mel Bay
Publishing.
- Mr. Dahl's accordion arrangements are marketed in the USA, Canada and
internationally.
- Gary's arrangements are at various levels of difficulty with the
following goals:
. Creativity, good taste, harmonically/melodically correct;
. Written for the accordion... not the piano;
. Guaranteed audience appeal and playing enjoyment;
. Utilizing the orchestral capabilities of the accordion.
- see "Gary Dahl Accordion School" (under "ACCORDION SCHOOLS AND
TEACHERS") for more information.
Ernest Deffner, Inc.
230 Hericks Rd.
PO Box 608
Mineola, NY 11501
(516) 746-3100
Owner of Titano & Pancordion.
Huge selection of accordion sheet music, recordings and parts.
The company is now owned by Faithe Deffner.
e-mail: FDeffner@aol.com
Floyd's Record Shop
434 East Main
Ville Platte, LA 70586
Telephone numbers: (318) 363-2138 No answer, dial 363-2185
Mail order telephone number: (318) 363-2185
*****The major source of information and supply for any music and
tapes, CD, whatever on Cajun and Zydeco music.
***Dealers can also call the following telephone No. (318) 363-2184
Folk Music Center
220 N. Yale
Claremont CA (zip?)
(909) 624-2928
JaMar Music - accordion music publishing company
Jim Wadowick
215 Glenwood Ave.
Troy, AL 36081
Associate Professor of Music
Troy State University
Troy, AL 36082
334-566-1664 (home)
334-670-3323 (office)
wadowick@p-c-net.net
Jim currently has over 30 compositions and arrangements available.
Most of them are of rather high technical level, but many players
of good technical ability could work on them. Several are very nice
French musette type music. Jim has performed all these arrangements
at the American Accordion Musicological Society's 8th and 9th annual
symposia in Pennsylvania (Stanley Darrow's shindig).
Also have performed twice at the Texas Accordion Convention in Dallas.
Jim does custom arrangements for individuals around the country.
McCabe's Guitar Shop
3101 Pico Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA
(310) 828-4497
NuArts Press - Music Publications
322 Haddon Avenue
Westmont, NJ 08108
(609) 854-6628
They sell:
- Accordion music and books, accordion cassette tapes, videos
from France, Italy, Germany, Norway and Russia.
- Videos on "How To Play Accordion", "Tex-Mex Ideas" and
"How To Improvise on Accordion".
- Cassette of Father Stan K. Playing Glenn Miller style swing.
Also on this tape, performing are Joanne Arnold and Stanley Darrow.
For more info, phone: (609) 854-6628.
Pedrini's Music
(818) 241-7630
(213) 245-3303
210 N Brand Blvd
Glendale CA 91203
Pedrini's also has a couple of accordions in their store and carries
straps plus a great variety of books of accordion music.
Haug Forretning
2428 Northwest 56th,
Ballard, Washington 98107
(206) 789-3620
Scandinavian Music books, Tapes and CD's
Request one of those catalogs -- good music selection of
Scandinavian music. About 1/4th of the bands he carries have
free reed instruments in them.
Stan Snapp
2620 Shepardson
Bellingham, WA 98226-9413
email: snapps@cs.wwu.edu
Stan sells two music books, vol1 and 2 of the Vancouver Island
Folk Dance books.
These two books contain a lot of accordion repertoire from southern
and eastern Europe, with melody lines, some harmony, chords, and
words.
Village and Early Music Society,
Richard Geisler
15181 Ballantree Lane
Grass Valley, California, 95949
Several collections of music, including books of transcibed
Bulgarian, former Yugoslavian, and eastern European folk music.
Catalog available.
The emphasis in his collection is on music to be played for
international folk dancing.
Disclaimer: I make no guarantees regarding the accuracy of any information included here. If you know of any corrections, please let me know via one of the addresses above.