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Show Saxophone Second to , , '" ' Accordion in Franco Tlila year, JQ29, marks the anniversary anniver-sary of the accordion. It la doubtful If even lu Its native Vienna, where the humble accordion first was devised by an Instrument muker nnmed Damaln In 1820, the anniversary will attract as much attention as has been given to It In Trance. Never In all Us 100 years has the accordion enjoyed sucb prestige with the "elite," the sophisticated, sophis-ticated, the wealthy, as It does today. Jaxs music Is responsible. The saxa-phonerwas saxa-phonerwas tot melancholy enough. The accordion was substituted. It Is the Instrument of the street, of the soloist, of the wall res that are scorned as the ashes of the past on Mont-martre, Mont-martre, but still are flushed and gay with the breath of life In the corner bistro whero neighbors gather after nightfall; of the villages of the provinces, pro-vinces, and of the seaports where "at twilight the nostalgic spirits of sudors beneuth foreign skies become drunk with Its cajoling music and the simple sim-ple music which brings back to them their faraway native land." |