Guido Deiro World's Foremost Piano-Accordionist - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- #1 The Overture from I Capuleti e I Montecchi.(Bellini) Performed by: Count Guido Deiro (1886 - 1950) Italian born composer and Vaudeville headliner who introduced (1910), named and popularized the piano-accordion in America. The first to play the instrument onstage, on the radio, in film (Vitaphone) and sound recordings (Edison). Known as the virtuoso of the accordion he was the first accordionist to play the "Palace" and composed the theme music for the Broadway hit "Kismet". Deiro discovered, professionally developed and married the teenaged Mae West. They performed on the same bill for nearly four years.(1913-1916). This 1929 Vitaphone is the first sound on film of the piano-accordion and is Part 1 of two selections. See www.guidodeiro.org for illustrated pages on the making of this Vitaphone.
Guido was definitely one of the greats of the accordion. We all owe him a debt of gratitude for his many advancements with the instrument and how it's played. Bravissimo!
Just a couple more observations:
1. It's remarcable how good the sound quality is in this recording, truly a masterpiece considering the date of recording.
2. Notice the absolutely satisfied and "you're welcome" -like grin on Diero's face after the final accolade ending of the piece :) It's just priceless...
This is quite possibly one of the most MUSICAL, and musically satisfying accordion performances I have ever heard! Listen to the expression, and all of the emotion in the music! Beautiful!
You nailed it. This is a splendid nearly century old gem.
The accordion he's playing is modified for more range. One. He has extended the keyboard. (wrongly attributed to Art Van Dam) Two. He has added the diminished fifth row to the bass. Three. He has installed a full length air bar on the bass so that he can position the bellows quickly in preparation for a passage, Four. He had the angle of the keyboard to the reed box increased to give leverage on the bellows. Only wood, glue, leather, ivory and celluoid... and no amplification.
Siempre lo escuche este Señor musico!!! Lo sabia escuchar por radio.yo tenia 12 anos.despues cuando yo tenia 20 años un amigo mio que era muy amigo de el me invito a verlo tocar.vino a Tucuman a Tafi Viejo. Que gran musico!!!!Bertolin!!!
Потрясающая игра, современных мастеров такого уровня не слышал..
Mr. Roberto, my grand father Pio Giuseppe Pellissier was a friend of both Deiro brothers and they accompanied him, grand mother and my father, to the ship in New York when they were leaving for Italy.
My father told me they were frequently visiting my grands at their restaurant in NY and often enjoyed playing there for him and friend from Piedmont and Aosta Velly
I feel good when i listen to this instrument. It's like watching a set of lungs giving music to life. Anyone who can do this must have a great mind. This guy was one of the greats xx
The best thing anyone has ever said about the accordion. Gorgeous.
Hi Mia, You should be proud of your great grandfather. His contributions to music are still popular nearly a hundred years after he started his career in this country. That lovely singing voice and your instrumental talent just might have been inherited from him. Love from Granpa Guido.(airmuseum)
Thank you for posting this. I have been playing accordion for many years and have known of Guido and Pietro Diero only by their recordings, so it's wonderful to see him play.
This is priceless! Every accordionist must see these clips. Bellows control like this went out the window with the newer, heavier, tone chambered accordions.
My late father played the piano accordion, and frequently mentioned your father, and how his instructor loved your fathers technique.
WOW! What a gorgeous instrument... and a GREAT player. Love it. The Liberace of Accordion!
I was fortunate to attend ENMS Military Academy in California with Bela Lugosi's son in 1947. The young man became the Attorney General of Los Angeles County in the USA.
Guido Jr.
So very talented !!!!!!! You are telling a beautiful story that didn't have to go that way. Wow!!! There is another person who talks about the famous banjo players of the time named Eddie Peabody. Players like Eddie and Guido get to be heard to this day thanks to RUclips. However, if people don't tell their personal stories about them, how will we know? There is opportunity here... and I don't mean money, I mean exposure.
How old are you?
Fantastic music on accordion
I listened with pleasur the legendary accordionist Guido Deiro
*****
That's what I call a real accordion beautiful sound it's absolutely beautiful
Pietro Frosini was the first future accordion celebrity to arrive in the U.S. , arriving ca. 1905. I know this as he published two extremely rare compositions in San Francisco, soon after arriving [the front covers show Frosini as a 17 year-old playing a chromatic accordion]. Frosini seems to have made his first recording - a 4-minute wax Amberol - in 1908. At approximately that same date [perhaps 1907?], Guido Deiro (1886-1950) first performed publicly in the U.S. - with a piano accordion - apparently made by Guerrini, of San Francisco. Guido continued to perform using Guerrini instruments - at least into the early 1930s. Guido's younger brother - Pietro Deiro (1888-1954) began to perform [also using a piano accordion] in San Francisco, circa 1909. Both brothers briefly recorded duets for Columbia before beginning separate careers. Pietro recorded exclusively for Victor while Guido chose to record for Columbia after briefly recording for Edison 4-minute Blue Amberols. I agree - Guido had the superior technique while Pietro proved to be much better at developing a second career with accordion studios and a publishing firm. While Guido had apparently remained loyal to Guerrini as his preferred instrument, Pietro seems to have played/sponsored several instruments with Italo American being is preferred instrument (1924), Excelsior (1927-1950s) where he made several suggestions for design improvements such as the treble shift activated by the bottom of the right palm, etc. [my three LMMM Excelsiors made between 1928-1935 - all have treble palm-activated shifts actually labelled "Pietro" on the edges]. In the early 1940s Pietro - for a brief period - favored the Acme accordion before returning to Excelsior during his last years. In the 1930s a great debate began as to which brother had been the first to play a piano accordion - in the United States - or for that matter, anywhere. The issue seems to have perm. resolved when an early photo was produced showing an entire accordion band - made up of piano accordionists - from before the Deiros had even arrived in the U.S. Regarding the actual issue of who was the first brother to play a piano accordion publicly in the U.S. - I believe that Guido won the decision. Of course, Pietro's publishing firm always continued to insist that he was first - inplying such by his nick-name "The Daddy of the accordion" - a title he encouraged. Last issue - also debated for decades: Mae West actually was married to her vaudeville partner - Guido Deiro - briefly (the marriage certificate finally turned up revealing the marriage - in 1920. Mae West didn't exactly help as she never publicly admitted to have been married to Guido - in her autobiography or anywhere else. It's a shame Guido Deiro didn't make several Vitaphone shorts as the one that survives reveals a great technique - and a unique use of bellows enhanced by a unique? air button design created for him by Guerrini. His instrument has a "state-of-the-art treble keyboard action for a instrument made circa 1929. He had a great instrument - handmade reeds tuned LMMM with the extended treble range to high B, augmented by an extra bass row - I believe it was an 140 bass instrument.
Thank you so much for buying a CD. I'm very happy to hear you enjoy his talent. I'm being honest when I tell you that all the income from your purchase goes to continuing the publishing of his music. We are working on a second CD of later performances with Archeophone Records.
He was so talented, I'm amazed every time I hear it. I'm not so good on my mini-acordion that grandpa guido gave me when I was 12...but I try ;)
In the Vitaphone videos. There are two posted. The accordion is a Guerinni. Also Huerinni was the accordion he used most of his career. He also occasionally used an Italo-American. His last accordion in 1950 when he gied was an Acme. All were heavily modified by him. Extended jeyboard, Changed the angle of the keyboard. Added diminished fifth bass and different shift positions and full length air bar on the bass. He always played with accordion keyboard locked under his chin and inside of knee.
Great historical posting. Thanks so much. Great to see the instruments in use at that time, and great to actually see Guido playing.
Vielen Dank für dieses Erinnerungsvideo an einen großartigen Akkordeonisten
Grazie a uno dei padri fondatori, la fisarmonica ha fatto passi da gigante. Non dimentichiamo il passato e pensiamo sempre alla crescita culturale del nostro meraviglioso strumento portatile. R. B. 25/09/2013.
Bravo, bravo. My word, that tune is splendid.
Great player. I didn't realize he used an air bar, you find those on some old diatonic button accordions, where you are constantly pushing on the air bar or button. Very handy, shame they didn't become universal really. Also - the little piano keyboard on Pietro Frosini's chromatic button accordion actually worked, watch some videos of his disciple Alf Hågedal playing a Frosini model accordion. The piano keys fulfill the same role as the duplicate rows on 5 row button boxes, an interesting invention. They called them "finto-pianos."
You're Guido's son?? That's pretty incredible that you're here on RUclips.
I've listened to Guido's recordings a lot, and he is amazingly good at this instrument... I play accordion myself, so know how hard it is to sound that good! Sometimes I listen to Guido and it's hard to believe that it's just one guy playing!! Pietro is quite good as well.
And I agree, fire Obama.
What's especially interesting is that, when this was made, accordionists couldn't vary the number of reed sets they used in either hand. You had to play all of them, all the time. Any variation in sound came purely from dynamics. When treble and bass register switches were introduced, they added a whole dimension of versatility to accordion (and accordionists must've been ecstatic). Mr. Deiro managed to be so musical here anyway. Imagine what he could do with a modern instrument.
But you can see him change register switch at 0:35. Quick hands.
Hello Airmuseum...I am a friend of your cousin Tom Diero of Yakima....He brings our good friend Dick Contino up every year for his wife wedding aniversary... I have never seen or heard any of Guido's music, sounded great. Thank you for posting it!!! David
This footage is almost 90 years old!
Thank you very much for sharing :D
What a wonderful performer he was ... and still is to this day.
Caro Luca,You prove my point. They are very different in constructiuon and method of operation except for they are both free reed instruments. Ciao Guido
amazing. thankyou for sharing this video :)
I'm happy to see people appreciate his contributions ;) Makes me proud!
Thank you for sharing this
Mae married Count Guido Deiro, a Vaudeville headliner, after meeting him during a performance at Detroit's National Theater in 1913. They divorced in 1920. The story of their torrid romance, marriage and intertwined personal and professional careers can be read in the illustrated bio-novel "Mae West and the Count - Love and Loss on the Vaudeville Stage."
This is my cousin, so I guess that makes us cousins. My moms dad is named John Deiro.
Fantastic!
Just think what he would sound like on a modern stereo recording.
Excellent! I wonder what he would have thought of the Roland 8X?
Fantastic musician and composer!
*****
Lillo
@airmuseum That's interesting about your comment #3. I perceived he had some air relief on the bass side (usually operated by the thumb on a concertina) but I could not see him touch anything, even though the bellows could be moved quickly without sounding any note(s). Thank you for posting these videos and offering the "real story" about your father!
Wow, thanks for posting
Fantastic
tante grazie
Todellinen taituri ja erittäin kaunis harmonikka.
Kiitoksia tästä !!
beautiful accordion
Amazing!
Luv this man
Bela Lugosi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 - 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor
son of Paula de Vojnich and István Blaskó, a banker
I work in the accordion museum in Castelfidardo (the city where the accordion born) and we have an CD of his music but is ruined. I wonder where I can find a song of him named “prospero”. Even if the disc is damaged the song seems really good and this video and others confirm that
Prospero Is wrote by Pasquale Taraffo a Genoa's guitarist but Guido played this in 1920/1930
Or duo with Taraffo
Superb Performance! Grandfather of the accordion to us all! I Love this video so much Thank You for posting! I watch it every time I go to the computer:) Tell me is there sheet music for this exact rendition of the music avalible somewhere? It would would be an honor to attempt it.
sounds like there are parts of the Rossini William tell overture in this song.
Wow. Very impressive.
beautiful sounds! he looks a little like bela lugosi :)
Grandioso!!!!!
Great
Brawsome!
Bloody genius!
That guy is crazy good!
GRAZIE
The best of accordionist fot me is a idol
@zeppy13131 I was noticing how "inefficient" the reeds appear to be compared to modern day accordions. The bellows don't show much resistance and have to be reversed quite often. But he obviously handles the instrument well and there is a smooth / quick transition without causing an abrupt disconnect in the notes. Also, the 'clatter' of the keyboard is noticeable too... I think he would have enjoyed the advances found in today's accordions.
Fine!
OMGOSH... I need to learn this by ear (one tiny piece at a time) lol... :-)
Guido was the older of the two brothers. There is no argument that Guido was the better player and showman. Pietro not only performed, but operated a very successful accordion music publishing house. Both brothers composed and recorded. Guido on Colombia. Pietro with Victor. Guido's big hit was "Kismet". Pietro's was "Pietro's Return".
he's the best bravo
Grandee
His complete works are available in one anthology published by Mel Bay Music Company. All notation is as he played the pieces on stage. I don't know if he edited this piece to fit the length of the Vitaphone. Send me you name and address and a check for thirty five dollars and I'll send you an autographed copy.
What an amazing player. Which of the brothers was the more popular? Or did they tour as a duo?
My father, Guido, was the oldest of the two brothers and began playing in Europe several years before my Uncle Pietro decided to play. My father gifted him with his first chromatic accordion and Pietro began to take lessons. My father already played professionally and you can read the whole story on line at guidodeiro.com. There is no doubt that Guido was the virtuoso. No contest.
airmuseum checked out the website, really cool information. Thanks.
Wow
I have added Bellini's attribution to the video info and Drigo's to Les Millions. My Uncle Pietro did not arrange the version being played by my father here. Pietro, you might like to know, hired arrangers and composers to write most versions of the classics he published. How about that?
Damn, your'e the most awesome person on the internet!
@airmuseum muy linda la ejecuacion del acordeon tambien he escuchado a LOS ACORDEONES DE AMERICA en youtube son muy buenos se los recomiendo que los escuchen
Very Nice Music! Can I use it for my presentation? :)
Do it some more...more more...
Hi, are you a descendant of GD? Wow!
I "discovered" him earlier this year, I got the complete recordings Vol.1 and I totally love it, and I'm not even particualrly fond of the piano accordion either!
Former husband of Mae West.
Was he related to Pietro? I remember his teaching books as a child.
Does anyone know the name of the song???
Whatho! This man really knows his business.
But I must say: with a hair and makeup like that and further he's being an actual Count, I just think, that after he's done with this overture, he's going to jump from behind that accordeon and sink his Dracula canines in my troath :D
Bravo 2024
Yes. It's me!
Please tell me what is your presentation?
Deiro really do masters his instrument, but that thing he's playing is from the 1920's or 30's and it really seems to leak more air than actually goes by the reeds. I would not try and actually learn from the use of he's bellows. The instrument also seems to have some kind of full bass side running emptying buttons because he's able to deplete the bellows without using his thumb or moving his hand from the middle of the bass section. I think he's using them constantly to control the bellows...
The Balkan players mentioned are all very talented, but they are using modern instruments, some amplified. One is playing a bayan. Comparing them to Deiro would be like comparing Schumacher in a Formula One Ferrari to DePalma in a Dusenberg. These guys would be playing the harmonica if it wasn't for Deiro popularizing the piano-accordion a hundred years ago.
How & ''is he '' related to Pietro Diero?
@airmuseum Ah! And a landsman too! Shalom!
is very beatifull the you music and please lisen in youtube to LOS ACORDEONES DE AMERICA are very good
@alemelech
That's my father your cracking jokes about. If anything, with the stage makeup the crew slathered on performers in 1928, the first year of making motion pictures, he looks a bit like Bela Lugosi. I knew all three men.
Do you play the accordion, or are you just a comedian?
All my y father's music is published in an anthology published by Mel Bay Music. You can buy it on eBay. Just type Deiro in the search.
I believe bela Lugosi was famous for his Dracula horror films.lugosi was a Romanian.
Did you know that the accordion and the bagpipes are the only two musical instruments that always go to Hell when they die?
these are quite similar to harmoniums...just held differently and having a a second side...
josefina bananos
duh it seems i can't teach you anything about being a prejudiced arsehole...I have played three row diatonic accordion and tried harmonium in india...
+metamaggot I agree with you: held differently, having two manuals and, of course, the standard bass system which allows to play chords in the left hand
Yo no sé. Esta grabación fue hecha en 1928 y Deiro se murió en 1950.
Are you italian-american?
Dracula plays accordion?
Nah, this is Welsh snooker player Ray Reardon at his other job.
No, no, Dracula does not, you dick! And Dracula he is not!
count deiro at earthlink point net.
That Guido Deiro was the first to record the PIANO accordion is irrefutable. Frosinni never played the PIANO accordion. He was a great friend of my father. As Guido introduced, named and popularized the PIANO accordion to American audiences, Frosini was forced to attach a fake keyboard to his CHROMATIC accordion to continue getting bookings in Vaudeville. Please access the website in the video description for all of the proofs and examples of the first Edison recordings of the PIANO accordion.
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I'm sorry sir, but you quite obviously have no idea of the construction of a piano- accordion. The only similarity between a harmonium and a piano-accordion is that they both make nose whether held upside down, right side up, squeezed,,,or smashed.
+airmuseum Accordion and harmonium are both aerophone free reed instruments with bellows. The differences are really small: in the harmonium is the bellows controlled by pedals, in the accordion with the arm; in the harmonium the air flow is in one direction, in the accordion in two, for this reason the accordion has coupled reeds.
My name is Count Guido Roberto Deiro and I am the only son of my deceased father, who became a naturalized citizen in 1928 . Therefore, I am the first natural born American in my family.
FIRE OBAMA!
Regards,
Guido