End note 2: Professor Gregory F. Romanoff, from a letter published in Accordion News magazine in 1935

End note 3: "An Earlier Complaint," an article published in Variety magazine of February 25, 1914

End note 4: The latter of these two articles definitely appeared after July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and before May 23, 1915, when Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary.

No one would have believed that there could be so much music in a bellows decorated with stops.

Guido Deiro Scrapbook No. 1, page 3

News Clipping - ca. 1911, apparently from a city in the South

DEIRO SETS EVERY ONE TO CLAPPING

Orpheum Entertainer is Given Remarkable Ovation by His Hearers

The real hit with yesterday's audiences proved to be an Italian named Deiro, playing a piano accordeon. He received a remarkable ovation. He opened with the quartette from "Rigoletto," then swung into popular stuff, and, Heaven be praised, never once played "Poet and Peasant," thereby distinguishing himself from every other accordeon or xylophone player who has been here in the last twenty-one years.

He Makes Great Enthusiasm

He has an exquisite sense of time and of rhythm, and this fact, with an expressive smile and an exact knowledge of what his public wants, are the secrets of his unusual quality as an entertainer. He galvanized a lot of apathetic auditors into wakeful hilarity as soon as he came on, and when he played America's real nation anthem, "Dixie," the roof was raised several inches.

Guido Deiro Scrapbook No. 1, page 4

News Clipping - ca. 1911

Squeezes Harmonies Cleverly

A glorious surprise to many who regard the accordion as an instrument of torture held over from the Spanish inquisition and fandango was the spry playing on the "piano accordion" of one briefly named Deiro.

Guido's son, Count Guido Roberto, wrote, "Contrary to any thing heard so far, Pietro never played accordion professionally in Europe. Guido never lived in Cle Elum...I have been there and searched the vital statistics and met my cousins...several including another 'Guido Deiro,' who passed away at 91 (his son Tom and I are cousins and good friends, in fact it was he who put Peter Muir on to me). I Remember my father visiting Cle Elum, but always immigrating to and playing accordion in Seattle. It was father who encouraged Pietro to become a professional musician -- teaching him to read music and play the piano keyboard instrument." Letter to the webmaster dated February 16, 2002.

End note 2: Professor Gregory F. Romanoff, from a letter published in Accordion News magazine in 1935

End note 3: "An Earlier Complaint," an article published in Variety magazine of February 25, 1914

End note 4: The latter of these two articles definitely appeared after July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and before May 23, 1915, when Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary.

81 Reviews from 1910-1940

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