Concertina

A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows, and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons, which travel perpendicularly to the bellows.

The concertina was developed in England and Germany, most likely independently. The English version was invented in 1829 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, while Carl Friedrich Uhlig announced the German version in 1834. Various forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics of Ireland, England, and South Africa, and for tango and polka music.

Systems

The word concertina refers to a family of hand-held bellows-driven free reed instruments constructed according to various systems, which differ in terms of keyboard layout, and whether individual buttons produce the same (unisonoric) or different (bisonoric) notes with changes in direction of air pressure.

Because the concertina was developed nearly contemporaneously in England and Germany, systems can be broadly divided into English, Anglo-German, and German types. To a player proficient in one of these systems, a concertina of a different system may be quite unfamiliar.

Concertina (song)

"Concertina" is a song written and performed by American singer/songwriter Tori Amos, released as the fourth and last single from her 1999 album To Venus and Back. The commercial CD single was released in February 2000.

Background and release

The title of the song refers to the musical instrument Concertina. The lyrics use it as a metaphor to describe the experience of discomfort and unease in a social setting, likening it to being a squeezebox. When recording the song, Amos wanted to combine the acoustic piano with electronic drums, as she felt the dichotomy complimented the themes of the lyrics, which describe sensory discomfort in a "fierce calm" and being changed "particle by particle".

In the interview for her cover story in Alternative Press in October 1999, Amos commented on the content of the song:

Since 1999, the song has been featured in all of Amos' world tours, except the 2005 Original Sinsuality Tour in support of The Beekeeper.

Concertina was included on the setlist for the DVD release of Amos' concert for Live from the Artists Den in 2010.

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by: Mars Volta

In denial
Who will come clean all the ravenous debris
In disguise
Sideswiped by penance cerecloth sentencing
This scapegrace will pay my barking harangue... are you
listening?
On the 14th you stole
What hasn't grown old
In denial
File this under a bridge that he can't leave
Will those shadows glare
From that blank-rimmed stare
In a vacancy hush
Aunque me dejastes ahogado en el mar, acuestate en la
tierra de la realidad de tu sueño,
Manos me recuerdo solamente a ti te odio yo ya me voy
In denial
Who will clean up all this ravenous debris
In denial
File this under a bridge that he can't leave
And the storyville
Sawbones couldn't tell
The prescription to mend
All the broken wills
in the white lie wards
Don't you pretend
Tangled in thorns
To walk unborn
And this debt will collect
All the sickness that infects
Suddenly drives up
Sentencing valley
Count all the handshakes
Syringe overflows
Tangled in thorns
To walk unborn
And this debt will collect
All the sickness that you infect
And this debt will collect
All the sickness you infect




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