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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.
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Guido Deiro
1886-1950
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81 Reviews from 1910-1940
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