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« Unless it has been removed, one of my favourite Gary Larson cartoons from “The Far Side” can be discovered at the back of a glass display case in Edinburgh’s Reid Museum of Musical Instruments.
In its upper panel, St. Peter can be seen at the Pearly Gates, greeting a newcomer with the words, “Welcome to heaven. Here is your harp.” In its lower panel, the devil is greeting a newcomer with the words, “Welcome to hell. Here is your accordion.”
Yes, like the comic Rodney Dangerfield, the accordion “don’t get no respect” in some classical music circles. In fact, in his notorious “Devil’s Dictionary,” the American journalist Ambrose Bierce goes so far as to define it as “an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin…”
