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The soul of tango

The origins of this instrument date back to 19th century Germany, when it was just a portable church organ. It is an evolution of the accordion (accordion, in German). Its authorship is usually attributed to luthier Heinrich Band, who created a portable instrument inspired by the concertina, to provide music for small churches that could not afford or maintain organs. Bandoneons can be chromatic or achromatic. The chromatics emit the same note by opening or closing the bandoneon. In achromatic, opening emits one note and closing emits a different one, thus being able to obtain dissonances or assonances. The achromatic were adopted by the interpreters of the tango.