Kategoria: evolution
Infernuko hauspoaTrikitixa is a Basque diatonic accordion with right-hand rows keyed a fifth apart and twelve unisonoric bass buttons. It is played with the tambourine, and normally it is accompanied with voice. Trikitixa’s first written evidence is attested in 1889, when diatonic accordion was used for music in a popular pilgrimage festivity of Urkiola (Bizkaia). In 1890, a trikitixa appears in a picture taken in Altsasu (Nafarroa). The diatonic button accordion itself was devised in Vienna in 1829, expanding thereafter all over Europe. In the Basque Country trikitixa had been expanded from B...
