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Buddy DeFranco
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
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Frank Marocco
Frank Marocco
musician
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Andy Sannella
Andy Sannella
American musician
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Charles Magnante
Charles Magnante
American accordionist
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Frankie Yankovic
Frankie Yankovic
Slovenian-American musician
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Esteban Jordan
Esteban Jordan
American musician
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Pedro Ayala
Pedro Ayala
American musician
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Stian Carstensen
Stian Carstensen
Norwegian musician
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Myron Floren
Myron Floren
American accordionist
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Dominguinhos
Dominguinhos
Brazilian singer and composer
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Richard Galliano
Richard Galliano
French musician
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El Prodigio
El Prodigio
Dominican Republic musician
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Jim Hall
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
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Gil Goldstein
Gil Goldstein
American jazz pianist and accordionist
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Robert Davine
Robert Davine
musical artist
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Joe Mooney
Joe Mooney
American jazz and pop accordionist and organist
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The Cracow Klezmer Band
The Cracow Klezmer Band
band
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John Serry Jr.
John Serry Jr.
American pianist and composer; son of John Serry, Sr.
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Pete Jolly
Pete Jolly
American musician
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C. J. Chenier
C. J. Chenier
American musician
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Tatico Henriquez
Tatico Henriquez
Dominican musician
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Dominic Frontiere
Dominic Frontiere
American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist (1931-2017)
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Nathan Williams
Nathan Williams
American Zydeco accordionist
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Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk
American musician, bandleader, and impresario
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Gus Viseur
Gus Viseur
French musician
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Otto Lechner
Otto Lechner
Austrian musician
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Renato Borghetti
Renato Borghetti
Brazilian musician
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Salvatore Camarata
Salvatore Camarata
American composer, arranger, trumpeter, and record producer
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Those Darn Accordions
Those Darn Accordions
musical artist
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Leon Sash
Leon Sash
American jazz accordionist
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Kamil Běhounek
Kamil Běhounek
Czech accordionist and composer
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Rockin' Dopsie
Rockin' Dopsie
American musician
Tommy Gumina
American accordionist

Tommy Gumina

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American accordionist
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Thomas Joseph Gumina (May 20, 1931 in Milwaukee – October 28, 2013) was an American jazz accordionist and musical instrument builder.

Gumina began playing accordion at age eleven, and took lessons on the instrument in Chicago throughout the second half of the 1940s. He began working with Harry James on television in 1952 as an accompanist for popular tunes, and in 1955 Gumina began working on his own, both solo and with an ensemble. He recorded with Buddy DeFranco and Willie Smith in the 1960s, and began experimenting with modifying an electric accordion, whose amplified sound resembled that of an electronic organ. He was occasionally active as a performer in the 1970s (e.g., with Art Pepper in 1974), but increasingly concentrated on his amplifier manufacturing business, Polytone Musical Instruments, which was based in North Hollywood, California. He and Joe Pass co-founded Polytone Records in 1987.