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http://accordions.com/news.aspx?d=12-Feb-2016&lang=en&s=11395
http://accordions.com/news.aspx?d=12-Feb-2016&lang=en&s=11395
12-Feb-2016
20th Anniversary, Sastamalan Koulutuskuntayhtymä Accordion Repair School - Finlandby Kimmo Mattila |
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 On Saturday 13th February the Sastamalan Koulutuskuntayhtymä Ikaalinen Handicraft school celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Accordion Department. Students are able to study professionally accordion construction, tuning and repairing. The school offers official state supported studying programs to provide professional skills for other professional fields too. The accordion course was accepted into the school program 20 years ago in 1995. The principal teacher is Tapio Nysten, and several experts have lectured in the school as visitor teachers. In many countries, there is a shortage of properly trained accordion repair technicians and this school has been important in Finland, training young people to provide these valued services to the accordion community. The school has wide international contacts and network, thanks to the Finnish Accordion Institute, including Italian and German accordion factories and workshops. Three years ago the school was an essential part of the 'Kauri-accordion project', when three diatonic accordions were constructed by the artisan Aaro Luukinen. The special Kauri timber was provided from New Zealand by Kevin Friedrich to build these beautiful instruments (picture right), now regularly used in concerts in Finland, USA and New Zealand. www.accordions.com/kevin/n_kauriaccordion.htm Future plans of the school include more cooperation with foreign experts such as Swedish accordionist Jörgen Sundeqvist who lectured in the school recently and is pictured with teacher Tapio Nysten. CIA Secretary General and Finnish Accordion Institute President Kimmo Mattila, will be a speaker at the 20th anniversary celebrations. |