Editing Accordion (section)

===Australia===
The earliest mention of the novel accordion instrument in [[Music of Australia|Australian music]] occurs in the 1830s.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172895152 |title=The Colonial Tides. The Regatta Dinner. |newspaper=Trumpeter General |issue=29 |location=Tasmania |date=7 March 1834 |access-date=2 December 2018 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The accordion initially competed against cheaper and more convenient reed instruments such as mouth organ, concertina and melodeon.
[[Frank Fracchia]] was an Australian accordion composer<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42462163 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[Cairns Post]] |issue=13,660 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=12 December 1945 |access-date=2 December 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and copies of his works "My dear, can you come out tonight"<ref>{{Citation | author1=Fracchia, F | author2=Sproule, Nellie | title=My dear, can you come out tonight | date=1930 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191726251 | access-date=2 December 2018 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and "Dancing with you"<ref>{{Citation | author1=Fracchia, F | author2=Sproule, Nellie | title=Dancing with you | date=1944 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/193500216 | access-date=2 December 2018 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> are preserved in Australian libraries.
Other Australian composers who arranged music for accordion include [[Reginald Stoneham]].<ref>{{Citation
  | title=Memories of a lovely lei [music] / Reg. Stoneham
  | author1=Stoneham, Reginald A. A.
  | author2=Humphries, Don
  | author3=Adams, Les
  | author4=Bowden, Charles
  | publisher=Reginald Stoneham Publishing House
  | language=en
  | url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-170238976
}}</ref>
The popularity of the accordion peaked in the late 1930s<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83703103 |title=Accordion Craze  |newspaper=[[Daily News (Perth, Western Australia)|Daily News]] |volume=LI |issue=17,892 |location=Western Australia |date=16 July 1932 |access-date=3 December 2018 |page=4  |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and continued until the 1950s.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167728833 |title=Piano Accordion Club Popular |newspaper=[[The Southern Cross (South Australia)|The Southern Cross]] |volume=LXII |issue=3105 |location=South Australia |date=10 March 1950 |access-date=3 December 2018 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The accordion was particularly favoured by buskers.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198329482 |title=Gossip of the Day  |newspaper=[[The Evening News (Rockhampton)|The Evening News]] |issue=4117 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=24 January 1935 |access-date=3 December 2018 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article144255196 |title=Australianalities  |newspaper=[[The Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga)|Daily Advertiser]] |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 April 1940 |access-date=3 December 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>