” Lhe other day I was listening to the radio when I woke up, it was Yvette Horner playing the accordion. Your accordion tires me, Yvette, if you played the clarinet instead. And had the flamboyant musician chosen another instrument, as Antoine urged her, the life of this “piano with straps” would perhaps have been changed and the star of the Tour de France would no longer be the obligatory cliché for any journalist. who writes on this instrument.
Because if every Frenchman knows what an accordion looks like and sounds like, it can be for the better (in French songs at Barbara, Brel or Nougaro) or for the worse (Life in pink in the subway).
“It’s been said for a hundred years that it’s corny, ironically Félicien Brut, 36-year-old classical accordionist with an atypical background, c…