Italian Music TARANTELLA NAPOLETANA accordion Fisarmonica Akkordeonmusik Acordeon The Godfather

Italian folk music / Folk dance. The “Tarantella Napoletana“ is the tarantella associated with Naples. It is familiar to many viewers of popular media as a stereotypically “Italian“ musical riff or melody. In the films The Godfather (Il Padrino) (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1973) tarantella’s are played in the openings scenes. In this video the Tarantella Napoletana is played by Jo Brunenberg on a custom built Saltarelle Cleggan Accordion with 96 bass instead of 72 and on the right side 35 keys, of which the first is not a D-DRONE but a G instead and the highest tone is F. The old film is from 1903. Title: Tarantellen af Napoli By: Peter Elfelt, Denmark. Dancers: Hans Beck, Valborg Borchsenius More info: The old images are Photochrome prints produced from photographic images made between 1890 and 1900. These prints were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, an