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Accordion · piano & button

Accordion splits cleanly: piano accordion lives in eclectic full-service schools; button accordion lives in folk-tradition organizations. Decide which before you call.

🧭 Quick orientation — which accordion?
  • Piano accordion — piano-style keys on the right. Most versatile, easiest to find a general teacher.
  • Chromatic button accordion — classical, European, jazz.
  • Diatonic button box / melodeon — Irish, Cajun, French, Tex-Mex folk traditions.

🪗 Piano accordion — schools to ask

Broad / eclectic schools most likely to have or place a piano-accordion teacher. Call to confirm.

Community Music Center of Boston🆓 Sliding
Widest eclectic instrument range · best first call
📍 34 Warren Ave · Boston
📞 (617) 482-7494
Kelly's Music And More
Eclectic · lets students pick unusual instruments
📍 410 Great Rd #341 · Littleton
📞 (978) 973-8207
European Music Academy
⭐ European-tradition school · accordion central
📍 142 Adams St · Newton
📞 (857) 234-0557
Maestro Musicians / Lexington Music School
Large multi-instrument faculty
📍 2600 Massachusetts Ave · Lexington
📞 (339) 329-9894
Falcetti Music4.3
Large full-line store + school · likely to teach accordion
📍 1755 Boston Rd · Springfield (Western MA)
📞 (413) 543-1002

🪗 Button accordion — by tradition

Button accordion is taught through cultural / folk organizations, not general music schools.

Irish Cultural Center⭐ 4.7 · 375 reviews
⭐ Best for Irish-style button box / melodeon
📍 200 New Boston Dr · Canton
📞 (781) 821-8291
Passim School of Music
⭐ Region's folk & roots hub · most likely connector
📍 26 Church St · Cambridge (Harvard Square)
📞 (617) 492-5300
Klezmer AcademyCultural hub
Klezmer ensemble · accordion (both types) central
📍 199 Coolidge Ave · Watertown
📞 (617) 923-2143
💡 The actually-best sources for an accordion teacher

Even searching by tradition, dedicated teachers barely surface on Google Maps — what surfaces are the organizations that host them. Real paths:

  • Passim School of Music (above) — single best lead for either type · accordion teachers in the Boston folk scene almost all pass through Passim's orbit.
  • Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann · Boston-area branches — Irish button accordion / melodeon · teaches + runs sessions.
  • New England accordion clubs / NEMC — player networks keep teacher lists for both types.
  • American Accordionists' Association (AAA) & Accordionists & Teachers Guild (ATG) — national teacher directories, searchable by region, covering both piano and button.
  • Klezmer Conservatory Band · Brandeis circles (Waltham) — klezmer-style accordion, both systems.
  • New England Cajun / zydeco dance community — diatonic button box for Cajun / zydeco style. Search "Boston Cajun zydeco."

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