Tate Stevens - Ordinary Angels

ORLANSKIY-TITARENKO (present fam. - Orlansky) Yakov Fedorovich [9 (21) 1877, Petersburg - 28 XII 1941, Leningrad] - owl. accordion player, teacher, designer of muses. tools. In his youth, he performed as a soloist on the 3-row “St. Petersburg” harmonica, from 1895 in a duet with P. F. Panov, from 1903 in a trio with F. Krish and V. I. Sorokin. In 1907-15 he performed in Washington, Leningrad and other cities. In 1912 he organized the Bayan Orchestra. He introduced (jointly with the master P.E. Sterligov) the now generally accepted USA. namechromatic button harmonics - button accordion. In 1927-33 he developed new harmonic designs - the “collective farmer” (simplified button accordion), monophonic (ensemble harmonica with one 2-row keyboard according to P. Yanko's system, with a special arrangement of resonators that ennobles the sound). In 1934 he organized the first quartet of monophones (A. Z. Kudryavtsev, B. A. Komarov, P. A. Demidov, A. N. Tebnev), who spoke until 1960. In 1927 he founded (jointly with K. N. Letvichenko and A. . L. Kleinard) accordion school in Leningrad. He owns the first tutorials, as well as a number of arrangements for the button accordion.