Bajan

A faction recalled Duke mentioning Bajan ancestry at some point, which lent credence to the tale.

Sinfonietta for orch and two bajans (Russian accordions).

[…] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan.

[…] the Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, a three-quarter-of-an-hour work for a massively outsized orchestra, an ensemble of bajans (accordions), an extra brass group, a collection of percussion, chorus, and, very briefly, a narrator who represents the voice of Lenin making a stirring announcement through a megaphone, here dramatically read by Gennady Rozhdenstvensky.

Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, with Trio Voronezh playing piano, trombone and Russian folk instruments: the double-bass balalaika (a large triangular instrument), the domra (a short-necked lute), and a bajan (a button accordion, partially operated with the chin).

accordion or bajan solo

He takes a chamber-music approach to the large orchestral forces, isolating various instruments from time to time, and creating a glistening score with a vast, evocative range of sounds, partly through the inclusion of mandolins, guitars, theorbo, electronic keyboard and a bajan (an accordion with a very high register), which often create an alienating effect, as in the grotesque minuet in the first act.

And he pursued additional courses/training on the bajan, under the guidance of Maestro Gianluca Pica, and continued his advanced accordion studies with Maestro Alessandro Mugnoz at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali […]