Under the Needle: Family business ready for its encore
Mike Lewis
Seattle P-I

“The accordion was, post-war, the most popular instrument in America by far,” Petosa said, sitting in his desk at Petosa’s Accordions and Accordion Museum in Wallingford.

Back then, the legendary Dick Contino, a squeezebox prodigy from Fresno, Calif., ranked among the nation’s most popular musicians, and only flamenco accompanists, lonely cowboys and luckless bluesmen plucked the guitar’s limited sonic range.