Georgian accordion

The Georgian accordion was created in the 19th century, presumably by German colonists who lived in Georgia since 1818.

Tushetian garmoni is especially popular in East Georgian mountainous regions, more precisely in Tusheti.

Most Georgian garmonis have an interesting shutter mechanism – a hook and a loop inside the corpus.

Performed on traditional garmoni are dance melodies, lyrical-love, epic and humorous, rarely travelers songs and dirges.

There is a footage where the garmoni player plays the ritual song melody standing in the centre of the two storey round dance "Korbeghela".

It should be mentioned that in the music of some ethnographic regions garmoni has replaced traditional instruments (such as panduri, chianuri, chiboni).

Unlike the instruments introduced from abroad (mandolin, guitar, dududki, zurna), garmoni underwent serious changes in Georgia – acquired original form and appearance.