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{{Short description|Basque diatonic button accordion}}
{{Main|Accordion}}
[[Image:2006-11-30 SanAndres 6699.jpg|thumb|right|310px|Performance featuring a ''trikiti'' with tambourine accompaniment]]
The '''trikiti'''<ref>[[Euskaltzaindia]] (Basque Language Academy): [https://www.euskaltzaindia.eus/index.php?sarrera=trikiti&antzekoak=ez&option=com_hiztegianbilatu&view=frontpage&layout=aurreratua&Itemid=410&lang=eu&bila=bai "trikiti"], ''Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia'' (Dictionary of Euskaltzaindia).</ref> ([[standard Basque]], pronounced {{IPA-eu|trikiti|}}) '''trikitixa''' ([[Basque dialects|dialectal Basque]], pronounced {{IPA-eu|trikitiʃa|}}), or '''eskusoinu txiki''' ("little hand-sound", pronounced {{IPA-eu|es̺kus̺oɲu tʃiki|}})) is a two-row [[Basque music|Basque]] [[diatonic button accordion]] with right-hand rows keyed a [[perfect fifth|fifth]] apart and twelve [[unisonoric]] bass buttons. The [[onomatopoeia]] ''trikitixa'', apparently stemming from the sound emitted by the [[tambourine]], originally referred to a traditional Basque ensemble, made up of the instrument which now bears the name as well as [[alboka]], [[txistu]] and other instruments.
Probably introduced by Italian immigrants coming from the [[Alps]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://musicamscire.blogspot.fr/2011/10/les-instruments-basques-2-le-trikitixa.html |title=Les instruments basques (2) : Le trikitixa et le pandero |author=Fabricio Cardenas|date=2 October 2011 |website=Musicam scire |language=fr |access-date=25 April 2016}}</ref> the trikitixa's first written evidence is attested late in the 19th century, exactly in 1889, when diatonic accordion was used for music in a popular pilgrimage festivity of [[Sanctuary of Urkiola|Urkiola]] ([[Biscay]]). In 1890, a trikiti appears in a picture taken in [[Altsasu]] (Navarre), a railway junction.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://trikitixa.eus/?page_id=55 | title = What is trikitixa? | publisher = Euskal Herriko Trikitixa Elkartea | access-date = 2019-06-03}}</ref> Therefore, some point to the instrument's import to the [[Basque Country (historical territory)|Basque Country]] from [[Italy]] through the port of [[Bilbao]], while other sources suggest that this kind of diatonic accordion was brought in by Italian railway workers from the Alps. The [[diatonic button accordion]] itself was devised in Vienna in 1829,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.trikitixa.net/index.php?id=123 | title = Trikitixa, soinu diatonikoa | publisher = Euskal Herriko Trikitixa Elkartea | access-date = 2008-02-27}} Site in Basque</ref> expanding thereafter all over Europe.
The pair of [[diatonic button accordion]] along with [[tambourine]] gradually grew in popularity and was adopted to perform in local and popular festivities, where the young danced to its tunes (''fandangos, arin-arin'' etc.), despite the Catholic Church's resistance, who dubbed it "hell's [[bellows]]" on the grounds that its dance-inciting and lively music would lead Basque youths into temptation.
That playing pattern remained unchanged up to the 1980s, when [[Kepa Junkera]] and [[Joseba Tapia]] started to develop unprecedented ways of playing trikiti. While both authors came in for much criticism for their novelties and experimenting, they caught on and both styles, traditional and modern trikiti, have found their way and consolidated their separate paths. Both performers remain nowadays key figures of trikiti accordion. There have been influences of [[Tejano music|Tejano]] artists like [[Flaco Jiménez]] and other international players. Other renowned players include [[Alaitz Telletxea]], [[Iñaki Malbadi]], [[Maixa Lizarribar]], [[Xabi Solano]], [[Xabi Aburruzaga]], [[Iker Goenaga]] and the Catalan [[Carles Belda]].
Currently traditional style ensembles consist of a pair playing trikiti ([[diatonic button accordion]]), [[tambourine]] and voice. Players typically use a highly ornamented and swift style, along with [[staccato]] triplets.
== See also ==
* [[Bandoneon]]
* [[Accordion]]
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