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Obligatory reminder that pirates with accordions are even less historical than #TalkLikeAPirateDay 🏴‍☠️
The “pirate accent” dates to Robert Newton’s movies (Treasure Island (1950) and Blackbeard (1952)
#accordion or their cousins the little concertina, because they hadn’t been invented yet in the 16–1700s
See my #AccordionRevolution book for details 📚

Obligatory reminder that pirates with accordions are even less historical than #TalkLikeAPirateDay 🏴‍☠️
The “pirate accent” dates to Robert Newton’s movies (Treasure Island (1950) and Blackbeard (1952)
https://youtu.be/wdGuGaNDH6Q

Blackbeard The Pirate in 2 Minutes (Arrr!)
Arrrr! It be the 1952 movie ultra-condensed! Robert Newton hamming it up in the title role, yarrr!