"Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay"<br /><br />Pietro Deiro<br /><br />Victor 17506<br /><br />November 15, 1913<br /><br />Pietro Deiro, an influential accordionist, was born on August 28, 1888, in Salto Canavese, Italy.<br /><br />He emigrated to the United States as a steerage passenger on the S/S La Savoie in 1907. After arriving in the U.S., he lived with his Uncle Frederico and worked in the coal mines of Cle Elum, Washington.<br /><br />He began playing Diatonic button accordion professionally in a tavern in Seattle in 1908. Within a few months, his brother Guido Deiro (an accomplished piano-accordionist) arrived in Seattle and taught his brother how to play the piano accordion. <br /><br />He died in 1954.
