"Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay"
Pietro Deiro
Victor 17506
November 15, 1913
Pietro Deiro, an influential accordionist, was born on August 28, 1888, in Salto Canavese, Italy.
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.
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.
He died in 1954.
