She was interviewed on NPR and got some well-desearved press. In her later years Alice was highly involved promoting others with the Friends of the Accordion group in Los Angeles. She has been sadly neglected by music historians, Her accordion was an unusual "finto-piano" (fake/false piano) keyboard which looks like a piano but is played like a three-row chromatic button accordion. Earlier Pietro Frosini played a similar instrument and later Leon Sash did.
From:http://jazzaccordionmasters.blogspot.com.br
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