Larry Miller (accordionist)

Miller is the son of sharecropper Abraham Miller and Algena Leger. He worked in primary and secondary education for 22 years, and began to build accordions as a hobby in 1978. In 1988, building accordions became his full-time profession. He was also one of the founders of the Cajun French Music Association. Miller retired from building accordions full-time in 2006. His grandson Jay continues to build accordions under the brand "Bon Cajun."^[1][2]

In 2003, he estimated he built approximately 85 accordions and repaired 200 – 250 accordions each year.^[1] He says each accordion was hand-crafted and took between 160 and 175 hours to make, and he made about 1200 in total.^[3]

• Miller, Larry G.; Miller, Mike (1984). You Can Play Cajun Accordion: Designed for Beginners. Swallow Publications. ISBN 9780961424596.
• Miller, Larry G. (October 2017). "The Craft of Building Cajun Accordions". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142 (4_Supplement): 2570. Bibcode:2017ASAJ..142.2570M. doi:10.1121/1.5014396.