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He joked that when he sang he felt like a "squeezebox with all the air squeezed out".

Somehow, though, Al finds a way to believe in himself, finding inspiration in the mundane — bologna sandwiches, rocky road ice cream — to rise from being a secret whiz at the devil's squeezebox to becoming one of the most successful rock stars of our time.

His father, a stern man who works at a dangerous factory that creates… something, calls musical parodies “evil” and Al’s instrument of choice “the devil’s squeezebox.”

It’s less true that Yankovic’s father abhorred the instrument as “the devil’s squeezebox” and violently pummeled the salesman.

As the third-generation owner of one of the last accordion companies in the country, Petosa can reel off the instrument’s virtues as enthusiastically as zydeco king Clifton Chenier laid down grooves on the squeezebox he bought from the family’s Seattle store in 1979.