Milenio writes that the accordion arrived in Mexico in the 19th century and that in Nuevo León it is used for genres from the polka to the cumbia. One line of the article reads: “El acordeón nos llega de la tradición centroeuropea desde el siglo XIX” (The accordion comes to us from the Central European tradition, since the 19th century).
Two accordion models of the maker Hohner carry Spanish names, Compadre and Corona. In 2024, a study of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez observed that these names “han incorporado palabras en nuestro idioma” (have taken words from our language). The author found no explanation for the choice.