For our Global Hit today, we focus on a man and his instrument.

The man is a composer from Argentina named Dino Saluzzi. And Dino likes to let his instrument do the talking. The World's William Troop has the story.

Dino Saluzzi's instrument is the bandoneon. That's the button accordion popular in Argentina. Saluzzi's dad gave him his first bandoneon when young Dino was just seven years old. It became his childhood passion, and the passion continues to this day.

Sluzzi: "I'm in love with this instrument. The instrument gives to us a kind of communication that you don't find with people."

It's through the bandoneon that Dino Saluzzi communicated with people in his hometown of Campo Santo in northern Argentina. Saluzzi remembers Campo Santo as a poor village. His dad worked in the local sugar refinery, and played the bandoneon at night. Six decades later, Saluzzi pays tribute to his father with this song, called "Tango a Mi Padre."

Today, Dino Saluzzi is regarded as a master of the bandoneon. That draws comparisons with that other bandoneon master Astor Piazzola. Piazzola made Argentina's tango famous around the world. But Saluzzi says he's not out to emulate Piazzola because "quote" Piazzola is Piazzola and Dino Saluzzi is Dino Saluzzi.

Saluzzi is not just a tango musician, either. He's well regarded in jazz and classical circles, too. For his latest CD, Ojos Negros, or Black Eyes, Saluzzi paired up with a cellist from Germany named Anja Lechner.

Saluzzi and Lechner played together for six years before going into the recording studio. They took their time getting it right. They worked hard. But Dino Saluzzi wouldn't have it any other way.

Saluzzi: "The life of the composer, of the musician, to be honest, to be true, is difficult. It's not easy."