Over the past month, commuters have been entertained and enraged by a pair of accordion performers playing the hit song “Despacito” on the TTC, but the wheeze of at least one of those accordions has been silenced by a court summons delivered by TTC officers.

There are numerous videos online of the musicians — one in a red jacket, one in black —who are thought to be brothers.

TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said several transit officers were on patrol just before noon Monday on a train moving through St. Andrew Station when they heard the distinctive song coming from further down the train. When they walked toward the music, they found the man in black, accordion in hand.

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At Union Station, the man was escorted off the train. Green says the man was “respectful and polite … very co-operative and he was very pleasant to our transit enforcement (officers),” although English was not his first language.

The accordion musicians have been warned twice before, Green said, and this was “the third strike.”

Although transit users sharing tweets and videos online have been split as to whether the players are good or bad, and the TTC hasn’t had specific complaints about them, Green said the men are breaking a bylaw: “interference with ordinary enjoyment of the transit system.”

The accordion player could have faced a $235 fine, but transit officers instead issued a 104 summons: a justice of the peace will decide if he should be fined if found guilty.

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He could also be let off with a warning.