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accordion

Musical instrument of the free-reed organ type, comprising left and right wind chests connected by flexible, pleated bellows. The accordionist's right hand plays the melody on a piano-style keyboard of 26–34 keys, while the left hand has a system of push buttons for selecting single notes or chord harmonies.

It was patented under the name of Handäoline by Friedrich Buschmann in Berlin, Germany, in 1822, and by Cyrill Damien under the name Akkordion (German ‘harmony’) in Vienna, Austria, in 1829. The accordion spread throughout the world and can be heard in the popular music of Germany, France, China, Russia, and the USA.



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Dan went on, with a cautious look at Tom Plait, holding the accordion low in the bunk:
Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
The young Italian who furnished it would even get up and dance, his arms around his girl, playing the accordion behind her back.
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Our music consisted of the well-mixed strains of a melodeon which was a little asthmatic and apt to catch its breath where it ought to come out strong, a clarinet which was a little unreliable on the high keys and rather melancholy on the low ones, and a disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked--a more elegant term does not occur to me just now.
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