Accordion
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Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody section, also called the diskant, usually on the right-hand keyboard
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 A piano accordion (top) and a chromatic button accordion (bottom) | |
| Keyboard instrument | |
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| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 412.132 (Free reed aerophone) |
| Developed | Early 19th century |
| Playing range | |
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Depends on configuration: Right-hand keyboard Left-hand keyboard | |
| Related instruments | |
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Hand-pumped: Bandoneon, concertina, flutina, garmon, trikitixa, Indian harmonium, harmoneon Foot-pumped: Harmonium Mouth-blown: Claviola, melodica, harmonica, Laotian khene, Chinese shēng, Japanese shō Electronic reedless instruments: Digital accordion, Electronium | |
| Musicians | |
| Accordionists (list of accordionists). | |
| More articles or information | |
| Accordion, Chromatic button accordion, Bayan, Diatonic button accordion, Piano accordion, Stradella bass system, Free-bass system, Accordion reed ranks and switches | |
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