The bandoneón is a free-reed instrument particularly popular in Argentina. It plays an essential role in the orquesta tipica, the tango orchestra. The term Squeezebox is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free-reed instruments. ... English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920 A concertina, like the various accordions, is a member of the free-reed family of instruments. ... A Chemnitzer concertina is a musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed category, sometimes called squeezeboxes (Ed. ... An accordion is a small portable free-reed wind instrument with a keyboard, the smallest representative of the organ family. ... Bayan is an accordion-like Russian musical instrument. ... Garmon The word garmon (Russian: гармонь) literally means accordion, in Russian although it usually usually refers to a specific class of Russian accordions that have two rows of buttons on the right side, which play the notes of a diatonic scale, and at least two rows of buttons on the... Categories: Music stubs | Keyboard instruments | Free reed aerophones | Sets of free reeds ... A melodeon is a type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-pumped suction bellows. ... A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument where sound is produced as air passes a reed in a chamber, causing the reed to vibrate. ... Orquesta tipica (or tango orchestra) is an orchestra or chamber group that traditionally plays Argentine tango music. ... Argentine tango music is traditionally played by an orquesta tipica, which often includes violin, piano, guitar, flute, and especially bandoneon. ...

Early bandonion, ca. 1905.

The bandoneón, called bandonion by its German inventor, Heinrich Band was originally intended as an instrument for religious music and the popular music of the day, in contrast to its closest cousin, the German Concertina (or Konzertina), considered to be a folk instrument. German immigrants to Argentina brought the instrument with them in the early twentieth century, where it was incorporated into the local music. Download high resolution version (1232x605, 83 KB)Early Bandonion, ca. ... Download high resolution version (1232x605, 83 KB)Early Bandonion, ca. ... Religious music (also sacred music) is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920 A concertina, like the various accordions, is a member of the free-reed family of instruments. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar (often from (1900 to 1999 in common usage). ...

Alfred Arnold bandoneón, ca. 1949.

Like accordions and concertinas, the bandoneón is played by holding the instrument between both hands and either pushing in or pulling out the instrument while simultaneously pressing one or more buttons with the fingers. Download high resolution version (938x614, 72 KB)Alfred Arnold Bandoneon, ca. ... Download high resolution version (938x614, 72 KB)Alfred Arnold Bandoneon, ca. ... An accordion is a small portable free-reed wind instrument with a keyboard, the smallest representative of the organ family. ... English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920 A concertina, like the various accordions, is a member of the free-reed family of instruments. ...

Unlike the accordion, the bandoneón does not have keyboards per se, but has buttons on both sides; and also unlike the accordion, most buttons on the bandoneón produce a different note when played closing than when played opening. This means that each keyboard has actually two layouts - one for the opening notes, and one for the closing notes. Since the right and left hand keyboards are also different, this adds up to four different keyboard layouts that must be learned in order to play the instrument.

Additionally, none of these keyboard layouts presents a scalar sequence of notes. Many of the adjacent buttons form triads, for example the buttons under three adjacent fingers might sound Ab, C, and Eb when the instrument is pushed in, and G, Bb, and Db when it is pulled out. This makes it easy to play simple music with I-V harmony, but quite challenging to play elaborate scalar passages and runs. In music, a scale is an unordered collection of notes or pitches, as opposed to a series of intervals, which is a musical mode. ... Triad is a collective term that describes many branches of an underground society and organizations based in Hong Kong (and also in Macao, and Chinatowns in Europe and North America), and obviously mainland China where they sell stolen nuclear weapons to terrorists. ...

External links

• Argentine Tango homepage (http://www.argentine-tango.com) - Includes video clip of a bandoneón player performing in San Francisco.
• Squeezebox (http://squeezebox.wikicities.com), an open repository of squeezebox knowledge on Wikicities.