A diatonic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys (sometimes only one). The bass side usually contains the principal chords of the instrument's key and the root notes of those chords. 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. ... The bandoneón is a free-reed instrument particularly popular in Argentina. ... A Chemnitzer concertina is a musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed category, sometimes called squeezeboxes (Ed. ... A button accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... Bayan is an accordion-like Russian musical instrument. ... A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged so that the pitch increases diagonally along and across the rows. ... The flutina is an early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, which are configured to have the tonic of the scale on the draw of the bellows. ... 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 piano accordion An accordion is a small portable free-reed wind instrument with a keyboard, the smallest representative of the organ family. ... The trikitixa or eskusoinu (hand sound) is a two-row Basque diatonic accordion, with right-hand rows keyed a fifth apart and twelve unisonoric bass buttons. ... Button Accordion is type of accordion which evolves from the older and more basic melodeon. ... }} Wiktionary has a definition of: Melody In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ... In Music theory, the diatonic major scale (also known as the Guido scale), from the Greek diatonikos or to stretch out, is a fundamental building block of the European-influenced musical tradition. ... In music, a scale is an unordered collection of notes or pitches, as opposed to a series of intervals, which is a musical mode. ... In music theory, the key identifies the tonic triad, the chord, major or minor, which represents the final point of rest for a piece, or the focal point of a section. ... Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency. ... In music and music theory, a chord (from the middle English cord, short for accord) is three or more different notes or pitches sounding simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, over a period of time. ...

Some diatonic button accordions (e.g.: melodeon) are bisonoric, meaning each button produces two notes: one when the bellows is compressed, another while it is expanded; other instruments (e.g.: garmon')are unisonoric, with each producing the same note regardless of bellows direction; still others (e.g.: schwyzerörgeli, trikitixa) have a combination of the two types of action. A melodeon is a type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-pumped suction bellows. ... Hand bellows The bellows is a device for delivering pressured air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. ... 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... The trikitixa or eskusoinu (hand sound) is a two-row Basque diatonic accordion, with right-hand rows keyed a fifth apart and twelve unisonoric bass buttons. ...

See also

• Chromatic button accordion
• Piano accordion