Garmon'

The word garmon' (Russian: гармонь) literally means " a piano accordion An accordion is a small portable free_reed wind instrument with a keyboard, the smallest representative of the organ family. ...accordion," in Russian (русский язык  listen?) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. ...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 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. ...diatonic Scale (botany) Scale (zoology) Scale (medical) Scale (music) Scale (measurement) Scale (chemical) Scale (social sciences) Scale (spatial) Scale (computing) Order of magnitude Logarithmic scale Scale model Architects scale Engineers scale This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same...scale, and at least two rows of buttons on the left side, which play the primary A chord is a geometric figure. ...chords in the The word key has several uses: A key (lock) as a physical object (tool) used to manipulate a lock. ...key of the instrument as well as its In music, the relative minor of a particular major key (or the relative major of a minor key) is the key which has the same key signature but a different tonic, as opposed to parallel minor or major, respectively. ...relative A minor scale in musical theory can be viewed as the sixth mode of the major scale. ...harmonic minor key. Many instruments have additional right_hand buttons with useful An accidental is a musical notation symbol used to raise or lower the pitch of a note. ...accidental notes, additional left_hand chords for playing in related keys, and a row of free_bass buttons, to facilitate playing of Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency. ...bass Look up Melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ...melodies.

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The garmon' is also known by the names Tula accordion (Russian: Тульская гармонь), garmoshka (Russian: гармошка), garmonika (Russian: гармоника) and Hromka (Russian: Хромка).