The terms melodeon and melodion can refer to any of several related musical instruments of the free reed aerophone family: 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. ...
A diatonic button accordion with one or more rows of melody buttons. (This term for diatonic accordion is used only in Great Britain, Ireland & France.) See the entry under accordion.
A type of barrel organ, sometimes called a Viennese reed organ.
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They were called "Dance Earnestly and Forget About Song Society" (DEAFASS).
DEAFASS supporters favored the accordion over the melodeon and the string bass over the electric bass.
Another instance of pastiche is the notoriously well-known theme song for the television show Gilligan's Island (music by George Wyle, lyrics by Sherwood Schwartz).
Their origins lie in the early 1970's with the English Country Dance Band Oak, one of a tiny handful at that time that combined melodeon with fiddles.
Two members of Oak, husband and wife Rod and Danny Stradling (melodeon and vocals), went on to form The Cotswold Liberation Front, which became The Old Swan Band in 1974.
She is best known for her work with the accordion and her violin fiddle technique, but has also played the tin whistle and melodeon.
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