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Piano accordion
Piano accordion

A piano accordion is a type of accordion having a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano. It may have any of the available left-hand keyboard systems. piano accordion; resized from very large image in nl Wikipedia File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... piano accordion; resized from very large image in nl Wikipedia File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The musical keyboard, also known as the piano keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which produce notes. ... A grand piano A piano is a keyboard instrument, widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and also as a convenient aid to composing and rehearsal. ...


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Button Accordion is type of accordion which evolves from the older and more basic melodeon. ... The term Squeezebox is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free-reed instruments. ...

Squeezeboxes
Accordions Bayan | Chromatic button accordion | Diatonic button accordion | Flutina | Garmon' | Livenka | Melodeon | Piano accordion | Saratovskaya Garmonika | Schrammel accordion | Schwyzerörgeli | Trikitixa
Concertinas Bandoneón | Chemnitzer concertina

I Know How To PLay Guys The term Squeezebox is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free-reed instruments. ... 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. ... 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). ... A flutina 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 ... The terms melodeon and melodion can refer to any of several related musical instruments of the free reed aerophone family: Melodeon (organ), a type of 19th century reed organ. ... The Schrammel Accordion (Die Schrammelharmonika) A Schrammel accordion (German: Schrammelharmonika) is an accordion with a melody (right hand) keyboard in the chromatic B-Griff system and a twelve-button diatonic bass keyboard. ... 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. ... 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. ...


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Accordion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1823 words)
The accordion is played by compression and expansion of a bellows, which generates air flow across reeds; a keyboard controls which reeds receive air flow and therefore the tones produced.
The piano accordion is the instrument most often indicated by the term "accordion", but it is one of the most recent inventions among accordion types, appearing late in the 19th century and not accepted worldwide until the early 20th century.
In Scotland, the favoured diatonic accordion is, paradoxically, the instrument known as the British Chromatic Accordion.
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