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  2. Accordion - Wikipedia

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    An accordionist. Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord —"musical chord, concord of sounds") [1] are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

  3. Accordion in music - Wikipedia

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    Despite efforts by accordion performers and organizations to present the accordion as a serious instrument to the classical music world, the much-coveted breakthrough into the mainstream of serious musical circles did not take place until after leading accordionists more or less abandoned the stradella-bass accordion (an instrument limited to ...

  4. List of music styles that incorporate the accordion - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of articles describing traditional music styles that incorporate the accordion, alphabetized by assumed region of origin.. Note that immigration has affected many styles: e.g. for the South American styles of traditional music, German and Czech immigrants arrived with accordions (usually button boxes) and the new instruments were incorporated into the local traditional music.

  5. Category:Accordion - Wikipedia

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  6. Cajun accordion - Wikipedia

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    The Cajun accordion is generally defined as a single-row diatonic accordion, as compared to multiple-row instruments commonly used in Irish, Italian, polka, and other styles of music. The Cajun accordion has four reed ranks , i.e., four reeds for each melody button, and each reed bank is controlled by a corresponding stop or knob on the top of ...

  7. 'Accordion Eulogies' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

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    With Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico, a heartfelt memoir that blends personal and cultural history, Álvarez attempts to separate the man, now 90 and still living in ...

  8. Free reed aerophone - Wikipedia

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    The reeds of an early 20th-century button accordion, with closeup. A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame. Air pressure is typically generated by breath or with a bellows. In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, it is number: 412.13 (a member of interruptive free aerophones).

  9. Hohner - Wikipedia

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    Hohner has manufactured a wide range of instruments, such as harmonicas, kazoos, accordions, recorder flutes, melodicas, banjos, electric, acoustic, resonator and classical guitars, basses, mandolins and ukuleles (under the brand name Lanikai). Hohner is known mostly for its harmonicas.

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