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Accordion

noun

A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player. Synonyms: piano accordion, squeeze box.

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"Accordion" Quotes from Famous Books

... When we had been pulling silently for about a quarter of an hour, a small, thin sound came creeping across the water to us, that within another five minutes had resolved itself into the strains of the Marseillaise played upon an accordion and sung by a fairly good tenor voice, to which several others were almost instantly added. That was sufficient; the craft, whatever else she might be, was assuredly French, and we were relieved of the anxiety of approaching a vessel uncertain as ...

— A Pirate of the Caribbees • Harry Collingwood

... the men had a wheezy accordion and he relieved the monotony of the evening with some German airs. The big shed was unlighted, save as each man was his own lamp-post. Each made his own bed by the light of the lamp on his cap. As he undressed, the cap was the last article to be set aside and the extinguishing of the smoky, flickering ...

— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine

Words linked to "Accordion" : fingerboard, piano keyboard, keyboard instrument, free-reed instrument, clavier