Handharmonika

accordion, French accordéon, German Akkordeon or Handharmonika, Italian armonica a manticino, free-reed portable musical instrument, consisting of a treble casing with external piano-style keys or buttons and a bass casing (usually with buttons) attached to opposite sides of a hand-operated bellows.

On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to accordion, such as: concertina, groanbox, melodeon, squeezebox, stomach steinway, and windbox.

wind instrument It is a wind instrument, comprising two reed organs that are connected by folding bellows. Like the piano, the accordion hosts a keyboard to frame the melodies of the tunes. The sounds are produced by compressing and expanding the bellows - a mechanism that pumps air to the reed organs.

noun. ac·​cor·​di·​on ə-ˈkȯr-dē-ən. : a portable keyboard wind instrument in which the wind is forced past free reeds by means of a hand-operated bellows. accordionist.

The oldest name for this group of instruments is harmonika, from the Greek harmonikos, meaning "harmonic, musical". Today, native versions of the name accordion are more common.

SOUND PROPERTIES: The accordion has a very rich, reedy and organ-like sound. The accordion has the ability to play single or multiple notes on the keyboard (right side) as well as chords on the left side.

Simply put, a concertina is a free reed musical instrument, like the accordion and the harmonica. It consists of bellows that expand and contract, with buttons (or keys) on both ends, which push air through the reeds to make a note.

However, the very first true accordion appearance was in 1822 by a German instrument maker named Christian Friedrich Buschmann who created a keyboard with free vibrating reeds inside it and attached expanding bellows to it which he called a “Hand-Aeoline”.

the bandoneon Among these instruments, the bandoneon is perhaps the most key instrument in producing the authentic, emotional and nostalgic sound of tango. This unique accordion-like instrument with buttons and bellows was originally developed in Germany during the 1850s for use in small churches that could not afford organs.

Speaker Biography: Eva Ybarra, the "Queen of the Accordion," is one of on. y a few professional women accordionists in conjunto music. Ybarra has specialized in writing and composing original conjunto music while also exploring non-standard chord progressions, advancing the art form's evolution.

In 1829, Cyrillus Damian of Vienna created another version of this instrument and gave it the name of accordion because of the addition of buttons, played by the left hand, that sounded chords. ("Accord" is the French term for chord.) Eventually, the name accordion was used for all instruments of this type.

This essentially means 10 holes, like a harmonica. The button accordion is diatonic, meaning that it is tuned to one key (more or less). Also, like the harmonica, a different note plays for each button (hole) when the bellows are pushed or pulled. Just like the blow and draw on a harmonica.