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accordion

Also known as musette-type

Accordions (from 19th-century German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") 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). The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody section, also called the diskant, usually on the right-hand keyboard, with an accompaniment or Basso continuo functionality on the left-hand. The musician normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand side (referred to as the keyboard or sometimes the manual), and

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An accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument that produces sound by forcing air past reeds as the musician operates a bellows, originating from 19th-century Germany. It combines a melody section on the right-hand keyboard with an accompaniment section on the left-hand side, allowing a single musician to play both melody and harmony simultaneously.

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Instrument.name: Accordion
Instrument.image: A convertor free-bass piano-accordion and a Russian bayan.jpg
Instrument.caption: A piano accordion (top) and a chromatic button accordion (bottom)
Instrument.background: keyboard
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs: 412.132
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc: Free reed aerophone
Instrument.developed: Early 19th century
Instrument.range: Depends on configuration: Right-hand keyboard Chromatic button accordion Diatonic button accordion Piano accordion Left-hand keyboard Stradella bass system Free-bass system
Instrument.related: Hand-pumped: Bandoneon, concertina, flutina, garmon, trikitixa, Indian harmonium, harmoneon Foot-pumped: Harmonium Mouth-blown: Claviola, melodica, harmonica, Laotian khene, Chinese shēng, Japanese shō Electronic reedless instruments: Digital accordion, Electronium
Instrument.musicians: Accordionists (list of accordionists).
Instrument.articles: Accordion, Chromatic button accordion, Bayan, Diatonic button accordion, Piano accordion, Stradella bass system, Free-bass system, Accordion reed ranks and switches

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Accordéon

Inventaire des richesses du patrimoine culturel immatériel occitan : chants, danses, instruments de musique, savoir-faire artisanaux ou artistiques.

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Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 412.132
Commons gallery: Accordion
Commons category: Accordions
exact match: wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02672831-n
Unicode character: 🪗
inception: 1829-00-00
described at URL: mondes.occitanica.eu/oc/explorar/arts/los-instruments/acordeon

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Contents

Original name
History
Construction
Universal components
Bellows
Body
Pallet mechanism
Variable components
Right-hand keyboard systems
Left-hand keyboard systems
Reed ranks and switches
Classification of chromatic and piano type accordions
Straps
Electronic and digital
Unusual accordions
Manufacturing process
Use in various music genres
Use in traditional music
Use in jazz
Notable jazz accordionists
Left hand techniques
Use in popular music
Use in rock music
Use in classical music
Australia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
China
Colombia
Czech Republic
Malaysia
Mexico
North Korea
United States
Other audio samples
See also
Notes
References
External links

The accordion belongs to the free-reed aerophone family. Other instruments in this family include the concertina, harmonica, and bandoneon. The concertina and bandoneon do not have the melody–accompaniment duality. The harmoneon is also related and, while having the descant vs. melody dualism, tries to make it less pronounced. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor.