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accordion::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | squeeze box |
| Type of | free-reed instrument, keyboard instrument |
| Has types | button accordion, piano accordion |
Examples of accordion
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He gave me one of those friendly Irish nods and continued to play his accordion.
From the suntimes.com
Together Through Life is characterised by a loose swing and prominent accordion.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
In 2007, Emchy blogged that she wanted an accordion and yearned to start a band.
From the sfgate.com
I cut the tree, and we pulled it forward so it would collapse like an accordion.
From the washingtonpost.com
And along with the jugs, visitors can play a washtub bass, guitar and accordion.
From the courier-journal.com
Boaz hosts weekly drop-in accordion lessons as well as private accordion salons.
From the sfgate.com
In fact his accordion was stolen in India and took considerable time to replace.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Completely self-taught, he took up the diatonic accordion at the age of fifteen.
From the en.wikipedia.org
One of the main modes of entertainment is one or more men playing the accordion.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
- (accordionist) a musician who plays the accordion
- In a graphical user interface, an accordion is a vertically stacked list of items (e.g. labels or thumbnails). Each item can be "expanded" or "stretched" to reveal the content associated with that item. There can be zero or more items expanded at a time, depending on the configuration.
- Accordion is a solitaire game using one deck of playing cards. The object is to compress the entire deck into one pile like an accordion.
- A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds; To fold up, in the manner of an accordion; Pleated
- A musical instrument with a small keyboard and free-vibrating metal reeds that sound when air is generated by pleated bellows.
- Squeeze-Box or Groan-Box
- Free reed instrument with a keyboard originating in Saxony and Bohemia, now common throughout the world in folk music. Various types include piano and button keyboards, and chromatic and diatonic tunings.
- The dominant, identifying instrument in Cajun music and zydeco. Some practitioners of Cajun music and zydeco play iatonic accordions that only include whole notes, or steps, within a given scale. ...
