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How to pronounce concertina in English?

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Type Words
Type of barbed wire, barbwire
Type Words
Type of collapse
Type Words
Type of free-reed instrument
Has types chemnitzer concertina, bandoneon, anglo-german concertina, english concertina

Examples of concertina

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He is an accomplished player of the harmonica, concertina, banjo and jaw harp.
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And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.
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Beneath me I could feel the horse concertina so her back legs were right under her.
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There's also a fence stretching part of the way, topped with concertina wire.
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Exasperated, I agreed and resourced the concertina wire and pickets from battalion.
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The concertina wire needed to be flattened and removed with the help of a bulldozer.
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Squeeze a concertina, row a high-tech rowboat and sound a steamboat whistle.
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The canyon walls create a constantly changing concertina effect with volume.
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Lucy Ward is a British singer, guitarist and concertina player from Derby.
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More examples
  • Coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
  • Collapse like a concertina
  • Free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
  • A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons which travel perpendicularly to it. ...
  • To Venus and Back, the fifth album released by singer and songwriter Tori Amos, is a two-disc album set including a studio album and a live album. The first disc, titled Venus: Orbiting, features eleven original songs that finds Amos experimenting heavily in electronica. ...
  • 1942. CMH vol 6. WRC1-3315 (E. Keillor)
  • Similar to the accordion but hexagonal in shape and a button keyboard for each hand. It is a free reed, bellows operated instrument that is fully chromatic.
  • A BARBED WIRE or RAZOR WIRE coil, used to quickly emplace a temporary barrier which is easily retrieved and conveniently stowed; although derived from the musical instrument having a similar design, smooth or barbed wire that's stored on a spool tends to loop into entanglements unless stretched ...
  • A series of folds that can extend, compress or collapse.