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Accordion
Accordions
(from 19th-century German
Akkordeon
, from
Akkord
- "musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped
musical instruments
of the
bellows
-driven
free-reed aerophone
type, colloquially referred to as a
squeezebox
. A person who plays the accordion is called an
accordionist
. The
concertina
and
bandoneón
are related; the
harmonium
and
American reed organ
are in the same family.
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