Diatonic button accordion
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A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody-side keyboard contains one or more ro
Accordéon diatonique
Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century).
Three-row button accordion with 12 bass buttons
1950s two-row instrument in C♯/D by the Paolo Soprani company, of the type favoured by Irish musicians; grey celluloid finish.
Accordion
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Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type. The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody section
Diatonic button accordion
…Dances from a New England Album, 1856 for orchestra by William Bergsma includes parts for melodeon (movements I–III) and harmonium (movement IV). Accordion Bandoneon…
A piano accordion (top) and a chromatic button accordion (bottom)
Eight-key bisonoric diatonic accordion (c. 1830)
An accordionist
A group of accordionists in Ticino (early 20th century)