The garmon, commonly called garmoshka, is a kind of Russian button accordion, a free-reed wind instrument. A garmon has two rows of buttons on the right side, which play the notes of a diatonic scale,
Garmon Khromka
Garmon player
Russian khromka, made in the Tula musical factory in the 20th century.
Nikolay Beloborodov's chromatic piano accordion, 1878.
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
Garmon
…Garmon Keyboard instrument Classification Free reed aerophone Related instruments Accordion Garmon player The garmon (Russian: гармо́нь, IPA: , from Russian: гармо́ника, romanized: garmonika, IPA: , cognate of English harmonica), commonly…
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)