Accordion
An accordion is a musical instrument that has keys similar to a piano, but is small enough for a person to hold. It makes sounds using air pushed and pulled through reeds using a bellows. The accordion can also have buttons instead of keys. The 6-plus-6-system with three rows has the same fingering in all twelve scales.
Classification | Keyboard |
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Inventor(s) | Friedrich Buschmann |
Developed | 1822 |
Related instruments | |
Concertina |
The accordion was first patented in 1829 in Austria by Cyrill Demain.[1]
It was invented in Germany by Friedrich Buschmann in 1822. Since then, the instrument has made a significant impact on the world of modern and classical music. The accordion is similar to a portable piano. It is a wind instrument, comprising two reed organs that are connected by folding bellows.
Accordion Media
A diatonic button accordion being played
- Bellows-driven instruments*
- Piano accordions: 1, 2, 13*
- Diatonic button accordion: 3*
- Chromatic button accordions: 11, 12, 14*
- Digital accordions (V-Accordions, Roland Corporation): 11, 12, 13, 14*
- Bandoneon: 4*
- English concertina: 5*
- Anglo-German concertinas (Anglo concertinas): 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Accordion reed ranks with closeup of reeds
Golden Prague.
Related pages
References
- ↑ "OnMusic Dictionary - Term". dictionary.onmusic.org.