See also:

• ACCORDION (Fr. accordeon; Ger. Handharmonica, Ziehharmonica)

ACCORDION (Fr. accordeon; Ger. Handharmonica, Ziehharmonica)  , a small portable See also:

• REED
• REED, ANDREW (1787-1862)
• REED, ISAAC (1742—1807)
• REED, JOSEPH (1741—1785)
• REED, THOMAS BRACKETT (1839—1902)

reed See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument with See also:

• KEYBOARD, or MANUAL (Fr. clavier; Ger. Klaviatur; Ital. tastatura)

keyboard, the smallest representative of the See also:

• ORGAN

organ See also:

• FAMILY

family, invented in 1829 by Damian, in See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna . The See also:

• ACCORDION (Fr. accordeon; Ger. Handharmonica, Ziehharmonica)

accordion consists of a See also:

• BELLOWS
• BELLOWS, ALBERT F
• BELLOWS, HENRY WHITNEY (1814-1882)

bellows of many folds, to which is attached a keyboard with from 5 to 50 keys . The keys on being depressed, while the bellows are being worked, open valves admitting the wind to See also:

• FREE

free reeds, consisting of narrow See also:

• TONGUES, GIFT OF, or GLOSSOLALIA (yXwova, tongue, aXeiv, speak)

tongues of See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal riveted some to the upper, some to the See also:

• LOWER

lower See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of the bellows, having their free ends See also:

• BENT
• BENT (E1. BENI)
• BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852–1897)

bent, some inwards, some outwards . Each See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

key produces two notes, one from the inwardly bent reed when the bellows are compressed, the other from the outwardly bent reed by suction (as in the See also:

• AMERICAN

American organ; see See also:

• HARMONIUM (Fr. harmonium, orgue expressif; Ger. Physharmonika, Harmonium)

HARMONIUM) when the bellows are See also:

• EXPANDED

expanded . The See also:

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch of the See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note is determined by the length and thickness of the reeds, reduction of the length tending to sharpen the note, while reduction of the thickness Iowers it . The right See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand plays the See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody on the keyboard, while the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• WORKS

works the bellows and manipulates the two or three See also:

• BASS
• BASS (the same word as " base," and so pronounced, but influenced in spelling by the Ital. basso)

bass See also:

• HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony keys, which See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound the See also:

• SIMPLE

simple chords of the tonic and dominant . The archetype of the accordion is the See also:

• CHENG

cheng (q.v.), or See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese organ, between which and the harmonium it forms a connecting See also:

• LINK

link structurally, although not invented for some See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years after the harmonium . The timbre of the accordion is coarse and devoid of beauty, but in the hands of a skilful performer the best See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments are not entirely without See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic merit . Improvements in the construction of the accordion produced the See also:

• CONCERTINA, or MELODION (Fr. concertina, Ger. Ziehharmonica or Bandoneon)

concertina (q.v.), melodion and melophone . See Adolf Mueller, Accordion-Schule See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

oder vollstandige Anleitung, das Accordion in kurzer Zeit richtig spielen zu erlernen (Wien, 1834) . See also FREE REED VIBRATOR . (K .