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Accordion
- Hornbostel-Sachs
- 412.132
- Family
- Keyboard
- Origin
- Western Europe
About
A free-reed instrument played by compressing a bellows while pressing keys or buttons. Air driven across metal reeds produces the sound. Central to folk, tango, and popular music across Europe and the Americas.
Famous Examples
3These are specific, historically notable physical instruments — each with its own story, provenance, and place in musical history.
Accordion (black); Scandalli
Maker
Scandalli
Accordion (red); Scandalli
Maker
Scandalli
Button Accordion; Hohner
Maker
Hohner
Description
Button accordion.