Accordion information

The accordion is a member of the wind musical instruments family. ... The accordion is similar to a portable piano. It is a wind instrument, comprising two reed organs that are connected by folding bellows. Like the piano, the accordion hosts a keyboard to frame the melodies of the tunes.

1. Who made the accordion?
2. How old are accordions?
3. What is a accordion used for?
4. What is an accordion for kids?

Who made the accordion?

Friedrich L. Buschmann, whose Handäoline was patented in Berlin in 1822, as the inventor of the accordion, while others give the distinction to Cyril Demian of Vienna, who patented his Accordion in 1829, thus coining the name.

How old are accordions?

This instrument was invented approximately 5,000 years ago. It consists of a series of bamboo pipes, a resonator box, a wind chamber, and a mouthpiece. It has a shape that resembles a phoenix and was introduced to European musicians in 1777. The first accordions were invented in the early nineteenth century.

What is a accordion used for?

The accordion has traditionally been used to perform folk or ethnic music, popular music, and transcriptions from the operatic and light-classical music repertoire.

What is an accordion for kids?

Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
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