Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven...
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Look up accordion, accordeon, accordionist, or Akkordeon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An accordion is part of a family of musical instruments....
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The bayan (Russian: бая́н, IPA: [bɐˈjan]) is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in the Russian Empire in the early 20th century and named after...
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A digital accordion is an electronic musical instrument that uses the control features of a traditional accordion (bellows, bass buttons for the left...
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Accordion Crimes is a 1996 novel by American writer E. Annie Proulx. It followed her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 work The Shipping News and was shortlisted...
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A piano accordion is an accordion equipped with a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano or organ. Its acoustic mechanism is more that of an organ than...
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The accordion is a graphical control element comprising a vertically stacked list of items, such as labels or thumbnails. Each item can be "expanded"...
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button accordion is a type of accordion on which the melody-side keyboard consists of a series of buttons. This differs from the piano accordion, which...
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Accordion band may refer to: Any band that uses an accordion prominently, or is made up entirely of accordions A Dominican jing ping band This disambiguation...
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or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody-side...
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The accordion is in a wide variety of musical genres, mainly in traditional and popular music. In some regions, such as in Europe and North America, it...
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Ramón Ayala (born August 13, 1928) is an American accordion player from Hidalgo, Texas, who currently resides in the Rio Grande Valley. He is the son...
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Accordion is a private equity-focused business advisory and management consulting firm headquartered in New York, New York. The firm specializes in corporate...
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Accordion is a patience or card solitaire using a single deck of playing cards. It is so named because it looks like accordion pleats, which have to be...
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An accordion concerto is a solo concerto for solo accordion and symphony orchestra or chamber orchestra. The accordion concerto has its origin in the...
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A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged chromatically. The bass-side...
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is a Mexican singer, accordion player, composer and songwriter of Norteño music. He is also known as the "King of the Accordion". Ayala has won four Grammy...
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In physics, the accordion effect (also known as the slinky effect, concertina effect, elastic band effect, and string instability) occurs when fluctuations...
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Plastic bottle (redirect from Accordion bottle)
is a process of building the label into the bottle during molding. An accordion bottle or collapsible bottle is a plastic bottle designed to store darkroom...
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Garmon (redirect from Tula accordion)
English harmonica), commonly called garmoshka, is a kind of Russian button accordion, a free-reed wind instrument. A garmon has two rows of buttons on the...
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Articulated bus (redirect from Accordion bus)
slinky bus, bendy bus, tandem bus, vestibule bus, stretch bus, or an accordion bus, is an articulated vehicle, typically a motor bus or trolleybus, used...
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A Cajun accordion (in Cajun French: accordéon), also known as a squeezebox, is single-row diatonic button accordion used for playing Cajun and Creole...
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Accordion Noir is the name of a weekly radio show originating from Vancouver, Canada, and an annual music festival there associated with the show. Bruce...
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Accordion (Russian: Гармонь, romanized: Garmon) is a 1934 Soviet musical film directed by Igor Savchenko. The merry village accordionist Timofey Dudin...
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An accordion cut is a technique in butchery, similar to butterflying, in which a thick piece of meat is extended into a thin one with a larger surface...
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of articles describing traditional music styles that incorporate the accordion, alphabetized by assumed region of origin. Note that immigration has affected...
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relevant topics, although there are also many norteño love songs. The accordion and the bajo sexto are traditional norteño's most characteristic instruments...
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A Schrammel accordion (German: Schrammelharmonika) is an accordion with a melody (right hand) keyboard in the chromatic B-Griff[clarification needed] system...
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Pleat (redirect from Accordion Pleats)
called tucks. Accordion pleats or knife pleats are a form of tight pleating which allows the garment to expand its shape when moving. Accordion pleating is...
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Accordion Solo! is a 2005 album by Ten in the Swear Jar. It is the band's third release under that name, a complete discography derived from all their...
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