Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A portable wind instrument with a small keyboard and free metal reeds that sound when air is forced past them by pleated bellows operated by the player.
- adjective Having folds or bends like the bellows of an accordion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small keyed wind-instrument, opening and shutting like a bellows, and having its tones generated by the play of wind thus produced upon metallic reeds.
- Resembling in its folds the bellows of an accordion: as, an accordion camera (one that is extensible), accordion skirts, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small, portable, keyed
wind instrument , whosetones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezedbellows upon free metallicreeds . - adjective
Pleated , or folded like abellows from an accordion. - verb transitive, intransitive To
fold up , in the manner of an accordion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was only when he contemplated college and looked for a major in accordion that he realized he had a problem.
Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: The Nerd of the Instruments, Cool at Last - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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It was only when he contemplated college and looked for a major in accordion that he realized he had a problem.
Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: The Nerd of the Instruments, Cool at Last - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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He won an accordion from a Chinese barkeep in Luna City by cheating at onethumb and thereafter kept going by singing to the miners for drinks and tips until the rapid attrition in spacemen caused the Company agent there to give him another chance.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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Eventually, the name accordion was used for all instrument of this type.
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The 2.0 edition -- with color graphics and 25 new positions d'amour to add to classics like the "accordion" -- will be available free later this month at palmfun. multimania.com.
Periscope 2007
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The Hammer Museum will be showing a beautiful newly-restored print of the 1913 Feuillade Fantômas serial Le Mort Qui Tue, with a live musical accompaniment by talented Mr. James Fearnley, whom you may better know as the accordion player in The Pogues.
Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum Howard A. Rodman 2011
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The Hammer Museum will be showing a beautiful newly-restored print of the 1913 Feuillade Fantômas serial Le Mort Qui Tue, with a live musical accompaniment by talented Mr. James Fearnley, whom you may better know as the accordion player in The Pogues.
Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum Howard A. Rodman 2011
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About half a century ago, the accordion was a very popular musical instrument around the world.
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About half a century ago, the accordion was a very popular musical instrument around the world.
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A chord from the accordion was the signal for the final episode … the dancing.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
uselessness commented on the word accordion
An instrument that sounds surprisingly good in techno music. This must be experimented with more. Where are all my polkaravers?
March 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word accordion
Ah, u, you know not what you say. I am a former accordionist, you see. (I've recovered.)
March 6, 2007
uselessness commented on the word accordion
Did you ever play trance? Makes all the difference in the world.
March 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word accordion
I've played *in* a trance. But I guess that's different. ;-)
March 6, 2007
uselessness commented on the word accordion
If your audience didn't have glowsticks, it didn't count.
March 6, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word accordion
One of my favorite bands has an accordion player. In fact the gentleman's rather famous among the fans for ruining his clothing during concerts, from sweating profusely and flinging himself all over the stage, falling onto his knees, playing while flat on his back, etc. Now *that's* playing an accordion!
March 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word accordion
No glowsticks. Not that I noticed, anyway. Oh well....
March 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word accordion
That *is* playing accordion, c_b. That's the spirit! Lady of Spain indeed. :-) And by the way, try to pick up one of TDA's black t-shirts emblazoned with a flaming accordion (and more flames up the sleeves). It's one of my favs.
March 6, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word accordion
God, I hate the accordion!
January 19, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word accordion
That makes me sad, SoG. It means you haven't heard good accordion music. Or buttonbox... or concertina...
Of course, I'm not known among acquaintances for enjoying subtle music...
January 19, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word accordion
Oh no! What did the poor little accordion say to get you so stirred up?
c_b, I *need* the name of that band.
January 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word accordion
SoG, say it ain't so! And jennarenn, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that chained is talking about Great Big Sea. Yes, c_b?
January 20, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word accordion
Really??? He didn't do that when they played at Wolftrap. *miffed*
January 20, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word accordion
Actually, it's the Pogues.
Great Big Sea has a very good buttonbox player but he also plays fiddle, flute, mandolin, and about fifteen other things. And he does not fling himself all over the stage. He's busy... well... playing. And singing incredible harmony.
January 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word accordion
I thought it might have been a particularly vigorous GBS concert. ;-)
January 20, 2008
john commented on the word accordion
Oh, the Pogues. I love love love the Pogues. I had tickets to see them in their Joe Strummer-fronted incarnation, in Madrid, playing a double bill with Public Enemy, if you can believe that. But I, uh, got lost. Took the wrong train. And missed the show. That was over 15 years ago and it still make quake with grief.
Excuse me a moment... *turns away, wiping eyes.*
January 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word accordion
How awful! And I don't even listen to the Pogues.
January 20, 2008
kewpid commented on the word accordion
n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
June 1, 2008
wolfnotes commented on the word accordion
Treaty or agreement made under musical duress (Semantricks)
November 28, 2009
sionnach commented on the word accordion
Methinks wolfnotes's definition is a bit of a stretch....
It's how protons and neutrons get along. And acids and bases too, for that matter.
November 28, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word accordion
Reesetee--do you really know Lady of Spain?
January 18, 2011
reesetee commented on the word accordion
No, no, no. I deliberately did not let myself learn "Lady of Spain."
January 19, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word accordion
That's funny! Whenever I find out that someone knows how to play accordion, the first question I ask is whether they know Lady of Spain. I don't know where I picked up that bad habit.
I do like the version by Les Paul and Mary Ford--but I don't think they used an accordion.
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word accordion
How about this?
January 19, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word accordion
Wow. That's just....
Is that kid Lithuanian?
I adore you, Pro.
January 19, 2011
reesetee commented on the word accordion
Let me tell you--that kid is going to have incredible forearms in a few years.
R: Not a bad habit at all. I've come to expect the Lady of Spain Question. :-)
January 20, 2011
oroboros commented on the word accordion
I'm astounded I didn't discover this page 4 years ago and expose a limited chapter of my past. I played accordion as a kid *and* I played in an accordion band. We played on a float in the Santa Barbara Fiesta Parade as well as other public venues for a number of years and appeared on the local TV station,KEYT, on several occasions. A few of the members could play 12th Street Rag with the bellow shake and were awe inspiring to the rest of us hacks.
January 22, 2011
reesetee commented on the word accordion
My people. *wipes away tear*
January 22, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word accordion
Wow, oroboros--that's awesome. Do you know Lady of Spain?
January 22, 2011
reesetee commented on the word accordion
:-)
January 23, 2011
oroboros commented on the word accordion
That's no Lady! That's my....uh, hmmmm, well, no on Lady of Spain, but I did do an interview or two with playing on the local radio, too: KTMS.
January 30, 2011
dinkum commented on the word accordion
WORD: accordion
DEFINITION: A musical instrument, the performance of which the Arch-fiend makes mandatory when you become an eternal inmate of Hell. Back among the living, the accordion is sometimes affectionately referred to as a "squeezebox", even though (or because) one slang meaning of squeezebox is "vagina".
EXAMPLE:
(1) ' “Welcome to heaven . . . Here's your harp." / "Welcome to hell . . . Here's your accordion.” '
― Caption of cartoon by Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, 1980-1994.
(2) " A squeezebox is heaven, an accordion, hell. "
― From Sayings of Dinkum
IMAGES:
A good copy of the Gary Larson Far Side cartoon "Welcome to Hell, here's your accordion" can be found at:
<< http://djbulls.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/cartoon_harp_n_accordion.jpg >>
Another reasonably good copy can be found at:
<< http://www.flickr.com/photos/13773848@N02/2065578455/ >>
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