#ACCORDION INSTRUMENT PORTABLE#

The accordion models with five rows do not have a wider compass. The button accordion has three rows of descant buttons. On the slightly large instruments all kinds of tone combinations can be obtained through register stop keys that introduce a whole bank of tonal effects, including a tremolo. The Accordionist hangs his instrument from a belted sling and holds it to the body, which makes it easy to play standing up. The left hand plays the accompaniment consisting of bass and pre-set chord buttons. The right hand plays these melody keys and buttons. Accordions have piano keys and push buttons. It is played by compressing or expanding a bellows whilst pressing buttons or keys, causing valves, called pallets, to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds, which vibrate to produce sound inside the body. The Accordion is played as a bellow instrument. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. Very often, the accordion has been referred to as a one man band because it needs no accompanying instrument. An instrument called the bayan, with its own unique keyboard layout, was developed from it, for which various Russian composers have written music. The accordion has been used most often in folk music in Europe and the Americas. The accordion as we know it today was patented by Cyrill Demian, which concerned 'automatically coupled chords on the bass side'. The oldest name for the instruments belonging to this group is the harmonika.

#ACCORDION INSTRUMENT PORTABLE#

It is a portable instrument which is also sometimes referred to as a squeezebox.

Accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument which belongs to the hand-held bellows-driven category.

Accordion instrument