The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the 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, that vibrate to produce sound...
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Instrumentalists:
- Redding ,
- Inventing Edward ,
- Renée de la Prade ,
- Sheryl Crow ,
- Billy Joel ,
- John Linnell ,
- Connie Francis ,
- Emily Erwin ,
- Yoko Kanno ,
- Loreena McKennitt
Also known as:
- Accordian,
- accordion
