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melodeon in British English
or melodion (mɪˈləʊdɪən)
noun music
1.
a type of small accordion
2.
a type of keyboard instrument similar to the harmonium
Word origin
C19: from German, from Melodie melodymelodeon in American English
(məˈloʊdiən)
US
noun
a small keyboard organ in which the tones are produced by drawing air through metal reeds by means of a bellows operated by pedals: it is much like a harmonium
Word origin
Ger melodion, coined (1806) by J. C. Dietz, Ger inventor, for another instrument < melodie < OFr, melodyImage ofmelodeon
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