piano accordion

piano accordion

n (Instruments) an accordion in which the right hand plays a piano-like keyboard. See accordion piano accordionist n

ac•cor•di•on

(əˈkɔr di ən)

n. 1. a portable wind instrument with a keyboard and a hand-operated bellows for forcing air through small metal reeds. adj. 2. having evenly spaced, parallel folds like the bellows of an accordion: accordion pleats. [1831; < German, now sp. Akkordion, Akkordeon] ac•cor′di•on•ist, n.

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piano accordion - a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the playeraccordion, squeeze boxfree-reed instrument - a wind instrument with a free reedkeyboard instrument - a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboardclavier, piano keyboard, fingerboard - a bank of keys on a musical instrument

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