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Bandoneon vs. Accordion — What's the Difference?

Bandoneon vs. Accordion — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bandoneon and Accordion

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Bandoneon

The bandoneon (or bandonion, Spanish: bandoneón) is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It is a typical instrument in most tango ensembles.

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.

Bandoneon

A musical instrument similar to a large concertina, especially popular in Latin America.

Accordion

A musical instrument played by stretching and squeezing with the hands to work a central bellows that blows air over metal reeds, the melody and chords being sounded by buttons or keys.
Her five brothers and sisters were singing to the accompaniment of an accordion
An accordion player

Bandoneon

(musical instruments) A small Latin American accordion played with buttons which is frequently used in tango ensembles.
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Accordion

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.

Accordion

Having folds or bends like the bellows of an accordion
Accordion pleats.
Accordion blinds.

Accordion

A box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.

Accordion

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Accordion

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Accordion

To fold up, in the manner of an accordion

Accordion

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Accordion

A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player

Accordion

Arranged in parallel folds;
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