Accordion vs. Harmonium

Accordionnoun

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

Accordionnoun

(GUI) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.

Accordionverb

To fold up, in the manner of an accordion

Accordionnoun

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

Accordionnoun

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

Accordionadjective

arranged in parallel folds;

Accordionnoun

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.

Accordionnoun

folding like the bellows of an accordion

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—) 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.

Harmoniumnoun

(music) A small keyboard instrument that consists of a series of reed pipes, which sound when one of the keys is pressed to open a valve that allows air to pass through.

Harmoniumnoun

A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.

Harmoniumnoun

a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

Harmoniumnoun

a keyboard instrument in which the notes are produced by air driven through metal reeds by foot-operated bellows.