Bandoneon vs. Accordion

Bandoneonnoun

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

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.

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.