Concertina vs. Accordion

Concertinanoun

(musical instruments) A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.

Concertinanoun

Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.

Concertinanoun

Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.

Concertinanoun

A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.

Concertinaverb

to become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina

Concertinaverb

to be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds

Concertinanoun

A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.

Concertinanoun

coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle

Concertinanoun

free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds

Concertinaverb

collapse like a concertina

Concertina

A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with buttons (or keys) usually on both ends, unlike accordion buttons, which are on the front.

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.