Squeezebox vs. Accordion

Squeezeboxnoun

synonym of accordionor concertina.

Squeezeboxnoun

alternative form of squeeze box||device for immobilizing an animal; box used by cavers for practising.

Squeezebox

The term squeezebox (also squeeze box, squeeze-box) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina. The term is so applied because such instruments are generally in the shape of a rectangular prism or box, and the bellows is operated by squeezing in and drawing out.

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.