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melodeon, melodion|mɪˈləʊdɪən|
[In sense 1, an altered form of melodium, with a quasi-Gr. ending; in sense 2 perh. f. melody in imitation of accordion.]
1. A wind instrument, furnished with a keyboard, the bellows being moved by means of pedals worked by the feet of the performer; an earlier form of the ‘American organ’.
1847W. G. Hammond Jrnl. 30 Sept. in G. F. Whicher Remembrance Amherst (1946) 183 Under the lead of Goodale with his melodeon [they] sing ‘Sparkling and Bright’. 1850Rep. Comm. Patents 1849 (U.S.) 278 Improvement in Melodeons. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Melodeon. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. ii. 17 Our parlour organ and our melodeon were to be the best instruments of the kind. 1891Scribner's Mag. Sept. 356/2 A..broken-down melodeon. 1964Amer. Folk Music Occasional i. 39 As a youngster he heard his father's fiddle and listened to his mother's singing of the old songs to the strain of a wheezy melodeon.
2. A kind of accordion.
1880(title) The Art of playing the Melodion, or German accordion, without a Master. 1886Pop. Self-Instructor for the Melodeon 4 The Melodeon, or improved German Accordion.
3. A music-hall. U.S.
1840Boston Transcript 1 Jan. 3/1 A grand vocal and instrumental concert will be given by Mr. John Bartlett, at the Melodeon, Washington street, on Saturday evening. 1861E. Cowell Diary (1934) 283 Hattie James..was burned to death, lately at the Gayities or Melodeon. 1864in Webster. 1948–9Northwest Ohio Q. Winter 19 Parker occupied Cleveland's Melodeon again on June 12, 1854, when he delivered ‘The Progress of Mankind’ to a ‘crowded house’. |