A portable musical instrument played by stretching and squeezing a central bellows to blow air over metal reeds, the melody being sounded by buttons…

A portable musical instrument played by stretching and squeezing a central, usually polygonal, bellows to blow air over metal reeds, the notes being…

Any of various kinds of accordion, esp. one shaped like a guitar or cello and designed to be held on the player's lap.

= melophone, n. Obsolete.

A kind of accordion resembling the concertina.

an accordion incorporating a small vertical keyboard, like that of a piano.

A kind of accordion or concertina, shaped and played like a hurdy-gurdy.

A kind of small button accordion that plays different notes on the press and the draw, popular for playing folk music.

†(a) Nautical a ship's harmonium (obsolete); (b) an accordion or concertina.

A concertina; also, an organ-bellows or organ. Also transferred (see quot. 1934).

A kind of button accordion invented by Band 1840, and typical of Argentinian tango orchestras.

colloquial. A musical instrument consisting of a central bellows with notes sounded by buttons or keys, such as an accordion, melodeon, or…

A small diatonic accordion from Italy.