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- This article is about the instrument as a whole. For a full description of the sound-producing mechanism, see Free reed aerophone.
An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes.
The accordion is played by compression and expansion of a bellows, which generates air flow across reeds; a keyboard controls which reeds receive air flow and therefore the tones produced.
Physical description
Modern accordions consist of a body in two parts, each generally rectangular in shape, separated by a bellow. On each part of the body is a keyboard containing buttons, levers or piano-style keys. When pressed, the buttons travel in a direction perpendicular to the motion of the bellows (towards the performer). Most, but not all modern accordions also have buttons capable of producing entire chords. More on [ Accordion ]
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