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4 words match “ACCORDION”

ACCORDION n.
A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
ACCORDIONIST n.
A player on the accordion.
BELLOWS n.
th wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and havin…
CONCERTINA n.
A small musical imstrument 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.