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| accordion |
a musical instrument with a keyboard that is small enough to carry. An accordion is played by pressing the keys and squeezing the bellows to force air through metal reeds. |
| bagpipe |
(often pl.) a musical instrument, played esp. in Scotland, consisting of a double-reed melody pipe and one or more drone pipes that protrude from a flexible leather bag that is inflated through a blowpipe by the breath or by bellows. The pipes are traditionally made of wood. |
| bellows |
(used with a singular or plural verb) a bag that can be expanded to draw air in and squeezed to force air out. Bellows are used to blow air on a fire or produce sound on a musical instrument. |
| concertina |
a small musical instrument similar to an accordion but with buttons for keys and hexagonal bellows. |
| harmonium |
a small keyboard organ that produces tones when air from a pedal-operated bellows is drawn through metal reeds. |
| melodeon |
a small keyboard organ similar to the harmonium in which a bellows, operated by pedals, causes air to be drawn through metal reeds. |
| musette |
a small French bagpipe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that is sounded by means of air supplied from a bellows. [1/2 definitions] |
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