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  • A Melodeon is a chromatic accordion and there are people who already make electric versions but they are a little too expensive for him.

    Hack a Day 2009

  • At the close of one convivial session Artemus went to a concert-hall, the "Melodeon," blacked his face, and delivered a speech.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • At the close of one convivial session Artemus went to a concert-hall, the "Melodeon," blacked his face, and delivered a speech.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Eight years ago, a Philadelphia manager opened a concert mall which he called the "Melodeon," at the old Chinese Assembly Rooms on Broadway.

    The Secrets of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • "'As early as half-past six o'clock the dense throng crowding into the" Melodeon "testified the universal interest felt in the nature and objects of the meeting, and at seven o'clock there was not a vacent seat in the Hall, and the standing places were all occupied.

    Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875

  • Ortiz has work in various publications including Bay Poetics and Poetics Journal, and has written two books, Geography of Parts (Melodeon) and Variously, not Then (forthcoming, Tuumba).

    PRESS MOI RELEASE 2010

  • Ortiz has work in various publications including Bay Poetics and Poetics Journal, and has written two books, Geography of Parts (Melodeon) and Variously, not Then (forthcoming, Tuumba).

    THAT'S SWEET 2010

  • Ortiz has work in various publications including Bay Poetics and Poetics Journal, and has written two books, Geography of Parts (Melodeon) and Variously, not Then (forthcoming, Tuumba).

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • Ortiz has work in various publications including Bay Poetics and Poetics Journal, and has written two books, Geography of Parts (Melodeon) and Variously, not Then (forthcoming, Tuumba).

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • They dined on beefsteaks and oysters at the fanciest restaurants; drank their way up and down Montgomery Street, hit the opera and concerts at the Bella Union Melodeon, ordered some handmade suits, and sailed on yachts on the sparkling bay.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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