accordion

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I asked Judy Tenuta where her accordion was and she replied, "I left it at the Betty Ford Clinic."

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  1. noun A portable wind instrument with a small keyboard and free metal reeds that sound when air is forced past them by pleated bellows operated by the player.
  2. adjective Having folds or bends like the bellows of an accordion: accordion pleats; accordion blinds.

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  • Among common misconceptions of the accordion is the assumption that the instrument can only be used to play polkas. —  News Review - Top Stories
  • In the U.S., the downturn of the accordion was mostly due to the electric guitar's popularity with youths for the last several generations.
  • Unfortunately, I think the accordion is being used by today's artists as more of a novelty than a staple.
  • But I'm pretty sure that all these folks that picked up the accordion, as I did, for a lark, a joke, a song or two, have found, as I did, that they couldn't put it down.
  • Elsewhere Parkins uses her processed accordion, an instrument the timbre and effect of which is barely recognizable among the clicks and nearly sterile screes of data breakdown. —  Brainwashed
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  1. German Akkordion, from Akkord, chord, from French accord, harmony, from Old French acorder, to accord, from Medieval Latin accordāre, to bring into agreement; see accord.

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  1. Also spelled accordeon, from French accordeon, from accorder, be in harmony, accord.
 

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