melodeons

The walls of the bar in Cecil Sharp House, the north London headquarters of the English Folkdance and Song Society, are dense with history: morris dancers frozen in mid-leap, burly old men squeezing melodeons, rows of serious youths with postwar haircuts watching folk singers through a haze of cigarette smoke.

Martin Carthy and Tom Robinson's notes on a revolution 2010

Long before Canada was ever Canada — 1864 (it was called West Canada back then) brothers William and Robert Bell, with a staff of three, produced 25 four-legged 'Diploma' melodeons (a traditional English instrument).

Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2006

By 1881 nearly 200 employees produced annually over 1200 melodeons and reed organs, some of which were exported as far as Australia.

Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2006

Before that time, the wind from the bellows, in all melodeons, was forced through the reeds.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

Nor, how after having by her own exertions procured melodeons for the hospital chapels, she would play for the soldiers in their Sabbath worship, and bring her friends to make a choir to assist in their religious services.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

The organ had a rather sweet old tone, unlike the nasal and somewhat sanctimonious drone of most melodeons, and Felicia, hungry for the piano that had not been brought to Asquam, almost wished she could buy it.

The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

Reasoning from this experience that all great makers would act in the same way, I wrote to Boston to say I was sending the organ for repair or exchange, as seemed best to them, and asking their best terms, stating that by this parish there had been bought five melodeons of their make, including two baby organs.

A Woman Rice Planter 1914

I have been tortured by mechanical pianos and automatic melodeons, and I crave quiet.

Cobb's Bill-of-Fare Peter Newell 1910

He taught the weekly singing-school (then a feature of village life) in half a dozen neighboring towns, he played the violin and "called off" at dances, or evoked rich harmonies from church melodeons on Sundays.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

The men were buying buggies again, the women parlor melodeons, houses and homes were going up; in short, the entire farming population of the Middle West was being daily enriched.

The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903