melodion

Getty Images Mr. Alexander performed on a Hammond 44 melodion last summer at the Jazz à Vienne Festival in Vienne, France.

Jazz's Jamaican Envoy Will Friedwald 2011

There's your Dad's old chair, and the dresser and the melodion.

The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

A tall scale, a sour glass, a tight stretch, an even table, a celebrated circus and a melodion, these and many more mistakes have no attributes, they are careless.

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories Gertrude Stein 1910

The ladies of the committee ranged themselves so as to make a background of solemn benevolence on the platform, in the middle of which stood a primeval melodion with two octaves and four stops.

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

I attacked the squeaky melodion, pushed down a pedal, pulled out the "vox humana" stop -- the most harmless one of the melodion, but which gave out a supernaturally hoarse sound -- I struck the chord, and standing up I began.

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

Thus encouraged, I started off again in the melancholy wake of the melodion.

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

He early learned to play upon keyed instruments, the melodion, the piano, and the organ, the latter being his favorite.

Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885

The saxophone returns with a plaintive melody, not unlike a melodion floating over the thick aural smoke of a dub reggae classic.

NPR Topics: News 2011

The Bairns just gets better and better with tracks like "Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk" with its blowsy vocals of against a curtain of richly worked piano by Ms. O'Hooley and fiddle by Ms. Keegan and the spare "I Wish" with its eerie melodion drone by Julian Sutton.

World Music Central 2009

The Bairns just gets better and better with tracks like "Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk" with its blowsy vocals of against a curtain of richly worked piano by Ms. O'Hooley and fiddle by Ms. Keegan and the spare "I Wish" with its eerie melodion drone by Julian Sutton.

World Music Central 2009