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Diatonic button accordion
Musical instrument of the free-reed aerophone family / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody-side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons, with each row producing the notes of a single diatonic scale. The buttons on the bass-side keyboard are most commonly arranged in pairs, with one button of a pair sounding the fundamental of a chord and the other the corresponding major triad (or, sometimes, a minor triad).
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Classification | Free-reed aerophone |
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Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 412.132 (sets of free reeds) |
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Diatonic button accordions are popular in many countries, and used mainly for playing popular music and traditional folk music, and modern offshoots of these genres.