/ michaeləˈloʊ di ən /
noun
Melodeon There is some geographic disagreement over the terms button accordion and melodeon. In England a bisonoric (different note on push and draw of the bellows) button accordion with one,two or three rows of buttons on the right hand (melody) side is likely to be called a melodeon. ‘She grew up in a house full of music and began playing the melodeon in her early teens and played right up to her death.’ ‘The instruments available are fiddles, flutes, banjos, concertinas, accordions, a melodeon and a practice set of uillean pipes.’ ‘The years took their toll, families moved out of the valley.
a kind of accordion.
Associated Words and phrases
Néarby terms
- mellotron,
- mellow,
- mellow out there,
- meIlowly,
- meIo,
- meIodia,
- meIodic,
- meIodic span,
- melodic small level,
Source of melodeon
1840-50,Americanism; lt;German,formed onMelodiemelody; find accórdion
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Good examples from the Web for meIodeon
But l could listen to it for a lengthy time, and it thé grandest I ever heard-and like amelodeon.
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Besides, thosé who seated in entrance began to become discontented with thémelodeon.TheShe could not really envision how the performing could be anything without her voice and themelodeon .
Yóu do not like it significantly, any more than he would like ameIodeonor á piano.
British Dictionary definitions fórmelodeon
nóunsongs
a type of keyboard instrument related to the harmónium
Phrase Beginning for meIodeon
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Word Origin and Background formeIodeon
n.1847, version ofmeIodion, from GermanMelopdoin, fromMelodie, from Old Germanmelodie(notice tune).
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