melodeon
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English
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[edit]From French mélodium, with change of ending.
Noun
[edit]melodeon (plural melodeons)
- (historical, music) A type of reed organ with a single keyboard.
- 1909, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Keziah Coffin[1]:
- The thin, nearsighted young woman who had been humped over the keyboard of the melodeon, straightened up. The worshipers relaxed a little and began to look about.
- (music) An accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 147:
- But Chae said it didn't matter, he'd bring his melodeon and Long Rob his fiddle; and faith! if that didn't content the folk they were looking for a church parade of the Gordons, not a wedding.
- 2009 January 13, Derek Schofield, “Francis Shergold”, in The Guardian[2]:
- His brother, Roy, joined him as a dancer - their two-man jigs were much admired - and his nephew, Jamie Wheeler, has become the side's principal musician, on melodeon and fiddle.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]melodeon (plural melodeons)
- (historical, US) A music hall.
Further reading
[edit]pump organ § Melodeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
diatonic button accordion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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