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Summary: Learn how accordions relate to wind instruments in this free video series that will show you how to identify the different parts of the accordion and how to play it correctly.
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Amanda Claire Amanda Claire is a lifelong artist, currently living in Austin, Texas, who specializes in all realms of unique crafts. read more
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Questions & AnswersAMANDA CLAIRE: Okay. So all accordions, whether you're talking about a piano accordion or a button accordion, maybe you've seen some accordions, they have rows of round buttons instead of piano keys on them; there are also various types of concertinas. A concertina is usually a hexagonal, sometimes octagonal shaped, small, little, squeezed box with little buttons on it. But what all these instruments have in common is they belong to a class of instruments we call free reed instruments. As opposed to other types of reed instruments like oboes and clarinets, bassoons, those instruments have reeds in them. But a free reed instrument is an instrument that's made up of reeds that is basically--in accordions and other things like a harmonica, what you have is a metal reed that sort of freely set within kind of a rectangular casing and it can freely vibrate at any time depending on whether there's air passing over it or not. So a harmonica is also a free reed instrument 'cause I mean it's filled with these little--in the case of the harmonica, it's brass reeds, and accordions can be filled with either brass reeds or steel reeds. And even an instrument like this, this is an electrical organ that plugs into the wall. It has a fan in it but they're-- kind of the more old-fashioned versions of this would have been a foot pump organ where you pump these pedals with your feet and run air through it. These are also free reed instruments because they all run on, again, sets of reeds that can vibrate freely within a little reed frame and once we take some of this apart, you'd be able to look at those in a little bit better detail.
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