accordion
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The dynamic singer delivered every lyric with his whole body as he frenetically tapped the buttons of his brightly colored accordion, doing his best to make the squeezebox sound like an electric guitar.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
It's like a wing with a flexible, corrugated structure within it – something like an accordion – that allows said wing to fold down quickly, or flex with ease.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
He continued to play the accordion until he was 75.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
On “Jaundice,” a stomping upbeat jig with accordion and saxophone reflecting Mr. Ellis’s interest in older folk forms, each drum hit bursts out of the speakers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
We were dancing to the accordion and some one was playing the banjo.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
