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piano accordion

American  

noun

  1. accordion.


piano accordion British  

noun

  1. an accordion in which the right hand plays a piano-like keyboard See accordion

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of piano accordion

First recorded in 1855–60

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The country’s first accordion superstar was Guido Deiro, who played in Seattle saloons before being hired to demonstrate the newfangled piano accordion at the city’s Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2022

“I’m doing the orchestration: drums, piano, accordion, guitar, banjo, mandolin and tuba,” Schmidt says.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2017

Ramunni strides to another corner of the museum to point at a box-like Hohner piano accordion.

From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2015

It's early rock ’n’ roll of the rockabilly kind, including piano, accordion, saxophone and steel guitar.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2013

Bob Miller's selected piano accordion solos. © 5Apr35; AA171942.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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