Accordions, Concertinas, etc. [Free Reed Instruments] 26: Melodeon [2½ row - Saltarelle] (of Brian Peters)

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Accordions, Concertinas, etc. [Free Reed Instruments] 26: Melodeon [2½ row - Saltarelle] (of Brian Peters)
Accordions, Concertinas, etc. [Free Reed Instruments] 26: Melodeon [2½ row - Saltarelle] (of Brian Peters)

12th October 2023 at Brewhouse & Kitchen, London N5.

The Accordion is a bellows driven free reed instrument. From the 1820s onwards several different free reed instruments were invented across Europe (the first to use the name Accordion was patented in Vienna in 1829). They evolved into three main types of instrument: Diatonic, Chromatic and Piano Accordions (as well as Concertinas).

The Diatonic Accordion is operated by pressing buttons or keys which allows air to flow across the reeds (these are strips of brass or steel) which vibrate to produce sound. It is bisonoric (the buttons make one note when the bellows are compressed and another when they are expanded).

The Melodeon is the name used In England for the Diatonic Accordion (though the player may well be using an instrument manufactured in continental Europe and known there as an Accordion). A Melodeon has between 1 and 3 rows of button on the right hand side.

This instrument is a 1990s Saltarelle Connemara 3 melodeon in D/G (like all the other instruments from this French company it would have been made for them by an Italian maufacturer).

Melodeons are assigned the number 412.132 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs ), indicating:
4 = Aerophones. Sound is primarily produced by vibrating air. The instrument itself does not vibrate, and there are no vibrating strings or membranes.
41 = Free Aerophones. The vibrating air is not contained within the instrument.
412 = Interruptive Free Aerophones. The air-stream is interrupted periodically.
412.1 = Idiophonic Interruptive Aerophones or Reeds. The air-stream is directed against a lamella, setting it in periodic vibration to interrupt the stream intermittently.
412.13 = Free Reed Instruments. Instrument features a reed which vibrates within a closely fitting slot.
412.132 = Sets of Free Reads.

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