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Meanings of squeeze box in English

Russian
ручные гармоники
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Aerophone instrument.

        Related terms
        ручные гармоники
        Portuguese
        gaita
        Catalan
        acordió
        Spanish
        acordeón

        A portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.

              gaita
              Synonyms
              Examples for "accordion"
              Examples for "accordion"
              1
              Until recent years, every night also featured Brennan himself on the accordion.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Baal. He pointed to it on the accordion-folded length of computer paper.
              Phantoms
              3
              The sound of an accordion rose above the muffled moaning of fog-whistles.
              The Blood Red Dawn
              4
              I know she waits for me in the Library with the accordion.
              Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
              5
              I was sweltering inside the open accordion door of a phone booth.
              Lit: a memoir
              1
              Then you have a piano accordion.
              The new yorker
              2
              Classes will also be provided in the button accordion, the piano accordion, bodhran playing, traditional singing, harp and banjo.
              The Irish Times
              3
              This was the most French thing I've seen since Raymond Blanc covered a piano accordion in béarnaise sauce while torturing a goose.
              The Irish Times
              4
              We learn all about the piano accordion, and hear some live music from player and music teacher Lionel Reeekie Photo: Copyright by MaxPixel
              Radio NZ
              5
              But this time around the band have mustered contributions from Alan Kelly on piano accordion and John Joe Kelly on bodhrán, among others.
              The Irish Times

              A musical instrument, such as the accordion and the concertina, that produces sound by compressing and decompressing a flexible bag.

                    Usage of squeeze box in English
                    1
                    The squeeze box and camera bag have accompanied him everywhere - to wakes, weddings, pubs and parties.
                    The Irish Times
                    2
                    It used to be called the squeeze box, and was inspired by an old Chinese instrument, the Cheng.
                    Radio NZ
                    3
                    Michael Cunningham plays the squeeze box during a Fuaim Chonnamara traditional Irish music and dance show in Ballinasloe, Ireland, March 2010.
                    Reuters
                    4
                    Etta Slater had short legs and no visible neck, as if at birth someone had compressed her like the squeeze box of an accordion.
                    Iron lace
                    5
                    The mirrored walls, abacus, squeeze box and old 5,000 zloty notes become less incongruous after an hour or so, the Russian cuckoo clock positively fascinating.
                    The Guardian
                    6
                    Visit Website Hans Johnstone follows the first pitch of the "Black Chimney" on Squeeze Box.
                    Climbing Magazine
                    7
                    Squeeze Box (IV M7 A0) takes a line splitting a steep granite buttress between Shea's Chute and the Alex Lowe Memorial Route.
                    Climbing Magazine
                    Translations for squeeze box
                    Catalan
                    acordió
                    Spanish
                    acordeón