Button Accordion

One of the family of accordions which developed in the late nineteenth century, the button accordion is an adaptation of the older and more basic melodeon. It has an extra row of buttons, pitched a semi-tone above or below those of the melodeon.

Two notes can be sounded on one button by manipulating the bellows - giving the accordion greater articulation and economy of fingering.

Sharon playing the button accordion

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