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The Free-Reed Family: A Brief Description
Part Four: Western Instruments

1: The Accordion Family


A: Diatonic Accordion
2-row button accordion by Castagnari
(photo courtesy of Richard Morse)






B: Piano accordion (from the catalog of Bugari Armando)





C: Bayan or chromatic button accordion
(from the catalog of Victoria)



2: The Concertina and Bandoneon Family


A: English Concertina
(photograph from The Wheatstone English Concertina in Victorian England by Allan W. Atlas)





B: Bandoneon (performer: Astor Piazzolla)




3: The Harmonium and Reed Organ Family


Harmonium photo from The American Reed Organ by Robert F. Gellerman)





5: The Mouth Organ Family


Chromatic Harmonica
Hohner Three-Octave Model No. 270


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