The word "accordion" is correct.
It is typically used to refer to a musical instrument that is played by compressing and expanding a bellows while pressing buttons or keys.
Example: "She played a beautiful melody on her accordion during the festival."
Alternatives: "Concertina" or "Harmonium".
And then there are things such as the 6ft 2in, 23.5-stone Atlas robot, which looks like it would be as happy shouting "Danger, Will Robinson!" as it would folding your skeleton up like a bony accordion and punting it over the nearest alp.
A Finnish Eurovision song called Reggae OK performed by a man who looks like all three of Rod, Jane and Freddy and also unforgivably contains an accordion solo shouldn't work.
Every performance was perfect from Tim McMullan's secretly heartbroken Europhile dandy to Susan Engel's ratty Russian princess with an illogical hatred of accordion players.
It tells of a redundant miner who heads off to Louisiana to follow his star playing the accordion.
Most usefully, since she was musical, she played the organ in chapel; and she cheered up the sick, as she nursed them, by serenading them on banjo and accordion.
She had mastered the accordion as a child, practising for long hours, hoping to win a place at a music college against the odds.
Richard Kirshenbaum, co-chairman of Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners (KBP), a New York-based agency, says the industry's "business model is more like an accordion.
"Things are calm, yes, but it feels like the calm before the storm," said a local music producer who specialises in narcocorridos – accordion-driven ballads often commissioned by traffickers to glorify their exploits.
In 2012 the last volume, SL-Z (ending with "zydeco", an accordion-heavy music from Louisiana), will finally appear.DARE is largely a snapshot of a bygone time.
Their costume, still worn by modern Argentine cowhands, included a chiripa girding the waist, a woolen poncho, and long, accordion-pleated trousers, called bombachas, gathered at the ankles and covering the tops of high leather boots.
Selena, who had performed from the age of nine with the family band, was a vivacious entertainer whose fluid voice celebrated the sound of Tejano, a fast-paced accordion-based Latin dance music that combined elements of jazz, country, and German polka and was rooted in South Texas.
