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(ə·kôr′dē ·ən) noun
A portable freereed musical wind-instrument with from 5 to 50 keys, the air for which is furnished by a bellows alternately pulled apart and pressed together by the performer. [<Ital. accordare accord, harmonize]
—ac·cor′di·on·ist noun
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