(n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calculated results indicate that the experimentally observed low-frequency modes at 22 cm-1 for the A-form octanucleotide (d[CCCCGGGG]) and at 18 cm-1 for the B-form dodecanucleotide (d[CGCAA ATTTGCG]) may result from accordion-like motions, while those observed at 12 cm-1 and 15 cm-1 may result from combinations of twist-like oscillations excited in the intact segments of B- and A-DNA's, respectively.
(2) Ventilation was measured with a spirometer or with a pneumatic thoracic transducer: an accordion shaped balloon, strapped around the thorax.
(3) "Tejano" is Spanish for "Texan" while "Conjunto" means "group" or "ensemble", and the music made across this festival focuses on the accordion as the voice of cultural expression and Tejano pride.
(4) The band wanted to talk about their adventurous musical policy more than their lyrics (they mix brassy banda styles with accordion-based norteno ballads) but agreed that narcocorrido was crucial for their success.
(5) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.
(6) The defining sound of forró is in the accordion, an instrument favoured the world over by travellers and street musicians.
(7) The musician's website says he has "defined" norteño music, which is known for its use of the accordion and bajo sexto.
(8) Founded in 1919, shortly after the first world war, Maugein employed around 300 workers by 1939 and was producing hundreds of accordions every year.
(9) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(10) On a stage in a country town square, the accordion band struck up Edith Piaf's bitter-sweet love song, La Vie en Rose .
(11) Sertanejo – Brazilian country music – is king in this area, yet its inhabitants are seeking solace from accordion-led country-pop with power-rock trio Macaco Bong.
(12) When you're waiting for the arrival of the procession in the strikingly silent environs of the local rice fields, it acts as a kind of siren, heralding the approach of The Run with the aid of violins, acoustic guitars and the inevitable accordions.
(13) Alys North choreographed a dance performed by 70 young people in Durham Market Place this lunchtime, and says events are still on in the square until 3pm - there are circus performers, accordion players and female comedians, alongside campaigners who have been talking about women’s issues, including services for rape survivors, the trafficking of women, sexism in popular music and gender stereotypes in the toy market.
(14) The phase-3 and phase-4 block as well as the accordion effect in the Kent bundle were similar to the same phenomena previously described in patients with diseased or in dogs with injured intraventricular conducting fascicles.
(15) The Maugein factory makes the accordions from scratch and had a turnover of €800,000 in 2012.
(16) Fortaleza has a very strong local roots music scene, dominated by the style forró, a stripped down but upbeat type of dance music, usually played by a trio featuring accordion, triangle and zambua (bass drum).
(17) The music marked the return of the accordion to French politics, not seen since the faux-rustic former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing played it in the 1970s – an important message about Hollande's rural, Mr Normal image.
(18) I took to hugging strangers for emotional support during Marz and by the time his final song, Queen of Denmark, finished, I was so overwhelmed I spent the next hour sitting in the Green Fields listening to hippies playing the accordion.
(19) Perla had a tiny, four-string pink guitar that looked like a toy, her sisters Rozika and Franziska played on quarter-sized violins, Frieda struck on the cimbalom, Micki played both a half-sized cello and accordion, while the energetic Elizabeth took on the drums.
(20) Often cryptic, sometimes boring, Carax nevertheless has a showman's touch, and though his films deal with navel-gazing issues – blocked artists are a recurring motif – it's hard to think of another film-maker whose work features hair-eating leprechauns, accordion blues solos and Kylie Minogue.
Accordionist
Definition:
(n.) A player on the accordion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accordionist and the drummer veer off on wild creative tangents, while the triangle player, a keystone in forró music and dance, holds everything together.
(2) An accordionist and tambourine player, hired every year by this slowly dwindling circle of elderly friends, play as we sit at a long table under the arches of the postwar town centre.
(3) Ayala's lawyer said the accordionist and his band, Los Bravos del Norte, did not know their clients were suspected members of the Beltran Leyva cartel.
(4) After far too long spent quizzing 20-something herberts, one of the most fascinating music interviews I ever did was with two elderly Louisianans, Luderin Darbone, 91, and accordionist 93 year-old Edwin Duhon , who formed their Cajun band The Hackberry Ramblers in 1932, and got their first and only Grammy nomination in 1997.
(5) He and his then partner Valérier Trierweiler were serenaded by an accordionist playing La Vie en Rose.
(6) As the new president and his then partner, Valérie Trierweiler, were serenaded on the steps of Tulle's 12th-century cathedral by an accordionist playing La Vie en Rose, it was unthinkable that the opposition right could gain a significant foothold here.
(7) At the next table, there are two musicians - an accordionist named Margarito Florez, and his brother, Inez, who idly strums a guitar as we talk.
(8) The accordionist, songwriter and cowboy hat enthusiast Ramón Ayala and his band were performing at a house in a gated community of mansions outside the mountain town of Tepoztlán, in Mexico , when soldiers raided the building.
(9) The next morning I meet Jorge Hernandez, the band's lead singer and accordionist, who formed the band in 1968 with two younger brothers, a cousin and a friend.
(10) Although White's project is technically for a single, not an album, he will take over the accordionists' hard-won title, Rolling Stone reported .
(11) Violinist Luderin Darbone, 91, and accordionist Edwin Duhon, 93, form the two-man core of The Hackberry Ramblers, formed in the Louisiana town of the same name in 1932, and still - after the coming-and-going of around 40 members - a working concern.