0 a musical instrument with a folding middle part that is played by pushing both ends together with the hands and pressing buttons --
Quality traditional concertinas require labour and high skill to produce, so prices can be high and waiting lists long.
He played concertos, concertinas, continuo sonatas and chamber music; both solos and orchestral parts.
The older layout is very similar to that used in the standard diatonic harmonica and also found in diatonic accordions and concertinas.
Barbed wire concertinas could be pre-prepared in the trenches and then deployed in no-man's-land relatively quickly under cover of darkness.
Tango orchestras come to consist of two violins, two concertinas, a piano, and a bass.
English concertinas, by contrast, sound the same note for any given button, irrespective of the direction of bellows travel.
Accordions and concertinas are also common, and other instruments are sometimes used.
Since the mid-1970s, hand-made accordion-reeded concertinas have become a high-quality cheaper alternative.
