0 a box-shaped musical instrument consisting of a folded central part with a keyboard, played by pushing the two ends towards each other -- 手風琴
It consists of jokes, accordion playing, and wordless singing.
But with the institutionalisation of vallenato in the music industry and in festivals, the roles of singer and accordion player were divided between two musicians.
However, the accordion player was strong and hung on to his instrument, which was nearly rent in two.
The scoring of this work is mainly for woodwind and brass, including euphonium plus harp, accordion, piano doubling synthesiser, percussion and electric guitar.
Moreover, the accordion becomes the signifying sonority of a sung genre whose lyrical and narrative characteristics come to represent one of its highest aesthetic values.
Gramophone now also recorded an increasing number of comic singers and accordion players.
Squeezing an accordion or bagpipe bellows is equivalent in this sense to blowing into the instrument.
In version 3, the first section is marked piano and features a static dissonant accompaniment for two flutes, accordion and piano.