noun
melodeon
Melodeon (noun) means a kind of reed organ that has a single keyboard.
noun
1
A kind of reed organ that has a single keyboard.
"The thin, nearsighted young woman who had been humped over the keyboard of the melodeon, straightened up. The worshipers relaxed a little and began to look about."
— Joseph C. Lincoln (1909)
2
A type of accordion whose melody keyboard only plays notes from a small number of diatonic scales.
"His brother, Roy, joined him as a dancer - their two-man jigs were much admired - and his nephew, Jamie Wheeler, has become the side's principal musician, on melodeon and fiddle."
— Derek Schofield, Francis Shergold (2009)
"But Chae said it didn't matter, he'd bring his melodeon and Long Rob his fiddle; and faith! if that didn't content the folk they were looking for a church parade of the Gordons, not a wedding."
— Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair) (1932)
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Etymology
Comes from French mélodium, with its ending altered.
Rhymes for melodeon
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What is the meaning of melodeon?
"melodeon" (noun) means a kind of reed organ that has a single keyboard.
What are the different meanings of melodeon?
"melodeon" has 2 main meanings: 1. A kind of reed organ that has a single keyboard; 2. A type of accordion whose melody keyboard only plays notes from a small number of diatonic scales.
