Celebrating the Accordion

 







Accordion, free-reed portable musical instrument, consisting of a treble casing with external piano-style keys or buttons and a bass casing (usually with buttons) attached to opposite sides of a hand-operated bellows. accordion. French: accordéon. German: Akkordeon or Handharmonika. Italian: armonica a manticino.

Today’s Doodle celebrates the Accordion, a box-shaped musical instrument that was invented in Germany in the 1800s and is now played around the world.