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Diatonic vs Melodeon - What's the difference?

diatonic | melodeon |

As an adjective diatonic

is within the boundaries of a musical scale, most commonly the Western major or minor tonalities that have octaves of seven notes in a particular configuration.

As a noun melodeon is

a music hall.

diatonic

English

Adjective

(Diatonic and chromatic) (en adjective)
  • (music) Within the boundaries of a musical scale, most commonly the Western major or minor tonalities that have octaves of seven notes in a particular configuration

    • Antonyms

    * chromatic

    Anagrams

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    melodeon

    English

    (wikipedia melodeon)

    Etymology 1

    From (melo-) + (odeon).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, US) A music hall.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , with change of ending.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, musical instruments) A type of reed organ with a single keyboard.
  • (musical instruments) An accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 147:
  • *: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.
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 13, Derek Schofield, Francis Shergold, The Guardian citation
    • , passage=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. }}
    Hypernyms
    * button accordion * accordion
    Synonyms
    * diatonic button accordion