Melodeon vs Melodion - What's the difference?
melodeon | melodion |
(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
, 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. }}
As nouns the difference between melodeon and melodion
is that melodeon is a music hall while melodion is an accordion.melodeon
English
(wikipedia melodeon)Etymology 1
From (melo-) + (odeon).Etymology 2
From (etyl) , with change of ending.Noun
(en noun)citation