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accordion

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Summary

accordion is a type of musical instrument[1]. accordion ranks in the top 3% of type of musical instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,688 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: squeezebox[3], set of free reeds[4]
  • Commons category: Accordions[5]
  • Unicode character: 🪗[6]
  • Country of origin: France[7]
  • Inception: 1829[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Accordion[9]
  • Commons gallery: Accordion[10]
  • Described at URL: https://mondes.occitanica.eu/explorer/les-arts/les-instruments/accordeon[11], https://mondes.occitanica.eu/oc/explorar/arts/los-instruments/acordeon[12]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[13], Riemann's Music Dictionary[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17], The New Student's Reference Work[18], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[19]
  • Used by: accordionist[20]
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 412.132[21], 412.132-62-8[22]
  • Indigenous to: Ossau Valley[23], Pau[24]
  • Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02672831-n[25]
  • Intangible cultural heritage status: Mondes d’Occitanica, Portail occitan du PCI[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]

Why It Matters

accordion has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] accordion is known by 103 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Alan Menken Alexey Vorobyov Assaf Talmudi Benny Andersson Billy Joel Billy Preston Bourvil Brendon Urie Connie Francis Daniel Handler Dieter Kohl Dima Bilan France Francis Lai Gabbanelli Accordions Georges Braque Gigi Proietti Grace Jones Italo-American Accordion Company Joe Dassin Julieta Venegas Keith Emerson Khaled Kikki Danielsson Lead Belly Lisa Gerrard Loreena McKennitt Michel Teló Natalia Tena Norodom Sihanouk

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Mondes d’Occitanica, Portail occitan du PCI. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Mondes d’Occitanica, Portail occitan du PCI. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . mimo-db.eu. mimo-db.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Mondes d’Occitanica, Portail occitan du PCI. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Mondes d’Occitanica, Portail occitan du PCI. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . mondes.occitanica.eu. Retrieved . mondes.occitanica.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → accordion
    Verbaalpina id → C4810
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C4810, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3x7lF2
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0325525-akordeon
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0325525-akordeon, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
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