Melodeon

The scene to be represented is a parlor furnished with sofa, chairs, carpet, pictures, table, and a melodeon, which is placed on the side of the stage. ❋ James H. Head (N/A)

Dancing was tabooed, but a "melodeon" was carted to the dock and hymns were sung. ❋ Frederick Br��ckbauer (N/A)

Presently the profound stillness was broken by the harmonium -- "melodeon" is, I believe, the precise name of the instrument -- softly sounding a bar of music. ❋ Unknown (1884)

For their second set, they were in novelty mode, tackling Abba, Madness, a-ha and the Carpenters with impressive crooning from Paul Sartin on Close to You, and they ended with melodeon-backed dance tunes, with furious vocals and fiddle-work from Jon Boden on New York Girls. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The single fellows had no such doubts (much); beneath me a bunch in slouch hats and jeans were passing the jug around boisterously, and one with a melodeon was striking up: ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

Except for the fiddle at a dance or a melodeon at home, frontier music, in its cultural aspects, was largely confined to amateur bands with plenty of oompah. ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)

Ben Ivitsky (viola and guitar), John Boden (fiddle and double bass), and John Spiers (melodeon) complement Carthy's vocals and fiddle perfectly, and the result is Carthy's strongest solo record to date. ❋ Smg58 (2006)

He evoked the high pulpit with the red plush pillow for the Bible, the stiff pews, the black contribution purses attached to long poles, “the wheezy melodeon in the gallery-front” and the “old maid behind it in severe simplicity of dress,” the choir that raved and roared around its “victim” the hymn, “& pulled & hauled & flayed it.” ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

He later entertainingly disgorged his visual and aural memories of it all—the high pulpit with the red plush pillow for the Bible, the stiff wooden pews, the “melodeon,” or primitive organ; the caterwauling choir, the dozing oldsters, and his scattered fellow captives, the other boys, their spitballs at the ready, grateful for the diversion of a dog sitting down on the stinging warhead of a pinch bug—and getting up again. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Lionel Leopold dear Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And she ran out of the room and slammed the door behind her so hard that her apple was jarred off the melodeon and rolled unheeded across the floor. ❋ Carol Ryrie Brink (2000)

“No,” Mother said, her hands straying softly over the tiny keyboard of the melodeon. ❋ Carol Ryrie Brink (2000)

Clara began to turn the pages of the songbook on the melodeon. ❋ Carol Ryrie Brink (2000)

As soon as the supper things were cleared away, Mother had sat down at the melodeon; and Father and the children had all stood or sat around her to sing. ❋ Carol Ryrie Brink (2000)