Crossword clues for melodeon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Melodeon \Me*lo"de*on\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? musical. See Melody, and cf. Odeon.]
(Mus.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.
A music hall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, variant of melodion, from German Melopdoin, from Melodie, from Old French melodie (see melody).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context historical US English) A music hall. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context historical musical instruments English) A type of reed organ with a single keyboard. 2 (context musical instruments English) An accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys.
Wikipedia
Melodeon may refer to:
- Melodeon (accordion), a type of button accordion
- Melodeon (organ), a type of 19th-century reed organ
- Melodeon (Boston, Massachusetts), a concert hall in 19th-century Boston
- Melodeon Records, a U.S. record label in the 1960s
- The Melodeon, a 1977 novel by Glendon Swarthout
The Melodeon (1839 - ca.1870) was a concert hall and performance space in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, located on Washington Street, near West Street. Musical concerts, lectures, sermons, conferences, visual displays, and popular entertainments occurred there.
Usage examples of "melodeon".
Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
Henry Lionel Leopold dear Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags.
So the choir was established and a large melodeon was secured from San Francisco from one of the music stores which had been established.
In the absence of a hall to sing in we gave our concert in the hotel dining-room with a melodeon for our only instrument.
Fortune favored us and between the joint efforts of these musical people we obtained a good sized Mason and Hamlin melodeon, which was duly installed into the choir of the church.
Lenfield watched the two men work the melodeon into the stated corner.
Kicking the doors of the melodeon shut with a bass-drum motion of his foot, Teach opened the top and dipped down into the center.
As often as an important improvement was introduced, the instrument changed its name, just as in our day the melodeon was improved into the harmonium, then into the organ-harmonium, and finally into the cabinet organ.
United States in that fine instrument before mentioned, which has grown from the melodeon into the cabinet organ.
For a second I thought Molly had heard, but the melodeon was blowing loud and Isaac Maple was shouting over it.
James, that could get into a melodeon through a mouse hole, more especially the big maltese you gave me.
They laughed and joked, and when supper was over, the dishes washed, and the lamps lighted, they gathered in the old-fashioned parlor, and Betty played on a melodeon that gave forth rather doleful sounds.
As for choir,--several of the singers of the church volunteered to sit together in the front side-seats, and as there was no place for an organ, they gallantly rallied round a melodeon,--or perhaps it is a cabinet organ,--a charming instrument, and, as everybody knows, entirely in keeping with the pillars, arches, and great spaces of a real Gothic edifice.
I need not say to those who have ever heard a melodeon, that there is nothing like it.
There are depths in music which the melodeon, even when it is called a cabinet organ, with a colored boy at the bellows, cannot sound.