Squeezebox

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Squeezebox

The term Squeezebox (also Squeeze box, Squeeze-box) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument

Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
of the general class of hand-held bellows

Bellows

A bellows is a device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. Basically, a bellows is a deformable container which has an outlet nozzle....
-driven free reed aerophone

Free reed aerophone

A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument where sound is produced as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame. Air pressure is typically generated by breath or with a bellows....
s such as the accordion

Accordion

The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox....
or concertina

Concertina

A concertina is a Free-reed instrument musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it....
, including the India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
n version of the Harmonium

Harmonium

A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ or pipe organ. Sound is produced by air, supplied by foot-operated or hand-operated bellows, being blown through sets of Free reed aerophone, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion....
, a small, portable, hand-held instrument often used in South Asian and Middle Eastern music. The term is so applied because such instruments are generally in the shape of a rectangular prism

Cuboid

In geometry, a cuboid is a solid figure bounded by six faces, forming a convex polyhedron. There are two competing and incompatible definitions of a cuboid in the mathematical literature....
or box

Box

Box describes a variety of containers and receptacles. When no specific shape is described, a typical Rectangle box may be expected. Nevertheless, a box may have a horizontal cross section that is square , elongated, circle or oval; sloped or domed top surfaces, or non-vertical sides....
, and the bellows is operated by squeezing in and drawing out.

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