Bellows Pillows

Dempsey and Firpo by George Bellows

The Cliff Dwellers by George Bellows

Club Night by George Bellows, 1907. Oil on canvas.

Album cover for "Miss January" by Stillfire Bellows

Album cover for the first full length album from Stillfire Bellows "The Long Morrow"

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds")[1] are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame), colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is an accordionist. The concertina , harmoneon and bandoneón are related. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor. The accordion is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds.

A Stag at Sharkey's by George Bellows, 1917. Lithograph.