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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary
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melodeon
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synonyms: harmonium, pump organ, reed organ ???
tags: [music]
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Definition:basically a portable pipe organ
photo: By Niranjan Arminius (Harmonium_20151009) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 )]sound file: by sankalp under the Attribution License. (original clipped, converted and tempo increased to reduce file size)
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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...
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They had borrowed a melodeum—a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky,
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Our music consisted of the well-mixed strains of a melodeon which was a little asthmatic and apt to catch its breath where it ought to come out strong,
Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad
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