The Accordion

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I first came into existance in 1822 in Germany. I was first patented in Vienna in 1829 by Cyril Demian (he is the one i will always call dad). I am the result of two harmonica-like reed instruments between a bellows. although i had appeared in a simmilar form centuries earlier in China, an instrument called the sheng. since then i have traveled all over the world and changed my appearance many times, i guess you cold say I evolved really. i began to have more buttons, and finally settled with a piano type arrangement on one side and a bunch of identical and overwhelming buttons on the other side. i enjoy being squeezed and having my buttons pressed. my exterior is usually consturcted of metal and mother of pearl with wooden insides and cloth like bellows. I make sounds by passing air over reeds sort of like a harmonica. the reeds vibrate, and make a sound, (and it makes me feel all tingly inside). many fat guys, and guys with the last name Yankovic have played me profesionally and actually been able to survive by doing so. And believe it or not i am the most popular instument in the world!