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Thread #41163   Message #1072936
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
15-Dec-03 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: What are other names for the accordion?
Subject: RE: What are other names for the accordion?
Addition to MudGuard's post:
Quetschn (Bavarian) is short for germ. Quetschkommode, composition of quetschen v/t to squeeze, to squash, to press and Kommode n. f. chest of drawers, Am. bureau - an uppity version of the simple box. Reminds me of the fifteen men on the dead man's chest. It's time for drink and the devil to do for them, too, if they are still squeezing their seaman's piano.

Wilfried
(enforced drill with the accordeon in my youth)