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Friedrich Buschmann invents the accordion in 1821, …

Years: 1821 - 1821

Friedrich Buschmann invents the accordion in 1821, supplying the bellows-powered wind instrument with right-hand buttons for producing treble pitches.

The German musical instrument maker also invents the harmonica, based on the Chinese sheng, a bowl-based mouth organ dating from 1100 BCE that had arrived in Vienna in the mid-seventeenth century.