Although fiddle and singing are popular, it is not uncommon to hear an accordion (often locally referred to as asqueezebox).
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He won an accordion competition at the age of ten, but soon ditched thesqueezeboxfor rock and roll music.
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The lyrics use it as a metaphor to describe the experience of discomfort and unease in a social setting, likening it to being asqueezebox.
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Accompaniment may have been the music of a tin whistle or, from the 19th century, asqueezebox.
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Making excellent use of strings, tuba, andsqueezebox, they set a mood that echoes the movie's warmly idiosyncratic one.
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Squeezeboxis a slang term for accordions and related instruments.
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Thesqueezeboxand fiddle players normally carry the main burden of the tune, while attractive decorative effects are produced by supporting musicians with less powerful instruments.
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The instrument needed no tuning and was always ready to play, but the most ingenious thing about the early one-rowsqueezeboxwas that you couldn't play it really badly.
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