a small, square concertina or accordion with buttons instead of a keyboard, used especially in Latin America for tango music.
from Spanish, from German Bandonion, from Heinrich Band, its inventor (dictionary.com)
"When the dentist declared himself not averse to a month in Buenos Aires,* he was amenable to the notion of such a trip - that is, tractable, open to suggestion, advice.
* A pronouncement he would live to regret: later in Brazil, during Carnival, the robot ran off with a Deux Chevaux mechanic and a bandeonist from Bahia, and the dentist wandered Rio from one bateria to another in search of his partner, whose costume-swapping metamorphoses further confounded the dentist's quest."
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
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