手风琴属于活簧类乐器。它是借鉴中国笙簧发音原理而形成的。
十八世纪下半叶,中国笙传入欧洲,随即便在欧洲开始出现了一些手风琴的前身乐器,但它们大都未能成形便被淘汰了。真正用手拉的风琴是由德国人布期曼(Friedrdch Buschman,1805—1864 )在一八二二年创制的,后经奥地利人德米安(cyrillus Demian 1772—1847)在布斯曼琴的基础上,集当时手风琴的各种前身乐器之大成,成功地改良创制了世界上第一架被定名为Accordion的手风琴。直到今天,在欧洲和美洲仍然沿用Accordion这个名称。
手风琴的种类和规格很多,从结构、形态上看,大致可分为四类,即全音阶手风琴,半音阶手风琴,键钮式手风琴和键盘式手风琴。
Accordion belongs to live spring musical instrument. It is formed by using the principle of Sheng spring pronunciation in China for reference. In the second half of the 18th century, Chinese Sheng was introduced into Europe, and then some of the predecessor instruments of accordion began to appear in Europe, but most of them were eliminated before they could take shape. The organ, which was really played by hand, was created by German Friedrdch Buschman,1805-1864 in 1822 and later by Austrian (cyrillus Demian 1772 ≤ 1847. On the basis of the Busman organ, the accordion was successfully improved and created the world's first accordion named Accordion. To this day, the name Accordion is still used in Europe and America. There are many kinds and specifications of accordion. From the point of view of structure and shape, it can be roughly divided into four categories, namely, full-scale accordion, semitone accordion, keypad accordion and keyboard accordion.