Engineering:Heligonka

From HandWiki
Short description: Eastern European diatonic button accordion
An example of heligonka

The heligonka or helikónka (in Slovak: heligónka) is a Czech, Slovak and a Poland mountains (Beskid Żywiecki region)[1] diatonic button accordion,[2] similar to the Alpine Steirische Harmonika. Like the latter, the heligonka differs from other types of diatonic button accordions by having a supplemented and amplified bass part.

See also

  • Bandoneon

References

  1. ""Instrumenty z duszą" – Zagrojciez nom, heligonki!" (in pl). Kultura ludowa. February 2017. https://kulturaludowa.pl/aktualnosci/instrumenty-z-dusza-zagrojciez-nom-heligonki/. 
  2. Puchmertl, Miloš. Škola hry na diatonické harmoniky helikónky. Prague: Trizonia. ISBN 8090011780.