The instrument bellowed reed links to a Wikidata page which calls it a squeezebox in English and a Handzuginstrument in German, general terms for accordion-like instruments. But there is also an instrument called the regal, which according to its disambiguation comment is also a bellowed reed instrument, but nothing like an accordion (it’s portable, but not portable and playable at the same time like an accordion is). The regal also isn’t a child instrument of bellowed reed.
So I guess my question is: shouldn’t the instrument bellowed reed be called squeezebox? Or is the Wikidata link wrong?
The person \ being \ animal you need is @CatQuest as they are the official Instrument Inserter of MusicBrainz. If we call their name then a response will appear…
Since this is a question about an instrument rather than a request, I’ll give this thread a little kick. Maybe @CatQuest just missed this thread the first time.
ok, I’ll admit, that made me chuckle.
I did see it last time, but the thing is I don’t really know what to respond here - is there something specific that is wanted?
I picked the term “bellowed reed” as I thought it was a tad more descriptive than “squeezebox”. This “instrument” is at a higher “conceptional level” than say, “piano accordion” or “German concertina” - something akin to “membranophone” ;)
As for the Regal, I’ve done a little change to it - but remember that some instruments are still not yet updated from the time they were moved to entities from the static tree they used to be.
This is still a work in progress - I have for example not long until I will release gamelan mini-version. But this of course means that other parts go untended, Noone more than me wishes I had 30 hours a day to do more work with 😸
And all the while people keep adding more instrument requests which also need to be dealt with. Eventually. When I have time. 😢
However once there *are`* tickets, it’s documented, and I can eventually get to them, that’s why like alex_s7 says, creating tickets is the best way to get any change done to instruments :)
If you just confirm that “bellowed reed” is supposed to be the same thing as a squeezebox, I can go on and translate accordingly. But if you intend to make bellowed reed a parent instrument of all reed instruments with a bellows attached somewhere, squeezeboxy or not, then I have to translate it differently.
I’m not asking for any changes, hence no tickets.
Let’s put a notice up somewhere asking musicians to stop making new instruments. After all, how many different things do people need to produce the same limited number of sounds anyway?
ah, so it was for translation you need it, now I see the reason for this!
sorry for not understanding that!
Alright. While I think I *do* need to research the regal a little bit more, I can say that “bellowed reed” is not supposed to be absolutely anything with bellows and reeds - what includes reed organs, but Instead the sort that is carried around (so accordions, concertinas, bandoneons and the like)
From what I understood of Regal, it is a predecessor, to bellowed reed instruments and reed organs both.
Should really have put a stop to all this ‘instruments’ nonsense years ago
I remember mine even did helicopter sounds, and helicopter isn’t even an instrument! Discussion over.
