Accordion
The accordion's music carries a particular bittersweetness — cheer drawn through with longing. In dreams it can mark an amusement that lifts us out of sadness and lets us carry our burdens more lightly. The dream often speaks to the small pleasures that restore us, and the way music can ease what reflection cannot.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for accordion, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of hearing the music of an accordion, denotes that you will engage in amusement which will win you from sadness and retrospection. You will by this means be enabled to take up your burden more cheerfully.
For a young woman to dream that she is playing an accordion, portends that she will win her lover by some sad occurrence; but, notwithstanding which, the same will confer lasting happiness upon her union. If the accordion gets out of tune, she will be saddened by the illness or trouble of her lover.