The accordion evokes folk festivals, French street music, or polka — a niche, slightly whimsical emoji rarely used for its literal meaning and more often dropped into jokes about 'old-timey' or European vibes. Added in 2020 (Unicode 13), it filled a long-standing gap for a genuinely popular folk instrument that had no emoji representation.
Keywords: accordion, box, concertina, instrument, music, squeeze, squeezebox