Accordion The accordion is the main instrument of the musette style of ballroom music in France (a style largely now out of fashion) and of the fifties chanson singing.
Although rarely seen in the cities, the accordion is still very popular in many country regions, and is often used by the local Orchestre du bal.
In the USA it was an instrument that was widely used during their ‘Vaudeville’ period, in Holland it is played as an accompaniment to ‘Clog dancing’, and also enjoyed a certain popularity in Russia at the turn of the century.
There are several different types of button accordions - the Diatonic, the Chromatic, plus the many complex hybrids, and curiosities.
In addition the bass systems are a real science in themselves, with many configurations.
Other instruments from the same family are the Concertina, the Bandeoneon and the Flutina, which are all squeezeboxes.

The Bombarde A folk musical instrument from Brittany and Cornwall in the UK, that is a cross between an oboe and a conical- bored pipe chanter (the part of the bagpipe upon which the player creates the melody).The bombarde is blown by the mouth with the reed is held between the lips. Typically pitched in B flat, it plays a diatonic scale over two octaves. It produces a strident, powerful tone and is used in most Bagads, the Breton version of British pipe bands.
It was traditionally used in a duet with the biniou (bagpipes) for Breton folk dancing, but requires so much breath that it cannot be used for very long periods by the (talabarder) bombard player.

Hurdy Gurdy The hurdy gurdy or vielle-a-roue (fiddle with a wheel) is a cross between a violin and a piano accordion. It is made up of a curved, oval body, a set of keys and a curved handle that is turned and 

connected to a wheel that bows the strings that are stopped by the keys.
There is a moveable bridge, a variable number of drone strings and hidden sympathetic strings, all of which can also effect the sound, which sounds something like bagpipes. Simpler forms of the hurdy gurdy are also found in Spain, Hungary, and Russia

The country that we will be doing on is Italy, Venice. We will be presenting to you the culture of the music as people row their gondoliers in Venice.

These men (and now women,too) who tend the black flat bottomed boats called gondolas that are the main transport through the waterways of Venice are called gondoliers . They sing barcaroles to keep tempo for their rowing. The profession has been around since the 11th century.

The music is made as a tradition as they row their boat so as to be able to keep their tempo when rowing. 

 

Those people are called gondoliers (in italian gondolieri) because they work on boats called gondolas (gondole in italian). They are typical oarsmen of the city of Venice.