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A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody -side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons, with each row producing the notes of a single diatonic scale .
The diatonic button accordion is the most popular type of button accordion, and appears in many cultures, especially in folk music. [3] One popular type of diatonic button accordion is the standard, one-row button accordion. This is tuned to a diatonic, 2.5 octave scale.
The Cajun accordion is generally defined as a single-row diatonic accordion, as compared to multiple-row instruments commonly used in Irish, Italian, polka, and other styles of music. The Cajun accordion has four reed ranks , i.e., four reeds for each melody button, and each reed bank is controlled by a corresponding stop or knob on the top of ...
The Schwyzerörgeli is a type of diatonic button accordion used in Swiss folk music. The name derives from the town/canton of Schwyz where it was developed. Örgeli is the diminutive form of the word Orgel (organ). Outside of Switzerland the instrument is not well known and is hard to find.
Khromka (Russian: хро́мка, khromka) is a type of Russian garmon (unisonoric diatonic button accordion). It is the most widespread variant in Russia and in the former USSR . Nearly all Russian garmons made since the mid of the 20th century are khromkas.
The heligonka or helikónka (in Slovak: heligónka) is a Czech, Slovak and a Polish Goral [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.
Accordion, chromatic button accordion, diatonic button accordion, piano accordion, stradella bass system, free-bass system, accordion reed ranks and switches The bayan (Russian: бая́н , IPA: [bɐˈjan] ) is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in the Russian Empire in the early 20th century and named after the 11th-century bard ...
One of his models, had single notes and two rows of keys: first row the diatonic scale, the second row played the accidentals. The accordion tutor published in the Year of 1833 by Adolph Müller (Austrian National Bibliotheca) has an example [1] which includes pictures and descriptions of many different models. A music journal of Paris, printed ...