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Chromatic button accordion; Classification: Free-reed aerophone: Playing range; Right-hand manual: The Russian bayan and chromatic button accordions have a much greater right-hand range in scientific pitch notation than an accordion with a piano keyboard: five octaves plus a minor third (written range = E2-G7, actual range = E1-D9, some have a 32 ft Register on the Treble to go even lower down ...
96-button Stradella bass layout on an accordion. C is in the middle of the root note row. The Stradella Bass System (sometimes called [1] standard bass) is a buttonboard layout equipped on the bass side of many accordions, which uses columns of buttons arranged in a circle of fifths; this places the principal major chords of a key (I, IV and V) in three adjacent columns.
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 .
A button accordion is a type of accordion on which the melody-side keyboard consists of a series of buttons. This differs from the piano accordion , which has piano-style keys. Erich von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs categorize it as a free reed aerophone in their classification of instruments , published in 1914. [ 1 ]
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 ...
The quint version and chromatic-button versions were available in "converter" (or "transformer") models with a control to switch from standard Stradella to free-bass. [7] A piano-like layout exists that mirrors the right-hand keyboard of a piano accordion, with round buttons laid out like piano keys.
A Steirische Harmonika. The Steirische Harmonika (Austrian German pronunciation: [ˈʃtaɪrɪʃɛ harˈmoːnika]) is a type of bisonoric diatonic button accordion important to the alpine folk music of Croatia (Hrvatsko zagorje), Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Austria, the German state of Bavaria, and the Italian South Tyrol.
Tula garmon (Russian: тульская гармонь, семиклапанка) was the first Russian accordion, which began to be manufactured since the 1830s. It had five or seven buttons on the right keyboard, and like in the most Western diatonic accordions it produced different sounds on pull and push.