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The bayan (Russian: баян) is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century and named after Boyan. It differs from western chromatic button accordions in some details of construction: A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged so that the pitch increases diagonally along and across the rows. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Boyan (Bulgarian language: Боян, Macedonian language: Боjан) is a male given name. ...

• Reeds are broader and rectangular (rather than trapezoidal).
• Reeds are often attached in large groups to a common plate (rather than in pairs); the plates are screwed to the reed block (rather than attached with wax).
• The melody-side keyboard is attached near the middle of the body (rather than at the rear).
• Reeds are generally not tuned with tremolo.
• Register switches may be operated with the chin on some larger models.
• The diminished seventh chord row is shifted, so that the diminished seventh G chord is where one would expect the diminished seventh C chord in the Stradella bass system.
• Converter switches to go from standard pre-set chords to free bass (individual bass notes) are common on the larger instruments.
• Newer instruments may feature a register, where every tone played actually produces a perfect fifth.

The differences in internal construction give the bayan a different tone color from western instruments, especially the bass has a much fuller sound. Because of their range and purity of tone, bayans are often the instrument of choice for accordion virtuosi who perform classical and contemporary classical music. The composer Sofia Gubaidulina wrote several pieces for bayan and stringed instruments. A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to make music. ... In geometry, a rectangle is defined as a quadrilateral where all four of its angles are right angles. ... A trapezoid (in North America) or trapezium (in Britain and elsewhere) is a quadrilateral two of whose sides are parallel to each other. ... Screws come in a variety of shapes and sizes for different purposes. ... candle wax This page is about the substance. ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The layout of a typical musical keyboard A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds. ... Tremolo is a musical term with two meanings: A rapid repetition of the same note, a rapid variation in the amplitude of a single note, or an alternation between two or more notes. ... In music, a register is the relative height or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument or group of instruments. ... This article is about the instrument as a whole. ... The perfect fifth or diapente is one of three musical intervals that span five diatonic scale degrees; the others being the diminished fifth, which is one semitone smaller, and the augmented fifth, which is one semitone larger. ... In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note which distinguishes different types of musical instrument. ... Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency or range. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. ... Sofia Gubaidulina in Sortavala 1981 Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian София Асгатовна Губайдулина) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian-Tatar composer of deeply religious music. ...

In the modern Russian jargon "bayan" often means a stale joke, old news or plagiarism. The origin is an infamous joke: yesterday we buried my mother-in-law... and have torn down two bayans. "Bayan" became a popular Russian internet slang after someone posted this joke several times in one forum. Now a user who posts old news, pictures or jokes is invariably labeled as "bayanist" and sometimes "awarded" with a photoshop-made picture containing an image of bayan. Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as ones own original work. ...

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