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Encyclopedia > Chromatic button accordion
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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. The bass-side keyboard is usually the Stradella system or one of the various free-bass systems. Included among chromatic button accordions are the Russian bayan and Schrammel accordion. The term Squeezebox is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free-reed instruments. ... English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920 A concertina, like the various accordions, is a member of the free-reed family of instruments. ... The bandoneón is a free-reed instrument particularly popular in Argentina. ... A Chemnitzer concertina is a musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed category, sometimes called squeezeboxes (Ed. ... A button accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... Bayan is an accordion-like Russian musical instrument. ... The flutina is an early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, which are configured to have the tonic of the scale on the draw of the bellows. ... Garmon The word garmon (Russian: гармонь) literally means accordion, in Russian although it usually usually refers to a specific class of Russian accordions that have two rows of buttons on the right side, which play the notes of a diatonic scale, and at least two rows of buttons on the... Categories: Music stubs | Keyboard instruments | Free reed aerophones | Sets of free reeds ... A melodeon is a type of 19th century reed organ with a foot-pumped suction bellows. ... a piano accordion An accordion is a small portable free-reed wind instrument with a keyboard, the smallest representative of the organ family. ... The trikitixa or eskusoinu (hand sound) is a two-row Basque diatonic accordion, with right-hand rows keyed a fifth apart and twelve unisonoric bass buttons. ... Button Accordion is type of accordion which evolves from the older and more basic melodeon. ... }} Wiktionary has a definition of: Melody In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ... Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency. ... Bayan is an accordion-like Russian musical instrument. ...


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a piano accordion An accordion is a small portable free-reed wind instrument with a keyboard, the smallest representative of the organ family. ...

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Accordion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1824 words)
Accordion is the main instrument in the musette style of ballroom music in France (a style now largely out of fashion) and in the 1950s chanson singing, which has a revival in the form of neo-realism.
Chromatic button accordions are preferred by many classical music performers, since the treble keyboard with diagonally arranged buttons allows a greater range than a piano keyboard configuration.
In Scotland, the favoured diatonic accordion is, paradoxically, the instrument known as the British Chromatic Accordion.
Bayan (accordion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (284 words)
See the accordion article for features of the bayan that are common to all accordions.
The bayan (Russian: баян) is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia.
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.
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