button accordion

[accordian]

I know very little about
the button,stradella accordion
is there any way the rigth hand is
organised or is it all random and just
remembering where everything is?

 

[debra]

Its called chromatic because the layout is chromatic rather than random. It would be very hard to learn if it were random.
Even on a traditional bandoneon which is diatonic and not chromatic there is some system to it. (There are several different layouts in fact.) I dont know of any instrument where buttons are just laid out randomly. The only case where I saw something that looked quite random was the placement of chin switches on the Pigini P39 or C39 bass accordion... until I asked for these switches to be in the same order as the regular switches, which may have woken them up. But note buttons I have never seen arranged randomly.
If you dont know what the chromatic layout is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_button_accordion

 

[Morne]

Its called chromatic because the layout is chromatic rather than random. It would be very hard to learn if it were random.

Having it random would certainly make playing some modern pieces easier.

 

[accordian]

Its called chromatic because the layout is chromatic rather than random. It would be very hard to learn if it were random.
Even on a traditional bandoneon which is diatonic and not chromatic there is some system to it. (There are several different layouts in fact.) I dont know of any instrument where buttons are just laid out randomly. The only case where I saw something that looked quite random was the placement of chin switches on the Pigini P39 or C39 bass accordion... until I asked for these switches to be in the same order as the regular switches, which may have woken them up. But note buttons I have never seen arranged randomly.
If you dont know what the chromatic layout is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_button_accordion

ah I see

 

[accordian]

Its called chromatic because the layout is chromatic rather than random. It would be very hard to learn if it were random.

Having it random would certainly make playing some modern pieces easier.

how comes?

 

[debra]

Its called chromatic because the layout is chromatic rather than random. It would be very hard to learn if it were random.

Having it random would certainly make playing some modern pieces easier.

how comes?

If it were random then everything you try would sound like experimental modern music. It would not help to *reproduce* an already composed modern piece though.

 

[Morne]

how comes?

Basically what Paul said. It was just a (not very helpful) jab at that kind of music.