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Casali Verona

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Thank you Jim D - PA Accordion sounded too obvious for a mo ........
Trouble is I consider all Accordions to be 'Piano Accordions' and anything with buttons t' be a melodeon <EMOJI seq="1f606">?</EMOJI>
 
its much more complicated than that and to some degree depends where you live! In England any small diatonic 2 or 3 row box with bisonoric bass is a melodeon. in Ireland only a one row is a melodeon and 2 and 3 rows are button accordions, In France all push/pull boxes are accordion diatonique's aand in many parts of the world eg south America they are just simply 'accordions' There are other variations on the diatonic front

Then there are the large 3 row diatonic with up to 120 stradella bass as played by Sir Jimmy Shand which , to give it its 'Sunday best' name is a British Chromatic although Jimmy occasionaly refered to it as a 'wee melodeon' (all 117 bass of it!) A lot more logical than most people think and only 5 scalesworth of learning for 12 keys.

And before anybody asks the British Chromatic is both diatonic and chromatic . The diatonic bit refers to each row having only the notes for one particular key eg BCC#. The chromatic bit comes about because taking the 3 rows as an entity there are not only all the notes required to play in any key but a useful selection of duplicates in opposite bellows direction. 2 of everything exept G, D and A !
george

Then there is the completely different species of button box, namely the continental chromatic which is probably the most logical and sensible of all accordions. 3, 4 or 5 row treble and between 48 and 120 bass. Same note on press and draw and 12 keys can be played with only one scalesworth of fingering on the 5 row or 3 scalesworth on the 3 row.

george
 
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