That's great LucaLuigi, I hope you'll really enjoy it and that looks a fine accordion to be playing. Do let us know how you get on!
Tom

Tom
george garside post_id=52181 time=1509750315 user_id=118 said:those are both important points to consider and I particularly like the idea of using the 3 centre rows as the home rows rather than using the 3 outer rows as one would with a 3 row continental box.
george
I dont. The outer rows are rooted at the edge rather than floating in the middle of somewhere. On a C system, the chord shapes of chords in root position diverge one row inward from the root note. While there are some inversions that would go either one row outward or two rows inward from the starting position, the inward shape is still nicer on the fingers in C system.george garside post_id=52181 time=1509750315 user_id=118 said:those are both important points to consider and I particularly like the idea of using the 3 centre rows as the home rows rather than using the 3 outer rows as one would with a 3 row continental box.
One tale is that the demise of Silent Film made a whole lot of theatre organ and piano players unemployed and that companies like Hohner jumped on the occasion to acquire them as accordion teachers.henrikhank post_id=55346 time=1518292327 user_id=2321 said:Its a good queation and I winder as I am from Sweden: why did people like Frankie Yankovic play the piano accordion? In Sweden the CBA is more popular and only pianist play the PA.
WaldoW pid=57149 dateline=1523767757 said:I think I read, somewhere in this forum, that there is a Scandinavian country (or northern European) where the PA is the accordion of choice, not the CBA.
Thats not that hard: you need leverage and good control of impulse for a pianoforte or clavichord. You still need significant leverage for a harpsichord. Buttons dont really work here (they would for a harmonium but a standard CBA keyboard would be too cramped for its general space consumption), but a Jankó keyboard would have. But diatonic notation actually favors piano keyboards over uniform 12-tone keyboards. Thats relevant for classical music, its not helpful for playing by ear, particularly single melodies or chord patterns. Where the CBA is established, it usually has a solid foothold in the respective folk music styles where playing by ear is the rule (in Russia, the bayan is a classical instrument, but gazillions of small CBA instruments with Stradella lay the groundwork for its adoption).donn post_id=57161 time=1523805145 user_id=60 said:WaldoW post_id=57149 time=1523767757 user_id=1663 said:I think I read, somewhere in this forum, that there is a Scandinavian country (or northern European) where the PA is the accordion of choice, not the CBA.
Altogether too many countries, actually, in Europe and elsewhere, to lend much weight to the American theory.
The piano keyboard predates the piano, it has been used for hundreds of years on various instruments. What we really need is a story that accounts for the absence of a button piano, button organ, button clavichord etc.
Schrammelharmonika, B system in the treble, diatonic in the bass.maugein96 post_id=57165 time=1523815072 user_id=607 said:The concise history of the accordion is a bit clouded, but it seems that some sort of CBA accordion was invented in Vienna in the early part of the 19th century.
Seriously? Wiener here actually means a two-row diatonic. Not at all CBA.maugein96 post_id=57169 time=1523817230 user_id=607 said:Very true Geronimo. Ive heard of the Schrammel music style before but am not really familiar with it.
A while ago I was browsing the Thomann catalogue for a guitar and discovered that they referred to CBAs (both B and C system) as Vienna style, on their English language pages. Most of the advertised models were B system, but there were one or two C system instruments in their listings.
In my experience, not just the English language pages, though when looking it over now, they have in German the equivalents of piano accordion, button accordion (CBA only), Styrian harmonica (indeed looks correct), so basically they arent selling any diatonics apart from Styrian. I remember a wild melange under half-fitting to absurd labels a few years ago (bigger CBAs labelled as piano accordion, some others as Styrian). They did have a Wiener then; I dont remember which category they sorted it under. Here is a link to an actual Vienna style accordion.maugein96 post_id=57180 time=1523824631 user_id=607 said:Dont really want to become part of their sales team, but here is a link to the page I was talking about:-
https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=vienna+accordions
Its amazing what can be lost and/or misinterpreted in translation.
There is always the possibility that somebody at Thomann with not a lot of knowledge about accordions was tasked with preparing the English language pages.
They probably have half their employees playing some kind of guitar, and it was either them or us.maugein96 post_id=57193 time=1523833649 user_id=607 said:Had a look at the link you posted and it suggests that accordions are often not described properly by some music stores.
Seems to me that coming from a piano background, piano accordion is a no brainer!<EMOJI seq=1f642>?</EMOJI>lucaluigi72 post_id=51391 time=1508059055 user_id=2289 said:Hallo Im Luca from Italy
I have studied for some years piano and I love to play recorder. I like balkan, irish and folk musik.
I started to learn accordion in june renting a piano accordion but Im attracted to learn cromatic accordion.
A friend of mine lent me a cromatic accordion 2 weeks ago and it is difficult to learn but not impossibile.
It is beautiful making progress but Im afraid it will be really more difficult to improvise!
I would like to have some advice from piano and cromatic accordionists about