The National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD features a diatonic button accordion by Berlin maker J. Pomm, with up to three treble rows balanced by eight bass buttons. Diatonic accordions produce notes when closing and opening their bellows, though they are limited to playing one key and cannot produce chromatic scales like those produced by READ MORE
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Diatonic Accordions
Small diatonic accordions, commonly referred to as melodeons, typically feature one to three treble rows and eight bass buttons, with additional “bisonoric” basses that play different notes depending on whether or not you push or pull on the bellows. These accordions may only have limited keys, yet can still prove quite versatile. You’ll even find READ MORE
Diatonic Accordion
Diatonic accordions feature one row of ten buttons with two reeds per button. They play diatonic scale without accidentals on the right hand and bass notes and chords corresponding to it on the left hand. Other accordions come equipped with different arrangements of keys and accidentals. Some even feature an additional keyboard which enables players READ MORE
The Piano Accordion
The Piano accordion is an instrument with several distinctive characteristics that makes its music through a series of melodies and chords, using both treble keyboards for melodies and bass buttons for chords. Furthermore, its register switches allow its players to tailor different combinations of reed ranks for creating different timbres of sounds. Each key produces READ MORE
Buying a Piano Accordion
Accordions offer an effective and enjoyable way for children to discover music, as they teach melody, harmony and rhythm while offering them the feeling that they’re making real music and gaining a sense of achievement from playing an accordion. First and foremost, one should consider what genre of music the student wants to perform, which READ MORE
Button Accordions
Button accordions can be intimidating for beginning players, but with practice you will become adept at selecting the appropriate button to press for optimal sound production. Many varieties are diatonic; others (such as the garmon) can even be bisonoric, meaning each button produces two notes when pressed or pulled back and forth. Sound Button accordions READ MORE
How to Play a Button Accordion
Button accordions feature buttons that, when pushed perpendicular to their bellows, open valves to allow airflow through reeds. Pumping of the bellows produces sounds or notes. Standard accordions feature rows of buttons arranged using the Circle of Fifths to produce single notes, each providing fixed major, minor, dominant seventh (omitting fifth), or diminished chords. Keyboard READ MORE
Diatonic Accordions
Diatonic accordions are musical instruments which enable their players to play in one key, using buttons for various notes depending on whether or not their bellows are pulled or pushed backward. Melodeons are diatonic button accordions composed of one to three treble rows and usually eight bass buttons, and feature all flats and sharps in READ MORE
Diatonic Accordion
Diatonic accordions can be an ideal solution for musicians looking to perform only in a handful of keys, as they tend to be lighter and easier to manage than their chromatic counterparts. Demian invented this instrument that features free reeds connected to a keyboard equipped with buttons on both sides; one side produces melodies while READ MORE
Diatonic Accordions
Diatonic accordions contain one to three treble rows and eight basses, wherein only notes from diatonic scales may be played, without changing keys; on the contrary, bass side chord roots include chord root notes with several key accidentals as part of each chord structure. The right hand treble keyboard contains several switches (also referred to READ MORE