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2. Squeezebox - Wikipedia

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   Accordions (including piano accordions and button accordions) typically have right-hand buttons or keys that play single notes (melody) and left hand buttons that play chords and bass notes. The bandoneon is a type of concertina particularly popular in South America and Lithuania, frequently featuring in tango ensembles.

3. Free-bass system - Wikipedia

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   A piano-like layout exists that mirrors the right-hand keyboard of a piano accordion, with round buttons laid out like piano keys. This system is popular in Asian piano accordions, especially in Azeri garmon. A hybrid Chromatic/Stradella system known as the Moschino free-bass system is available.

4. Piano accordion - Wikipedia

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   A piano accordion is an accordion equipped with a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano or organ. Its acoustic mechanism is more that of an organ than a piano, as they are both aerophones, but the term "piano accordion"—coined by Guido Deiro in 1910 [1] —has remained the popular name. It may be equipped with any of the available systems ...

5. Nick Ariondo - Wikipedia

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   Nick Ariondo was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and started private accordion lessons at age 7 under the tutelage of TV personality Mario DiNardo. Whilst still new students, Nick and his older brother, Anthony, began playing for church functions, fashion shows and family events in the late 1950s before traveling to the west coast.

6. Willard A. Palmer - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] As an instrumentalist, he was accomplished in the accordion and piano. [3] Palmer invented a 'quint' system which was later patented by Titano as used in their line of converter (or "quint") bass accordions. Palmer made many written contributions to magazines for the promotion of the Piano accordion, including Accordion World. Some of ...

7. Accordion in music - Wikipedia

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   Opposite the Titano Accordion "quint" free bass system designed by Willard Palmer, Ariondo and the late Tommy Gumina are two artists in the United States that play a reverse "quint" free bass system (no converter, only free bass). Ariondo's "Perpetual Motion" video demonstrates the artistic capabilities of the free bass accordion .