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2. Stradella bass system - Wikipedia

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   96-button Stradella bass layout on an accordion. C is in the middle of the root note row. The Stradella Bass System (sometimes called [1] standard bass) is a buttonboard layout equipped on the bass side of many accordions, which uses columns of buttons arranged in a circle of fifths; this places the principal major chords of a key (I, IV and V) in three adjacent columns.

3. Free-bass system - Wikipedia

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   The "quint" free-bass system invented by Willard Palmer – later patented by Titano, has extra bass rows to extend the existing bass arrangement of the Stradella system. [6] The quint version and chromatic-button versions were available in "converter" (or "transformer") models with a control to switch from standard Stradella to free-bass. [7]

4. Accordion - Wikipedia

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   The Stradella bass system, also called standard bass, [24] is arranged in a circle of fifths and uses single buttons for bass notes and additional rows of single buttons for preset major, minor, dominant seventh, and diminished chords. The dominant seventh and diminished chords are three-note chord voicings that omit the fifths of the chords.

5. Chromatic button accordion - Wikipedia

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   A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged chromatically. The bass-side keyboard is usually the Stradella system or one of the various free-bass systems. Included among chromatic button accordions are the Russian bayan and Schrammel accordion. There can be 3 to ...

6. Accordion reed ranks and switches - Wikipedia

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   How many reeds an accordion has is specified by the number of treble ranks and bass ranks. For example, a 4/5 accordion has four reeds on the treble side and five on the bass side. A 3/4 accordion has three reeds on the treble sides and four on the bass side. Reed ranks are classified by either organ 'foot-length' stops or instrument names ...

7. Bayan (accordion) - Wikipedia

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   Accordion, Chromatic button accordion, Bayan, Diatonic button accordion, Piano accordion, Stradella bass system, Free-bass system, Accordion reed ranks and switches The bayan (Russian: бая́н , IPA: [bɐˈjan] ) is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in the Russian Empire in the early 20th century and named after the 11th-century ...

8. Button accordion - Wikipedia

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   The diatonic 2-row button accordion with eight bass buttons is still very common in northeast Brazil. [6] It is known as the fole to distinguish it from the piano accordion. [6] It first appeared there in the late nineteenth century. [6] Previously, one-row diatonic button accordions with two bass buttons were used. [6]

9. Schwyzerörgeli - Wikipedia

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   The typical Schwyzerörgeli today has 18 bass buttons arranged in two rows (one for bass notes and one for major chords), and 31 treble buttons on the RH arranged in 3 rows with a fingering similar to the 'club' system. The basses progress in 4ths like the Stradella system seen on chromatic and piano accordions, but in the opposite direction.