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A digital remake of the Korg CX-3 was launched in 2001, [2] has two sets of drawbars, a waterfall keyboard, expression and overdrive controls, and a built-in reverb unit and Leslie simulator. [3] It also had a tube (valve) amplifier simulation. It weighs 37.5 lb (17 kg).
A digital accordion is an electronic musical instrument that uses the control features of a traditional accordion (bellows, bass buttons for the left hand, and a small piano-style keyboard (or buttons) for the right hand, and register switches) to trigger a digital sound module that produces synthesized or digitally sampled accordion sounds or ...
English: Louis Le Prince's Accordion Player from 1888. This is an amateur remastering from the National Science Museum's 1930 copy: 19 frames at 2 frames per second. Original image upsampled, split and cropped using IrfanView; converted by VirtualDub to uncompressed AVI; converted to OGV at maximum videobitrate by ffmpeg2the
By the year 1900, the Stradella bass system had principally reached its current construction with 120 buttons over six rows. However, while that setup worked well for major and minor music accompanied by many chords, the performer would only have access to about a major seventh of bass notes while playing, or two octaves with a timely shift of registers.
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.
The rarely used bass accordion has only a right-hand keyboard, with ranks of 8', 16', and 32' reeds, with the lowest note being the deepest pitch on a pipe organ pedal keyboard (pedal C). It is intended for performing basslines in accordion orchestras. The rarely used piccolo accordion also has only a right-hand keyboard.
Chromatic button accordion; Classification: Free-reed aerophone: Playing range; Right-hand manual: The Russian bayan and chromatic button accordions have a much greater right-hand range in scientific pitch notation than an accordion with a piano keyboard: five octaves plus a minor third (written range = E2-G7, actual range = E1-D9, some have a 32 ft Register on the Treble to go even lower down ...
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 ...