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  2. Diatonic button accordion - Wikipedia

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    A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody -side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons, with each row producing the notes of a single diatonic scale .

  3. 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.

  4. Squeezebox - Wikipedia

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    Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century). The term squeezebox (also squeeze box , squeeze-box ) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows -driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina .

  5. 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 ...

  6. Richter tuning - Wikipedia

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    Richter tuning is a system of choosing the reeds for a diatonic wind instrument (such as a harmonica or accordion).It is named after Joseph Richter, a Bohemian instrument maker who adopted the tuning for his harmonicas in the early 19th century and is credited with inventing the blow/draw mechanism that allows the harmonica to play different notes when the air is drawn instead of blown.

  7. 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]

  8. Cajun accordion - Wikipedia

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    The Cajun accordion is generally defined as a single-row diatonic accordion, as compared to multiple-row instruments commonly used in Irish, Italian, polka, and other styles of music. The Cajun accordion has four reed ranks , i.e., four reeds for each melody button, and each reed bank is controlled by a corresponding stop or knob on the top of ...

  9. Trikiti - Wikipedia

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    Performance featuring a trikiti with tambourine accompaniment. The trikiti [1] (standard Basque, pronounced ) trikitixa (dialectal Basque, pronounced ), or eskusoinu txiki ("little hand-sound", pronounced [es̺kus̺oɲu tʃiki])) is a two-row Basque diatonic button accordion with right-hand rows keyed a fifth apart and twelve unisonoric bass buttons.