Reedless accordions are an old story. The Hohner Electrovox and Farfisa Transicord were the original reedless accordions. These instruments had up to date electronics for their time. History has shown that because these accordions lacked a real accordion timeless they soon became dated.
It is common knowledge that at first the Accorgan and then the Cordovox took over as the electronic model.
Today, some reedless accordions are useful if they are significantly lighter than the corresponding real accordion. Of course, some full blown MIDI accordions are lighter than some reedless accordions. Some players buy a MIDI accordion and remove some or all the reeds. This allows these players to return those reeds to the accordion for more of a "combo" effect when these players become bored with the elecronics alone.
NOTE : Use the back arrow button on your browser to return to the previous document or continue reading. NEW VS. At Accordion-O-Rama, you can get a very fine instrument whether it is new or rebuilt. New is nice, but the rebuilt models generally offer the best value. This is not the same as used ones. Our team of specialists really go over the instruments.
If you discuss your purchase with the expert sales staff at Accordion-O-Rama, you can be sure to get an instrument that will suit your specifications and a realistic budget. Accordion-O-Rama has a repair staff. Our mechanic, tuner, and electronic specialists really go over the accordions. Some fine instruments are completely dismantled and re-assembled to look, play, and sound like new. Most music stores are not set up to do this.
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If you buy a rebuilt accordion from Accordion-O-Rama, you can be sure it will give you fine service because you do get a guarantee. SIZE Bass or not. The stradella system in most piano accordions is what gives the accordion its power. The piano keys play the melody.
The left hand plays two parts of the song: one section for bass and another for chords. This is like a rock group with a lead, rhythm, and bass guitar rolled into one instrument.
The stradella system ranges from 8 or 12 bass up to or bass. There are special systems that go even beyond this. The most typical complete system has bass and 41 treble keys. This is balanced left to right hand. The number of bass buttons and the number of treble keys allows you roughly equal range on both sides of the accordion.
As you reduce the number of bass buttons in certain logical steps, the number of treble keys is also reduced. The lowest number of bass buttons commonly found is in the 12 bass accordion. This usually has 25 treble keys. These instruments do not have enough bass buttons to play very much of anything. Accordion-O-Rama usually recommends adults or teens start with the 48 bass accordion. This amount of bass buttons is balanced with 26 treble keys. You theoretically can find any possible bass note on the left hand, but it is really meant to play in the keys of C, G or F.
These are extremely light in weight, easy to handle, and can play the bulk of accordion music. When you get to the point where you would want to trade-up, these are models you would want to keep.
The attraction is the extreme light weight and portability. Experienced musicians can find enough substitutions, or roots, to play anything. These have 34 keys to be balanced. They share the same overall size frame. These are for intermediate players. You can just about play anything with the 34 keys.
This has enough range for a casual player to never need to go beyond. These are normally made with 37 keys. There are enough redundant buttons to allow you to play in very high positions without making big jumps.
The 80 bass is missing the diminished chords on the extreme distal end of the left hand chord section. As long as you have the overall size of the frame determined by the 37 keys, why not have the diminished chords of the 96 bass accordion.
All the reeds have to be there anyway. We recommend the 96 bass for people who want to just trim the weight slightly. If you never played a bass, you will never miss a thing. G to G on the right is enough. This is the first size model that is normally available with the full set of 4 treble reed sets and sometimes even a tone chamber.
The standard bass has 41 treble keys that runs from F to A. When an instrument has 41 treble keys and bass, it is not necessarily a full size instrument. We have small bass models with a 16", 41 key keyboard.
The overall pattern of the bass stradella system means the left hand buttonboard has 2 sections. The 2 rows nearest the bellows play single deep bass notes.
The outer rows play major, minor, seventh, and diminished chords. The Stradella bass system also called the standard bass sometimes is a type of button layout you find on the left or bass side of almost all accordions.
It uses columns of buttons arranged in a circle of fifths. Small accordions sometimes lack some of these rows, but for the purposes of this guide, we'll assume you have the full complement of buttons. Tip: Consider printing out this chart and referring to it as you continue with this guide.
You might find it helpful to have a visual representation of the directions described. The middle "C" usually has a bump or hole in it for you to feel, to make it easier to find your way around the left buttons without looking at them.
The A flat and E will also have some sort of marking sometimes. I'm kind of new to accordion I've played with a student 8 bass for 3 months but it seemed to me like having a counter bass row would be really helpful and that if it didn't have that I wouldn't want to buy it.
Am I right? Is that enough bass keys to play some decent intermediate maybe advanced level accordion songs? Thanks for helping me. Dave Garland. If you do need to email, replace the account name with my true name.
There are a few that have 12 notes but only 4 rows "12X4" , I think those also have counterbass and just major and minor chords but I'm not positive.
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