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The piano accordion in a modern context. Excellent music all composed by David Mason and played by Grayson Masefield.
A very powerful bass on what appears to be a fairly standard designed 41 key accordion.
On the second short clip we see a similar accordion but with 160 bass buttons, which means the inner 4 rows give two octaves of stradella basses, likely starting on C1, which goes deeper than even a bayan, plus the normal major, minor, 7th and diminished chords on the outer 4 rows. Looks like the accordion is a converter instrument too, which doubles the single note range when required.
However, I think the 160 bass instrument was used for the overall bass sound (on all the recordings here) but the standard 41 key instrument was used to record the treble. On the 2nd video, we notice the bass section changing repeatedly, from white basses to black basses. Interesting and effective recording technique, to combine the sounds of different instruments.
In the 3rd video, the 45 key & 160 bass accordion is simply brutal.
And another video game theme. Awesome!
A very powerful bass on what appears to be a fairly standard designed 41 key accordion.
On the second short clip we see a similar accordion but with 160 bass buttons, which means the inner 4 rows give two octaves of stradella basses, likely starting on C1, which goes deeper than even a bayan, plus the normal major, minor, 7th and diminished chords on the outer 4 rows. Looks like the accordion is a converter instrument too, which doubles the single note range when required.
However, I think the 160 bass instrument was used for the overall bass sound (on all the recordings here) but the standard 41 key instrument was used to record the treble. On the 2nd video, we notice the bass section changing repeatedly, from white basses to black basses. Interesting and effective recording technique, to combine the sounds of different instruments.
In the 3rd video, the 45 key & 160 bass accordion is simply brutal.
And another video game theme. Awesome!
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