Chickers
Active member
Bare with me a bit on this, as I'm not really sure I have a good grasp of all intricacies of either diatonic or chromatic.
I recently watched a video of a accordion sales pro somewhere in Texas explaining the difference between Diatonic accordions and Chromatic accordions,
however, I did not think the comparison he showed was valid as the chromatic accordion was a Roland FR-8x B electronic button style, and the diatonic was a small 31/12 acoustic button box.
I can understand the small diatonic workings as each button (at least on the treble side) has the ability of sounding two notes; one on the pull, and another note on the push, and the example showed was an acoustic so I would think one specific reed is active on the push, and another reed is activated with the same button on the pull.
The Roland is producing it's sound electronically so the push / pull is only an aesthetic thing, with no real function. I understand the push / pull on the Roland can be programmed to function as wanted.
It seems to me that an accurate, and more meaningful comparison would be with two acoustic accordions of similar size and capability. Does that make sense ?
Is there such an instrument as a "electronic" diatonic accordion , so technically it could be programmed to preference.
I apologize if I getting too abstract, and off base with my rant, but I think we have enough complications to keep straight without trying to understand how apples and oranges are the same yet soo different.----sorry about that.
Anyhow, I would appreciate any commentary and thoughts.
Thank you, CHICKERS
I recently watched a video of a accordion sales pro somewhere in Texas explaining the difference between Diatonic accordions and Chromatic accordions,
however, I did not think the comparison he showed was valid as the chromatic accordion was a Roland FR-8x B electronic button style, and the diatonic was a small 31/12 acoustic button box.
I can understand the small diatonic workings as each button (at least on the treble side) has the ability of sounding two notes; one on the pull, and another note on the push, and the example showed was an acoustic so I would think one specific reed is active on the push, and another reed is activated with the same button on the pull.
The Roland is producing it's sound electronically so the push / pull is only an aesthetic thing, with no real function. I understand the push / pull on the Roland can be programmed to function as wanted.
It seems to me that an accurate, and more meaningful comparison would be with two acoustic accordions of similar size and capability. Does that make sense ?
Is there such an instrument as a "electronic" diatonic accordion , so technically it could be programmed to preference.
I apologize if I getting too abstract, and off base with my rant, but I think we have enough complications to keep straight without trying to understand how apples and oranges are the same yet soo different.----sorry about that.
Anyhow, I would appreciate any commentary and thoughts.
Thank you, CHICKERS