stickista
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I’ve been playing a CBA midi controller for for a few months that allows me to sit at it piano-style, and I’m loving the way it allows me to leverage my piano instincts by unifying my conceptual mental map into a single field.
After years of playing mirrored free bass, as all (?) C Griff instruments are, I’ve never really felt that I truly unified my hands the way I now feel it with my pinky playing the low roots.
In addition, age related shakiness in my left hands means I’m not doing a ton of complex melodic counterpoint on the left anyway. mostly bass notes and 1/7/3, 1/5/2 shell voicings and arpeggiations with a little countermovement. I just love the versatility that free bass gives me over stradella.
As an Accordina player who does really complex RH chordal arrangements, most of the action for me is in my right hand anyway, with the left playing a supporting role.
As a result, I’m taking the plunge and having my new Benetoux C griff accordion built Bayan style, with low notes towards the floor in the bass side.
Anyone (particularly B system players) have any thoughts on this?
I do understand that it means my heirs will be inheriting a virtually unsellable instrument.
But the musical fluency this has been giving me, at least on the midi controller, is really exciting.
After years of playing mirrored free bass, as all (?) C Griff instruments are, I’ve never really felt that I truly unified my hands the way I now feel it with my pinky playing the low roots.
In addition, age related shakiness in my left hands means I’m not doing a ton of complex melodic counterpoint on the left anyway. mostly bass notes and 1/7/3, 1/5/2 shell voicings and arpeggiations with a little countermovement. I just love the versatility that free bass gives me over stradella.
As an Accordina player who does really complex RH chordal arrangements, most of the action for me is in my right hand anyway, with the left playing a supporting role.
As a result, I’m taking the plunge and having my new Benetoux C griff accordion built Bayan style, with low notes towards the floor in the bass side.
Anyone (particularly B system players) have any thoughts on this?
I do understand that it means my heirs will be inheriting a virtually unsellable instrument.

But the musical fluency this has been giving me, at least on the midi controller, is really exciting.
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