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Janko keyboard on Reddit

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The Easy Accordion Solos version has a single F# in the key signature
So that's either G major or E minor, is there a real difference ?

Edit: I looked it up, and yes there is a real difference. 
But there's no difference if you're looking at an existing score as opposed to creating a new piece of music.
 
Glug said:
The Easy Accordion Solos version has a single F# in the key signature
So that's either G major or E minor, is there a real difference ?

Edit: I looked it up, and yes there is a real difference. 
But there's no difference if you're looking at an existing score as opposed to creating a new piece of music.

I primarily play by ear, and just use the scores as a guide to the key etc. If I don't fancy the way it's written I'll do my own thing with both the melody and the bass. It's the only way I can tackle music of any kind, on any instrument.

I've rarely used any "easy" scores, as they never really existed for French musette, other than for tunes like Domino which were as popular for their lyrics as they were for the tune. I often find that I simply cannot follow some of the easier transcriptions, as so much of the material has been left out, but they are handy for picking the meat out of the bones.  

It is (to my mind) an unfortunate trait that in various accordion genres many of the tunes have been composed for the sole purpose of "showing off" the virtuoso technique of the composer. 


However, many of the "finger busters" aren't all that difficult once you have some experience of playing. I just wish they never wrote a lot of them in "awkward" keys, so that only virtuoso readers have a chance of playing them. I don't have the patience to transcribe complicated stuff into keys that are easier to read. 

I'd love to find an "easy" version of compositions by Andre Astier and Joss Baselli, so I could learn more of their material. A lot of it was written in "those" keys with multitudes of sharps and flats. 

I'll end by saying that most difficult keys can be overcome by simply kicking the door down!
 
Thanks for that.

It's identical to the Easy Accordion Solos version (including some fingering tips).
And it has the same copyright notice etc so I'm sure it's the same source.

I did a search and found Accordeon Facile volumes 1 and 5 online too :)
Almost all of volume 1 is in Easy Accordion Solos, but volume 5 has some new stuff: including Indifference.
Each volume of Accordeon Facile has 15 pieces, Easy Accordion Solos has 39 pieces.

So time to get busy with Musescore again :)
 
Glug pid=71561 dateline=1587894734 said:
Hiya,

I just spotted this on reddit:
Interesting keyboard :)

Apparently hes playing Le Clochard de Paris, unfortunately the sheet music is in Bal Musette by Gisela Probst and Amazon.de wont deliver to the UK at the moment :(
Anybody know where I could get the music ?


In Sweden there is an accordionist demonstrating the uniform 6+6 (+ one repeat row) keyboard for accordion.
The Säkkijärven polka :
  

The first person to write about this typical 6+6 layout was by Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz in 1654, see page 154 in this pdf document, for a sketch of a 6+6 (+one repeat row) keyboard for harpsichord or organ with identical fingering in all music keys :
http://www.patriziobarbieri.it/pdf/caramuel.pdf  

An article with the history of the inventor(s) of the uniform keyboard:
http://www.le-nouveau-clavier.fr/english/
 
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