I had heard about it long ago these days I hear about it again. We are talking about a "harmonic scale" in and around Piacenza (my town). It seems that it was used long ago but has since “disappeared” I tried to search for news but the only thing I found was that there was a person (unfortunately he died recently) who had an accordion with this type of intervals. Moreover, he was the father of a friend of mine. I knew he played and was a great fan of accordion and typical folk songs. The question is, looking at the videos, since many of you are experts, would it be possible to understand at least a little bit what this scale was like?
Piacentina "harmonic scale"
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Ventura
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Pythagorean scales, especially pentatonic scale patterns, built on the simple frequency ratios of the harmonic series, sound pleasing and have emerged independently in the musical cultures of all the major civilizations.
Ventura
Been here for ages!
Thank you! You have enlightened me. I know little about music theory but I read the name “harmonic scale” in a local newspaper (toilet paper
) so it could be a "random name". Some time ago I had talked to another person, and it just occurred to me now, who instead claimed that the particularity lay in the layout of the notes on the button: C griff, B griff, Piacentina griff? I am unable to tell from the videos whether the layout of the keys falls within the two most known (C,B)I hope I haven't confused but I'd like to understand a little more. Eventually, since there are (were) different layouts for the bass LH it could be the same for RH, or not?
