Diatonic button accordions are generally referred to as Melodeon. They are part of the Castagnari type with button accordions in which melody side keyboard contains one or more rows of button with each row producing the single diatonic tone scale. Single button row Irish melodeon is quite famous with tradition music for around last 100 years.
These all Irish
melodeon are part of free reed aerophone
instruments producing sound as air is passed through reed and pressure being
built by bellows. Melodeon is just simple the diatonic equipment with complete
whole tunes has 10 buttons at the right hand and two upto eight bass being
located at the left hand. In tune with G, D or C, Melodeon was one of the most
popular instrument in the early 20th century and spread fast across
Ireland, Scotland and Britain. B/C is one of the primary preferred choices for
Music played by Irish natives.
With modern times a lot of revival went through for one-row
melodeon. Chromatic system is preferred by Irish Musicians, rows are semitone
apart with sharps and flat. One-row melodeons are best used in relation to
Cajun Music with buttons in the set of 2, 3 or 4 sets of reed. Now a day there are
toys melodeons available in the market for children. Their tunes and styles decide
the equipments that you choose to buy. In Britain, Australia melodeon is
alternate name for all button accordions whereas in North-America they all are
called as Accordions only.
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