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What are the different tuning options available for an accordion?
Having spent several years researching, analyzing and of course, performing the tuning of piano accordions I have run across and/or tried quite a few variations. There are almost as many different tunings for an accordion as there are accordion manufacturers and tuners. Each tuning gives a different overall sound....
The musical temperament of Bach comprises within its circle 5 well tempered fifths and 7 perfect fifths.
Bach,
Das wohltemperierte Clavier,
Das wohltemperirte Clavier,
wohltemperiert,
wohltemperirt,
well-tempered,
welltempered,
well tempered,
Forty-Eight,
Musical temperament,
tuning,
organ,
organs,
harpsichord,
Orgeln,
Cembali,
Werckmeister,
Kirnberger,
Herbert Anton Kellner
Random Notes by Jim Allen: Here is a collection of short items. Most are too short to justify pages for themselves. Mostly just a bunch of hinks, kinks and tricks.
Learning on the Harmonica
The harmonica offers a cheap way to learn the diatonic system. It is arranged and played just like the diatonic accordion, but is far less expensive to purchase.
The kick-back I frequently get from someone who is taking this advice is "I can't get the harmonica to play single notes."
Of course it's hard for a beginner to play single notes on a harmonica. That's the way it's made. A beginner should not worry about playing single notes. It sounds better when two or three notes are played at a time. A single reed, played by itself, doesn't sound great. Ask a violinist (fiddler) how easy it is to play two or three notes at a time on that instrument. How about a five-note chord? They'll think you're crazy. Anyway, you don't have to play single notes to learn the diatonic system ...
The term "zeuxilogy" comes from an ancient Greek word, Seugma, that means "to yoke". Hence "zeuxilogy" – the musical discipline of "putting together" different pulsations.
This is a step-by-step guided tour presenting the basics of a musical discipline called "zeuxilogy".*
The main purpose of this guided tour on zeuxilogy is to acknowledge the fact that not only sounds conceal a complex functional nature, but most of (musical) pulsations as well....