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Tattyjacket

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Unique keyboard layout?
« on: November 19, 2008, 10:59:24 PM »

Does anybody else do this?

D/G melodeon.  G row tuned to low notes, D row tuned to accidentals.

Low notes on the G row are useful for some Morris tunes.
Accidentals on the D row enable me to play......and I kid you not, "The Drinking Song" from the Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg.

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Re: Unique keyboard layout?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2008, 06:55:24 AM »

Had a discussion with Rees and someone else, I am afraid I forget who, about changing boxes to 4th button start to give both low  notes and accidentals and he suggested this very modification. It does seem to provide a very cost effective mod over the cost of changing the whole box to a 4th button start.

I would go for B/D (push/pull) on the G Row and Bb/Eb on the D row myself.

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Re: Unique keyboard layout?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2008, 03:27:10 PM »

One I like is Val's, who occasionally posts here.  The low D on the G row is converted to a B, can't think what's on the pull but it gives the low B without changeing the accidentals or moving the doh button.  Fourth button doh must be a bit of a bugger for tunes that have E followed by Eb - it's a big enough stretch on a 3rd button doh.
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Re: Unique keyboard layout?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2008, 03:30:08 PM »

On mine:
 G row starts B/F  D/F#
 D row starts G/A D/C#

but then I do have a half row for the accidentals.

That low G is very useful, much more so than the "standard"  F#
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Re: Unique keyboard layout?
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2008, 10:44:54 PM »

One I like is Val's, who occasionally posts here.  The low D on the G row is converted to a B...

Yep, just the B. Pull (F#) stays the same.

Brilliant, cheap little tweak ;D - adopted it yonks ago. Just for the sacrifice of that redundant duplicated low D, if you can get your brain around it, it's so much better... all you need for "The Drinking Song" is that low B...

Fourth button doh must be a bit of a bugger for tunes that have E followed by Eb - it's a big enough stretch on a 3rd button doh.

Too true. ::) Having owned a 'straight tuned' 4th start D/G Black Pearl 3 for a bit, and then having accidentals put on the bottom pair, the stretch, especially for the higher pitch accidentals, felt just too contorted. In light of experience, I think I should have kept the low notes at the bottom, then the accidentals, then the normal progression... just for the sakes of eliminating the stretch...

I suppose it wouldn't be so critical on a Tommy or anything else with a 'squished' geometry. Then again, there are a few posh boxes about with the low notes interlinked to a micro-half-row... which is another way of getting around it...

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