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club model melodeons
« on: June 09, 2013, 02:41:27 PM »

Can anyone exp0lain the history behind the layout of the club model melodeon? What advantage is gained by having a button that sounds the same on push/pull?
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Re: club model melodeons
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2013, 03:32:48 PM »

It not so much that a button plays the same on push/pull, it's the availability of that note on pull at all that's important. By itself, it means that you have a whole scale of the inner row key on pull, and also you have the dominant or dominant seventh chord available on the right hand on pull.

But there's more to the club system than that one button. It always has a half row of "helper" buttons - accidentals and reversals - and the combined effect is to make the box quite versatile key-wise.
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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2013, 03:40:37 PM »

The history as far as I know is that it was a Subset of the Steirische system which still rules in Bavaria , Austria, Slovenia etc - this is where the Gleichton came from (Steirisches have one on all bar the outer row so a 5 row has four Gleichtons) .

the Club system for basses is basically the same as a regular box but with different basses for the push to the pull . Steirische basses are more complex and differ based on geographic location and point in time , most (including Heligonkas) thesedays follow the Oberkrainer pattern which from my research differs from the old Novak (like club) or early Heligonka (like Hohner Corona) systems 
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Re: club model melodeons
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2013, 07:38:55 AM »

There's some handy background info about Club melodeons at http://www.delaguerre.com/delaguerre/pedagogy/club/toc.html
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