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IvanM

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Bandonika
« on: May 08, 2014, 02:34:38 PM »
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Re: Bandonika
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2014, 03:14:25 PM »
Tempted! Had one for a while, but stupidly sold it.
The Hess looks beautiful. The gang-mounted reeds would put me off though.
Individual reedplates on the Galotta has to be an advantage, and 3 voice, but it looks so plain and boring by comparison, and probably twice the weight.
OK, talked myself out of it....  :-(
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Re: Bandonika
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2014, 03:51:28 PM »
Do they have important drawbacks? Why has their production stopped? From the first look the melodeon layout is much better for such boxes than the illogical weird one of bandoneons.
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Re: Bandonika
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2014, 07:30:38 AM »
Quote from: IvanM on May 16, 2014, 03:51:28 PM
Do they have important drawbacks? Why has their production stopped? From the first look the melodeon layout is much better for such boxes than the illogical weird one of bandoneons.

Compared to a melodeon they were expensive to make and there's a lot of wasted space in one (do you really need that much bellow?).  They are also more limiting movement wise, they're hell to play standing up  (:)

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Re: Bandonika
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2014, 02:18:08 PM »
But Argentinians and some USies still play bandoneons/chemnitzers. Apart from problems you mentioned these boxes have the weirdest layout. I wonder why they do not play tango and polka with melodeons then.
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Re: Bandonika
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2014, 07:22:16 PM »
Quote from: IvanM on May 17, 2014, 02:18:08 PM
But Argentinians and some USies still play bandoneons/chemnitzers. Apart from problems you mentioned these boxes have the weirdest layout. I wonder why they do not play tango and polka with melodeons then.
The original Bandoneon layout may be a bit complicated, but the layout of Chemnitzer and Karlsfelder Konzertinas is not to difficult.

Why play them? – The sound is different, the playing technique is different, the whole instrument is different.

Here is an example of the late Karl Oriwohl, playing the Kusserow-Bandonion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcFHR62yJc
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Re: Bandonika
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2014, 08:12:21 PM »
Quote from: IvanM on May 17, 2014, 02:18:08 PM
But Argentinians and some USies still play bandoneons/chemnitzers. Apart from problems you mentioned these boxes have the weirdest layout. I wonder why they do not play tango and polka with melodeons then.

You don't have the left hand chord structure on a melodeon or the range of right hand notes on the pull (for Tango).

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