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choosing a secondary instrument
Mazelman:
I've been playing melodeon for almost 2,5 years now on an old CF Hohner pokerworks with Dutch reversal I quite literally found in an attic. I feel like it's time to look for a secondary melodeon to diversify my possibilities in playing. Last year I bought an old hohner club in CF for a reasonable price but it's bellows are too leaky to properly play at the moment, and also really similar to the pokerworks in general.
I'm thinking of buying a new melodeon but it's hard deciding on what to get, because I have too many wishes to fullfill. I'd like to be able to sing and accompany myself whilst playing but the keys of c and f are too high for me to comfortably sing in (although I don't know what key my voice is naturally in). I'd also like to have an instrument that's more expansive than the regular 21 button 8 bass 5th apart melodeon to allow for more "jazzy playing".
I'm but a student so I'm limited in my budget so I couldn't just buy everything I want. What do you box veterans recommend me getting first?
Fred:
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Quick and dirty answer: Get some kind of Hohner Club model in Bb/Eb. Those have a glorious sound, allow for a lot of versatile playstyles and can be had relatively cheap (either as-is from ebay or retuned from a melodeon workshop).
Dick Rees:
Small box to accompany singing, capable of "jazzy" styles and a student budget?
48 or 60 bass PA.
Play that for a few years and save up for whatever diatonic box you find offers the more comprehensive chords and keyboard for that jazzy stuff.
Peadar:
Buy a fiddle?
Or an A&D - baby steps - the A&D would give you sharp keys at concert pitch and a lower pitch to try matching your voice to.
Diatonic instruents are by definition limited in range - that's part of their attraction - they have strengths and weaknesses which make them inherently brilliant instruments for some things and incapable of others.
Instruments like the bagpipes in their different national forms have over centuries been influenced by and have influenced the traditional music of the national culture they belong to. That variety is something infinitely precious in human terms. I would be very wary of trying to find the one instrument that will do everyhing for you.
xgx:
All you need in one box .... 72 Bass 2 voice CBA
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