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Seven key melodeon set up

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Peadar:
Kimric Smyth is offering a new line of seven key melodeons which look very nice indeed.

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This is melnet so everyone has an opinion...and it turns out I'm not the only owner of a Chanson "Child Prodigy".

I favour 1st button start with a 7 key melodeon, because you get two full octaves apart from the 7th in the upper octave....others favour second button start.

Right Away Driver!

Lester:
As said by others I think second button start would be best for the music I play (English/morris/Euro). First button start would badly restrict the choice of tunes from my repertoire.

Steve_freereeder:
Yes - what Lester said.

Stiamh:
For Irish music and I suspect Scottish music too, a first-button start would be the only choice, really: it would give you the range of a tin whistle all the way (assuming we're in the key of D) from D up to high b.

One more button at the bottom end (i.e. second-button start) would stop you playing an awful lot of tunes because of the missing high b, without making more than a very small handful of other tunes available - unless you had another button below that for the low B.

Steve_freereeder:

--- Quote from: Stiamh on May 28, 2020, 05:31:54 PM ---For Irish music and I suspect Scottish music too, a first-button start would be the only choice, really: it would give you the range of a tin whistle all the way (assuming we're in the key of D) from D up to high b.

One more button at the bottom end (i.e. second-button start) would stop you playing an awful lot of tunes because of the missing high b, without making more than a very small handful of other tunes available - unless you had another button below that for the low B.

--- End quote ---

This is interesting, and I can see where you are coming from, Stiamh, because it perhaps highlights the different way in which ITM players and English traditional players (to perpetuate stereotypes for the moment!) think about the sorts of music they play.

A lot of English music is based around the key of G and the couple of notes or so below that are important. A 2nd button start in the key of G still gives you the high B, but of course you don't have the C# which is crucial for playing in D. Your analogy with D whistle playing is a good one.

I suppose the solution with Kimric's 7-button boxes is to decide which type of music you mostly want to play and then request either one in G with a 2nd button start, or one in D with 1st button start for Irish music.

Now, if only someone could invent an instrument which had two rows, one in D and one in G...  >:E

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