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[emrock]

Got hooked on Pignol & Milleret stuff recently, as well as other similar musicians such as Vincent Boniface and Simone Bottasso. I am this trying to play some of their tunes on my D/G with some limited success.

In the long term though I'd love to get a box more suitable for this kind of music, possibly a 3 row 18 bass. But would like to know what layout/key Pignol and Milleret play in. Is it GCF? or is it something more complicated?

[ocd]

From a Spanish site:

http://personales.ya.com/diatonico/Teclados/Pignol-Milleret.pdf

[melodeon]

I have it

give me an e mail adrtess and I'll send you a file

[Steve C.]

http://www.lamaisondelaccordeon.com/files/pdf/plans_clavier.pdf

Has some good button diagrams maybe will be helpful.

[Andy in Vermont]

In the long term though I'd love to get a box more suitable for this kind of music, possibly a 3 row 18 bass. But would like to know what layout/key Pignol and Milleret play in. Is it GCF? or is it something more complicated?

They used to have it posted on their "Mustradem" website --
They have a couple of different layouts.  Usually the outer row is a typical G row, but on the inner row the G and the A are reversed -- G is pull and A is pressed.

[Nick Hudis]

If you get their tutor which is an excellent investment, volume 3 gives a detailed explanation of their 3 row layout.  Fascinating. The books are available from the Mustradem website.

[BCC#er]

Drat! Vol 3 is out of print!!

[Andrel]

Try here:

http://www.buttonbox.com/learn-to-play-accordion.html

[BCC#er]

Great! Thank you very much!

[BCC#er]

Hm, tried to place the order but received no confirmation. Didn't receive any answer on my email too. Is it common for this shop or it's a kind of luck of an Irish?

[JimJ]

I placed an order on the 13th. Got immediate confirmation, and the books arrived on the 15th priority mail.
Admittedly I am in Florida so it wasn't much of a trip. Now that I think of it, I did place an order with them once, in the middle of the night, and didn't get a response. Several days later I emailed to see what was up, and they said the order had shipped. They thought the response may have ended up in my SPAM file.

[BCC#er]

Well I'll wait for a while then. If it's still no reply I'll try to phone them maybe. Thanks!

[Steve C.]

Button Box has a very aggressive spam filter, not sure why, but I have had same thing happen, and I am located in US with with a yahoo.com mailbox address.  Might want to give them a call. Or try another email account if you have one.

[BCC#er]

Aye I think I will phone them. Actually I used the contact form on the site.

[rees]

They have a couple of different layouts.  Usually the outer row is a typical G row, but on the inner row the G and the A are reversed -- G is pull and A is pressed.

This is the standard system in Holland but on a C/F box, so C and D are flipped on the F row.