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Thread #33620   Message #3269434
Posted By: Peter the Squeezer
06-Dec-11 - 03:12 PM
Thread Name: Why do accordions have a counter bass?
Subject: RE: Why do accordions have a counter bass?
The counterbass row is extremely useful for putting in bits of tunes in the bass.

I use it in Flanders & Swann's "Hippoptamus". (... Dum Dum Dum Diddle Um Dum ...)