G'day again,

martin ellison: My old Hohner catalogs call the "German Style" (square, wooden, turned wooden 'stops', simple 2-button bass) "Melodeons" ... the flashy modern 2- and 3-rowers in tasteful 'mother-of-toilet-seat' and having extra (sub-dominant and minor) chord buttons "Diatonic Button Accordions" and I can live with that as reasonably good distinction. Barry Finn's ADG (Corona?) is certainly a (button) accordion ... to me, if not the Scottish competition moderators!

Anahata: Well, I might not "be surprised at the amount of melodic bass line than can be achieved with a standard 8-button bass on a 2 row melodeon, if you really try... following up collected music from "Germanic" migrants to Australia in the Gold Rush to Federation periods has led me down interesting paths. Then, a few visits, workshops and Master Classes by Brian Peters have shown me lots of ways to trick a lot more harmony out of a simple button accordion. (So much that I now worry about just where to "draw the line" between legitimate folk style and ... errr... whatever I'm doing...?

Regards,

Bob