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Thread #126049 Message #2799278
Posted By: Marje
30-Dec-09 - 10:23 AM
Thread Name: Very cheap keyboard - suggestions?
Subject: RE: Very cheap keyboard - suggestions?
I get the impression from the pre-selected tunes and songs on my Yamaha that it's geared to the American market. This may explain why they have a couple of accordion voices but no concertina, as I think concertina is fairly rare in the US.
Also, the concertina just isn't associated with any widely heard commercial or popular music. You can hear accordions in recordings of folk dance music of various European origins - in fact a waltz on an accordion is almost a cliche for "France" in film and TV, just as the Highland pipes are shorthand for "Scotland", but a concertina ...? It ought to be regarded as typical of English music, but in the US there is no such thing as English music, so that can't be its role in a product aimed at the American market.
There's no melodeon "voice" on the Yamaha either. But I have a melodeon so I don't need that.
Marje