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Thread #132589   Message #3000735
Posted By: treewind
06-Oct-10 - 03:11 AM
Thread Name: Accordian-ish Instrument ??
Subject: RE: Accordian-ish Instrument ??
decide what we're going to do with it!
Learn to play it!
The Hohner pokerwork is a good and popular instrument - a robust and respectable melodeon from the cheaper end of the range, an excellent model to learn on and good enough to keep.

Each row will play a scale in a different key following a push-pull sequence the same as a harmonica. The outer and inner row will most likely be in D and G, but C/F, G/C and other pairs keys a fourth apart are possible. Alternatively they will be a semitone apart e.g. B/C but that's rare on a Hohner pokerwork.

We Brits call it a melodeon: most of the rest on the world calls it a diatonic button accordion.

Strictly speaking a bisonoric diatonic to distingush it from a Russian Garmoshka which is diatonic but unisonoric.
(I'll get me anorak...)