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bellows release |
The button on the left side used to let air enter
and exit the bellows without passing through a reed.
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bisonoric
|
Presenting two different notes on
press
and draw
.
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diatonic
|
Arranged to suit the requirements of a scale other
than the chromatic scale, such as a major scale.
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draw
|
Pulling the bellows apart to draw air in through
the reeds whose valves are open.
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fingering system
|
The arrangement of the buttons on an accordion and
the order of assignment of notes to those buttons.
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helper accidentals
|
Buttons with assigned notes which fall outside the
diatonic system, notes often needed by players but which either
- do not appear on the instrument at all
- or appear only in one bellows direction
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home key
|
That major key of the instrument which may be played
either all as draw notes or all as press notes. The
home row
is in that key.
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home note
|
The first (lowest-pitched) appearance of the tonic
note of the home row
's scale on the home row.
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home row
|
The row of a multiple-row button accordion which
is the row central to the diatonic arrangment of notes on the instrument.
On a G/C/F accordion, C is the home key
and the C row is the home row. Also called the
I row
.
|
I row
|
The"One row" is the home
row
of the instrument.
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International System
|
The fingering system
used by the Acordeon Conjunto Norteño. It is a diatonic
system similar to that used by the harmonica, replicated thrice. The
International System is discussed in the Guide.
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press
|
Pressing the bellows together to force air out
through the reeds whose valves are open.
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relative chord
|
That naming for a chord which refers to the diatonic
step number of some scale instead of the key name. See
relative note
.
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relative note
|
A note expressed as the roman number relative to
the first step of a scale, or, by extension, relative to the
home key
of the instrument.
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unisonoric
|
Presenting the same note on both
press
and draw
.
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wet tuning
|
Tuning paired reeds which sound for a
single note some small interval apart to create an audible beat or vibrato.
E.g., if two reeds sounding at once are tuned 4 Hz apart, there will be
a 4 Hz vibrato between the two.
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