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See Also: Accordion A diatonic button accordion is a type of Button Accordion where the Melody -side keyboard is limited to the notes of Diatonic Scales in a small number of Keys (sometimes only one). The Bass side usually contains the principal Chords of the instrument's key and the root notes of those chords. MELODEON There is some geographic disagreement over the terms ''button accordion'' and ''melodeon''. In England a bisonoric (different note on push and draw of the bellows) button accordion with one,two or three rows of buttons on the right hand (melody) side is likely to be called a melodeon. In Ireland a melodeon refers only to one-row instruments, while in the southern United States even these are called accordionsMallinson, Dave. ''The D/G Melodeon''. Cleckheaton, Yorkshire: mally.com (2002) ISBN 1899512012. Page 3.. The available notes on the melody side are based on different keys. For example, you could have a 1-row melodeon in the key of G. This would give you the notes G/A - B/C - D/E - F#/G spread over 4 buttons. The most common melodeons in existence now are the D/G box with 2 rows, used widely in English traditional music (particularly for the accompaniment of Morris Dancing ) and the B/C box used in Irish traditional music. Because the keys of the latter are a semitone apart, all the notes of the chromatic scale are in theory available (unlike the D/G box or others where the interval is a fourth.) There are many variations on these layouts, with 2½ row melodeons, accidentals and various options which players customise to suit their own style of music. The two-row melodeon is apparently limited by being able to play only in its two given major keys - most commonly D and G, and their associated minor keys of A and E. However tunes in the major keys of E and A can also be managed, and in practice most British and Irish traditional music, and north American music with these roots, strays little from this limited set of keys. The vast majority of the traditional repertoire can be played using just fourteen notes available on all two-row melodeonsMallinson, ''The D/G Melodeon''. Page 11.. Well known melodeon players currently recording include John Spiers (of Spiers And Boden and Bellowhead ), John Kirkpatrick , Andy Cutting (of Blowzabella ) and Tim Van Eyken . POLKA BOX {Link without Title} (Steirische Harmonika) or Slovenian style Box. Is very popular in the alpine region of Europe. This type of Boxes ware also made by Anton Mervar Button Accordion Manufacturer (1885-1942) Inducted on November 30, 1991 Man difference is the use of bigger Bass reeds (Helicon reeds). HYBRIDS Some diatonic button accordions (e.g.: , Trikitixa ) have a combination of the two types of action. REFERENCES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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