One other feature that hasn't yet come up...if I recall correctly, having seen one of these on an old upright at the National Music Museum in Vermillion SD...is that the layout is much like that of a concert button accordion. There are places in Europe where the button accordion is much preferred, but in most of the world it seems the piano accordion is more often found, possibly for similar reasons to the conventional piano keyboard. Somewhat related is a Galpin Society Journal article from the late '50s, I think, that described an instrument called "The Logical Bassoon," which, as any bassoon player will tell you, is an oxymoron! It was operated by solenoids...the thumb picked out which octave was to be played and the fingering was then the same in all octaves. As I understand it, the problem was that the sound of the instrument was also the same in all octaves, rendering it less than useful as a substitute for a real bassoon! So much for logic.... Stan Ryberg Barrington IL jstan40 at sbcglobal.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061225/8afd0ed8/attachment.html
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