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http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/found this in a search for the written range of the accordion, and it seems to be a very good site. the dictionary seems comprehensive, and the Appendix has some terrific charts and references. thought it might be of interest to some. 
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Thanks from me and several of my more musically talented friends which will receive the link momentarily
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eta, not many people can say they're looking for the written range of the accordion with a straight face. Heh... thanks in advance for the link. I'll go have a look-see now.
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Oh! I got to hear my favorite (there's another one of those unmodifiables, isn't it?) (I nearly put my very favorite) instrument: the hammer dulcimer. Thanks, eta--there isn't anything that makes a prettier sound.
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Jackie and all hammered dulcimer lovers, http://www.allroadsleadhome.com the website and title of the most recent CD by Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer and Bryan Thomas double bass, is wonderful, eclectic and virtuosic. They were traveling through our region a few weeks ago and I was lucky enough to see them in concert in a little barn. I was surprised at how well this unusual pairing of voices works. No, I get no percentage, 'just a friendly recommendation.
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...in a search for the written range of the accordion.
Does it also list the sounding range?
A safe listening range?
The tossing range?
(Thanks for the link, BTW)
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Does it also listhehe. oh, the poor accordion.  perhaps I should explain... I am writing some of the arrangements for an album of Israeli music that Counterpoint is recording next spring, and, never having written for accordion before, needed some help! in an aside, if you'll indulge me, we're recording an album of Latin American music this weekend, and what fun it is! we have a group of instrumentalists playing traditional instruments; the sikus, and quenas, and bombos, etc. what a great sound. so alive, and visceral. we finish the recording today. about 15 hours in the studio over two days... love it.
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... but no Brazilian music? 
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hi Anna... alot of what we're recording comes from this program: http://www.counterpointchorus.com/pages/luminarias.php. unfortunately, we're not recording the Villa-Lobos.  but we are doing Egbegi! the two big pieces(which use accompaniment[and aren't in the usual LA prog, because of that]) are selections from the Mass for Peace and Justice, by Ariel Ramirez(Argentina), and Romancero Gitano by Castelnuovo-Tedesco. (which I hope I spelled correctly, my music's in the car...) I wish we were doing the Latin American program in Albany, so you could hear that!
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the accordion
I don't know what it is about some instruments that inspires such opprobrium. The guitar is also an instrument much abused by amateurs. Likewise the violin.
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I've given the old "bees-wax box" a bear-hug (or two) a few times and I know it can be a very expressive instrument... but "uum-pup-pah" seems to be the sound most keep making with it. ********* Although mostly a completely diffferent instrument, this guy knew how to get honey from a 'box of wax'... http://www.piazzolla.org/sounds/
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Thanks, musick, for the music. I'm listening to him now. What did you mean by his box's being a completely different kind?
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I believe that Piazzolla played a bandoneon: http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textb/Bandoneon.html(might take a while to load, there are several QT movies of the bandoneon in action...) Counterpoint just recorded a tango by Piazzolla, Verano Porteņo. wonderful stuff!
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