Buttons

Chromatic button accordion layout

Chromatic button accordion layout
  1. How are accordion buttons arranged?
  2. What are the notes on a button accordion?

How are accordion buttons arranged?

It uses columns of buttons arranged in a circle of fifths. Each diagonal column has, in order from the innermost to outermost buttons: The major third above (or minor sixth below, depending on which note) the root ("counter-bass")

What are the notes on a button accordion?

Diatonic button accordions are popular in many countries, and used mainly for playing popular music and traditional folk music, and modern offshoots of these genres.
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Distribution of notes on the keyboard and range.

ButtonPushPull
1CD
2EF
3GA
4C'B

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