These are most commonly available in a 2 row 8 bass combination the most common of which is the venerable Pokerwork (more correctly the Wiener 2915). If you want to play along with other people in the UK this is the one you want

The highest common combination but this is the most commonly used key combination for English traditional folk music. This is a really nice key which avoids some of the squeakyness you get with the D/G. The majority of Club accordions were made in this key combination as well. A good pitch to sing along with, again this was a very common key in Germany. Club accordions were made in this key combination as well A good low box to play, and transposed tunes sound great on these. An uncommon key but you get a great growly sound out of them. Tunes in this key tend to be played at the higher end of the keyboard. The lowest in tone popular for French tunes. you don’t need to understand any of it to bang out a tune, suffice to say that all of the keys listed are major keys Confusingly they start at C, and then go D G E F G A B.

Each major key consists of 7 notes in a rising scale (an octave). Music theory is deep and i don’t have the time or skill to explain it all. Any of these will make a great starter box, any tune played on one of these can be played on all of the others by pushing the exact same buttons (The complicated word for this is transposing) Two Row Keysīelow are the common fourth apart (sometimes called quint apart) musical key combinations, the first key listed is the outside row Each row is in it’s own key and these two keys will be 4 notes apart. These are effectively two one rows bolted together. The two row or two and a half row is the bread and butter of DBAs.

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