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Chromatic Accordion

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Chromatic Accordions

AccordionLab
(http://acclab.com)
The chromatic button accordion is a mystery to many piano accordionists. In reality, a
chromatic accordion plays the same note on either a push and pull, just like a piano
accordion.
A chromatic treble keyboard has a logical and smart design – the buttons/notes are
arranged in minor thirds along the length of the keyboard, and in half steps going across
on the diagonal, thus at least 3 rows of buttons are needed. A chromatic accordion treble
keyboard may have 1, 2, or 3 redundant rows for closeness and easy reach, so there is
more than one way to finger a scale. The bass side has one of the systems used on piano
accordions - most typically the Stradella, or some variation of free bass systems.
In a 5-row chromatic accordion, two of its 3 basic rows are duplicated. Also, there may
be a few non-functioning buttons on either end to fill out the pattern on the keyboard.
There are two commonly used layouts for the chromatic accordion, the B-system and the
C-system. The C notes usually are in the first row for the C-System and in the third row
for a B-System. In a B-system, the white and black keys look like slash symbols while a
C-System’s keys look like back slashes.

Grill and Switches Side Grill and Switches Side

1 ½ step 1 ½ step

Full step
Full step Half step Full step Full step Half step

1 ½ step 1 ½ step

B-SYSTEM C-SYSTEM

The B-System is most widely used in the East Europe and Russia while the C-System is
said to been seen in the West part of Europe.
Some Free Bass accordions follow a similar design for their left hand buttons layout.

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C- System fingering:

B-System

Book:
Learn to Play the B and C Button Accordion by P.J. Heron

(info@acclab.com)

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