Chromatic Button Accordion (B System) note layout versus Piano Keyboard 

This is fine and very well explained! good job! I give this link to the people who make me ask questions about Chromatic keyboards! Best regards, Paul.

It kills me that it makes way more sense than a piano keyboard but it's infinitely less popular

This was very easy to understand when you explained

Well explained. Of course the keys on a piano accordion are narrower than on a piano so slightly compact. I used to play a 120 base piano accordion but it was pretty heavy. I can see the advantage of the the button accordion once you get used to the layout.

Incidentally, I discovered this huge advantages as well. Yet, for people used to the conventional, zebra piano layout relearning will be the greatest problem. Also, if you want to mechanically convert the former to this B or C-system uniform Kbd. it's virtually impossible. In this case the Janko is our only salvation! The thing is I am planing to convert my Tyros 3 to Janko and that's why my head is buzzing... :)

Great! Thanks.

You can also compare it to a Piano Accordion since the Treble Keyboard is the same.

Hi! What is the width o the piano keys? What is the diameter of the accordion buttons? And what is the spacing between the buttons (either the size of the gaps, or the distance between button centers)?

My 41 key 120 bass piano accordion has 41 keys in a small space too. The keys are just less wide than on the piano.

I,ll watch out for that Les . Now if you haven,t done so your next task is to play parts on the bass side . I start one of my tunes a Scottish flower Waltz with bass solo on the C sys box. An old friend use to play sections of Blaze Away on the bass I couldn't,t do it but he had. Played the P accordion from he was a kid and he,s late 80s now.

Hello Les keep up the good work on these great instruments . You,ll prob. know the diff. between B and C systems is the 1st and 3rd row . The second row is the same on both , 1st row on yours is 3rd on mine and 1st on mine is 3rd on yours . I,m not expert on these boxes , some experts will say that if your tunes have lots of cords then C sys. has advantage because of our hand shape ,if there are lots of rapid single notes then your B sys has the advantage. I can not comment as I have only played the C sys.

My old Hohner Accordion is playing different notes if I pull or push the bellows. Is that a completely different system? I just bought it and I haven't learnt it yet.