Wet Tuning - Do you need it? 

Jim, you made my day! What accordion do you play?

Hi, I had a Zero Sette 120 double Cassotto which I sold recently because I found it very heavy to use, although it has a beautiful sound. And I am currently playing a smaller Paulo Soprani Professional Folk 96. But I am looking for another, and your advice has given me lots of ideas - thank you!

Thank you! Which tuning do you prefer?

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Thank you for your comment! I'm glad you found it useful. Let me know if you have any other questions.

So nice of you. Thank you!

Which one are you getting?

Thank you for watching. I'm glad you found it useful. I'm planning to add more to this series.

I'm glad you found it useful!

Thank you very much for your kind words.

Thank you Alfred. That is how I felt as well. That's why I thought this might benefit beginners.

@@BreezyBellows and you are right. Thank you for your efforts!

I'm glad you found it useful

Thank you Anand. Feel free to check out other videos in the channel

Thank you Howard!

Hello Varon, I'm glad you found it useful. Do you play accordion as well?

Thank you Anwar!

The dry tuned violin is my choice too

Thank you Ken!

Thank you! Are you looking to buy an accordion? Or do you already have one?

@@BreezyBellows I have an old accordion back in Poland. I played like 30 years ago. I currently play piano but wanted to get back playing accordion. I need to fix the one I have but was thinking maybe I get buy one or ship my old one that need to be repaired.

I guess it should be because of the tuning.

You bring up a very important topic. 4 different things can make accordions big and small. 1) the length of the keyboard 2) number of keys 3) number of bass buttons 4) number of reed blocks This video is only about the Reed blocks. I've made another video on the size of the keyboard (compact vs full size keys). There are other advantages to playing full size accordions. A larger bellows gives more air to with with so you don't have to switch directions too often. Here's the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0bXgN4RhEMw.html I'm making another video about number of bass buttons.

Thank you very much!

I'm glad you liked it

How big is your Accordion?

96 bass, 11+5 registers

Different repair techs do it differently. I've spoken with a few repair professionals. Some try to keep the number of beats constant for every key. Theoretically, I believe this makes sense. Some pick a certain number of cents for the lower notes, then use a smaller number of cents for the middle section and an even smaller number for the high notes. Do understand this better, one needs to understand how cents and beats are different. You hear a beat when two reeds have a frequency difference. For example, if A is tuned at 440Hz and the other A is tuned at 445 Hz, there will be 5 beats per second (because the second reed vibrated 5 times more every second). So if you go off of beats, the calculation is very simple. You can keep the number of beats the same for ever single key by timing the second reed 5 Hz higher. Cents are different from beats. You get one cent by diving the beats between a note and the next note (half step) into 100 equal parts. For example if A above middle C is 440 Hz, the A# will be 466.164 Hz. So one cent is dividing 26.164 into 100 equal parts. So one cent is 0.26 Hz at A 440. So the 5 Hz beat difference is a whopping 20 cents. But that holds only for that note. If you were to use the same 20 cents at A 880hz, it will be almost twice as wet because the number of beats would've doubled.

I assume you play a piano accordion. For German polkas, a wet tuned LMMM will work. There is a strike of accordions called Alpine accordions that are commonly used for this type of music (based on what I know). They have a distinctive look with a glossy wooden body and a shiny metal grill.

I've had 5 reed (treble side) accordions that already feel like a tank. Why would anyone want the 6th reed on the treble side? The five reed accordions have a LMMMH reed configuration on the treble side. That covers both LMMH and LMMM functionality (although the dry tuned MM violin register will be missing). That could be a reason why one would want the 6th reed. Another option is to have two low reeds (one inside chamber and one outside). I've seen that in an excelsior before (art van damme model). But again, that will be a monster that will break both your bank and your back.

@@BreezyBellows The . . . . "thought" . . . . that I had on an accordion with 6 choirs of reeds on the right hand wouldn't have involved any more musette reeds, in or out of the chamber. Were I to win the lottery---and therefore be able to approach a world-class accordion builder with my nonsense---my request would have involved more octaves of range in the right hand. The 4-choir accordions most professionals use have two middle ranks that organists call 8' octave (the unison and the musette), with a lower octave (16': the "bassoon") and a higher octave (4': the "piccolo"). My thought was to add another octave even lower (32') and another octave even higher (2'). Instead of LMMH, L2L1MMH1H2. The question then becomes would the world-class accordion builder even finish hearing me out on what I wanted . . . . or would the physics involved tell him to laugh at me, before throwing me off the premises. Were he willing to give it a shot, I stand my ground on the resulting monstrosity weighing at least 60 pounds (possibly 80) and costing me $70,000 (if it didn't cost $150,000).

@@Sublibrarian11918333 one way to get around your idea is to get this done one a digital accordion. On a Roland, you can pick and accordion sound with LMMH and pick two orchestral sounds that have the L1 and H2 equivalent of what you were proposing. It won't be real reeds, but it will probably be the only way I think an idea like this can see the light of day. In addition to the weight, the dimensions on the instrument will make it impractical. It will be projecting out about three more inches (at the least). This will make the instrument feel even heavier because of moving the center of gravity away from the body. In addition to that, it will make it harder to wrap your hands around the larger cabinet to reach the bass buttons.

@@BreezyBellows It is a fairly goofy pipe-dream.

@@Sublibrarian11918333 what's life without goofy ideas!

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