Rainer von Vielen playing a Roland digital V-Accordion at Heimatsound-Festival. The bank of electronic switches can change the accordion's sound, tone and volume.
A digital accordion is an electronic musical instrument that uses the control features of a traditional accordion (bellows, bass buttons for the left hand, and a small piano-style keyboard (or buttons) for the right hand, and register switches) to trigger a digital sound module that produces synthesized or digitally sampled accordion sounds or, in most instruments, a range of non-accordion sounds, such as orchestral instruments, pipe organ, piano, guitar, and so on. Digital accordions typically encode and transmit key presses and other input as Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) messages. Most digital accordions need to be plugged into a keyboard amplifier or PA system to hear their sounds.
Purely digital, reedless instruments are not to be confused with "accordion hybrids", which are a standard acoustic accordion with sensors for all the keys and buttons to interface with electronic sounds. This allows the instrument to be played totally acoustically, with no electronic sounds, or operated to just use the electronics, or used with a mix of acoustic and digital sounds. There are a myriad of sound combinations of acoustic and electronic sounds, which require a trained ear to play properly mixed sounds. These hybrids also require an amplifier and sound module, of which some models have said module mounted inside the acoustic instrument along with the reeds. (See Terminology below)
A digitalaccordion is an electronic musical instrument that uses the control features of a traditional accordion (bellows, bass buttons for the left...
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their Have You Ever Heard The Lovely Eggs? EP ("Have You Ever Heard A DigitalAccordion?"), was named XFM 'Single of The Week' by John Kennedy and subsequently...
of the Accordion in America. Jacobson, Marion. University of Illinois Press. 2012. p. 78-80 ebook ISBN 9780252093852Accordion Orchestra Accordion in America...
controllers. An accordion module, which is designed for use with a MIDI-equipped digitalaccordion, focuses on providing synthesized or sampled accordion sounds...
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quartet All Our Exes Live in Texas, in which she provides vocals and accordion. Outside of her solo career and her work with All Our Exes Live in Texas...
by Romani and Ukrainian music mixed with punk and dub, incorporating accordion and violin (and on some albums, saxophone). The band has appeared in several...
Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band. Federici started to play accordion when he was seven years old, which he learned from watching The Lawrence...
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