Keyboard Instruments and electrophones?!
Question: What are the similaraties and differences between accordion, carillon, celesta, clavichord, concertina, harmonium, harpsichord, keyboard, melodeon accordion, organ, and piano? In your opinio, which of these instruments is the most versatile and can play the widest range of music?
Answers: What are the similaraties and differences between accordion, carillon, celesta, clavichord, concertina, harmonium, harpsichord, keyboard, melodeon accordion, organ, and piano? In your opinio, which of these instruments is the most versatile and can play the widest range of music?
Without a doubt, the accordion is the most flexible, particularly if equipped with midi. As such it will do anything that the others will do plus more. There are many varieties of accordion and the freebass is preferred in some cases to the stradella bass which is what is commonly found in the US on piano accordions. The accordion, concertina and harmonium are free reed instruments. The others are not. Of note is that Roland is now making a completely electronic accordion, either chromatic or piano that will do almost anything that a keyboard can do, only better. Also it can switch key configurations electronically and can use its midi output to control external sound modules, drum machines, etc. A midi equipped accordion can play any style of music.