B/C Bass

[Stuporman]

I'm going to be getting a new accordion, and have a choice of Burke or McComiskey bass layout. I'm not even playing basses yet. Does anyone have any opinions, , advice, or information about the advantages or disadvantages of either? Thanks.

[TaylorMartin]

I'm going to be getting a new accordion, and have a choice of Burke or McComiskey bass layout. I'm not even playing basses yet. Does anyone have any opinions, , advice, or information about the advantages or disadvantages of either? Thanks.

I have the Joe Burke set-up on mine. The buttons are layed-out

d/d D/D g/g G/G
e/a E/A c/f C/F

The McComisky basses are (as I understand it)

g/d G/D c/g C/G
e/a E/A d/f D/F

As you can see, they are quite different even though they have the same basses. For instance, a chord change from d to g requires a button change on the Burke setup and a bellows change in the McConisky. I thought that the Burke would be easier to keep track of since four of the buttons are the same in both bellows directions.

Good Luck!

TM

[Fergmaun]

My dad has a Paolo Soprani accordion 3 voice 23 treble 2 row and 8 bass

The layout for the bass keys on this box is

E/A G/D Chords
E/A G/D Basses
C/F C/G Chords
C/F C/G Basses

This link has more on bass layout. http://www.red-bean.com/~noel/keyboard- ... YOUTS.html

Cheers

Fergus

[StevieJ]

Here's the bass layout of my older Cairdin B/C, using the same perspective as Fergus did.

I wonder if this is the "McComiskey" layout. It seems very odd to have D paired with F as on Taylor's diagram.

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(Chin)
Press/Draw
Inside	Outside

E/A		G/D	Chords
E/A		G/D	Basses
C/F		D/G	Chords
C/F		D/G	Basses

(Knee)

[Ro3b]

Yeah, Taylor's diagram is correct. It's just the Paolo layout with the inside pressing C retuned to D. It seems strange to have the D and F together like that, but in practice it works fine.