I don't know what kind of rope you are smoking but you are all wrong about button number 1. Just because you don't us it doesn't mean it has no use. All this kind of harks back to the false idea that the regesters are just for tunning. Man won't we ever get it right. This type of accordion is not only used for cajun music.

Hal,

I can’t tell you why it’s like that .. but ..

I *really* like that first button where it is

I've been composing a few tunes that exploit
that anomaly. It’s really handy in riffs where
you don’t want the pitch to change with bellows
direction. (We’re talking about the lowest pitch, right?)

But then again, I’m not a Cajun

Merci!

--Big

it was for tuning.
but who tunes by ear any more?

to me, it wastes a button.

you already have the same pitch on the pull,
on the left hand
bass button.

you can get it changed, but it does require new
reed pairs, which do have to be ordered.

i am currently having a new C accordion made
by mr larry miller, and he is doing just that.

my Bflat box, made by him also, has this
modification, but the note is G not A.

and i like it that way!

wle.

I think the reason most people dont use the number one button is due to the fact that many never take the time to learn how to incorporate it into their playing. I can off hand think of two songs in which Aldus and Octa both use the number one button. Its a pretty essential button for some creole and zydeco players too.I know a few other players like jason bergeron, joel martin, mitchell cormier and his father nolan cormier love to work it into their songs. I like to use it as much as possible.

John

Hey, it's not wasting a button if I only got 9 of em. :)

hey, i should have had him make an 11 or 12 button
for me..

i do have a 12 hole harmonica that extends the
normal scale and octaves 2 more positions, on the high
end.

gets a little weird beyond where a 10 button /hole
would stop but the extra range is nice.


wle.