The traditional accordion of choice where I live is the melodeon, a diatonic button accordion which I believe is unisonoric too. I'm not sure because I've never actually played one.
I've just learnt that there's going to be a melodeon making course in March. I was quite tempted by this as I would love to know more the insides of accordions. Unfortunately I don't really have the skills. One day maybe...
Link: Melodeon Marking Course
What do you mean by unisonoric? Does that mean same reed configuration on the push and the pull? Every melodean I've seen is set up more or less like a diatonic harmonica.
Posted by: mister anchovy | January 18, 2007 at 02:41 AM
No, it's bisonoric -- different notes on the same button on push and pull, on both treble and bass. The one-row melodeon has treble that's very like a harmonica, as the other poster suggests.
There's lots of stuff about melodeons, including keyboard layouts (which do vary quite considerably), at http://www.melodeon.net . Which is one of John Spiers' sites, though he no longer posts himself.
Posted by: Alison Scott | January 18, 2007 at 07:57 AM
Funnily enough bisonoric is what I meant. Not sure why I wrote unisonoric.
The forums on melodeon.net are well worth checking out, by the way.
Posted by: Squeezyboy | January 21, 2007 at 08:57 PM