Re: Piccolo vs Mussete


"GINO" <hardcorechicano2007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ive heard both Piccolo an Mussete accordions but what would be the
mechanical difference in them?
Is it the way the reeds or set in the box or is it the actual tunnig
itself?
Also a friend of mine wants to know if his 4 reeded diatonic box can
be Mussete tunned, is this possible?
I know that the piano an cba can be Mussete tuned but Ive never heard
of a diatonic being made this way.
Usually Ive heard of the diatonic boxes being named gfc, ead, adg an
so on....but never Mussete or Piccolo.


This may be a result of confusion between the erms French Musette and
musette. To have French Musette you have to have 3 sets of reeds tuned in
the same octave range. One set is tuned straight and one set is tuned sharp
and one sett is tuned flat. The 3 sets referred to in French musette are the
so-called Clarinet range. there is usually a 4th set tuned an octave lowere
called the bassoon range. the straight set is tuned with the bassoon set and
the other 2 sets are sharp and flat respectively to strengthen the tremolo.
A 4 sets of treble reeds accordion may have LMMM with bassoon an 3 clarinet
sets or LMMH with a bassoon set, 2 clarinet sets, and a piccolo set in an
octave higher range than the clarinet. Then you can't have real French
musette, because you don't have 3 clarinet sets, although you could still
tune the 2 clarinet sets with tremolo, and have musette; it just wouldn't
meet the definition of French musette, even if the accordion sounded ever so
French..

A diatonic accordion can be tuned musette, as long as it has at least 2 sets
of reeds in the same octave range to create the tremolo, which most of them
do have. It could only have French musette if there were 3 sets of reeds in
the same octave range.


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