Talk:Free-bass system

To anyone noticing duplicate content in this article and the accordion article
The accordion article, due to its length, is currently being compartmentalized because of the indefinite nature of that instrument and the many different configurations it can be in. As such, this and other articles will be in use as soon as possible when they have been created and content converted to the new format. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Use in music
The free-bass accordion in classical music section might be better off in here, or if in a new separate page, it should also be referenced from here.

FoolesTroupe (talk) 08:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Construction tag
Removed as it looks ok at the moment. FoolesTroupe (talk) 08:07, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Categories: Keyboard instruments
I'm not sure this category is entirely correct, as the free-bass system does not have a keyboard, it has a buttonboard. Yes, the right-hand manual might have a keyboard, as in the free-bass piano-accordion, but it also might be a chromatic button accordion, in which it has no keyboards at all. I think two categories which come to mind are: free-reed instruments, and wind instruments. Henry Doktorski (talk) 04:09, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

First paragraph
"A free-bass system is a system of bass buttons on an accordion, arranged to give the performer greater access to playing melodies on the left-hand manual of the instrument and to forming one's own chords, by providing a buttonboard of single-note buttons with a range of three octaves or more, in contrast to the standard Stradella bass system which only allows bass notes (range of a major seventh) and preset major, minor, dominant seventh, and diminished chords. The term "free-bass system" refers to various left-hand manual systems that provide this functionality[1]:"

I think this could be written a little more clearly & accurately & concisely. I'll work on it as soon as I am able. It will take some thought. Henry Doktorski (talk) 04:16, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

In Russia
Don't know if this is important, and I don't have proper sources, so I'll just mention it in the comments.

In Russian bayans there is a distinction between entirely free bass systems (выборный), entirely stradella systems (готовый) and bayans where you can switch between the two (готово-выборный), which seems to be called "converter bass" in English. The first weren't as common and seem to have mostly been used for kids in music schools, for example this "Yunost" model, the second type were very common and were the standard kind that people played, the third type are the rule in high-end professional models, though some more amateur models have the switch as well (like the Rubins, Start, Tula-201, Kirovskiy). Esn (talk) 07:53, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Reference broken
Current reference [9] is broken. It links to a great page that has disappeared from the internet. But it is still available on archive.org. I hope that someone here can fix that and link to the archives page instead. Thanks! Dostl ba (talk) 21:01, 28 August 2018 (UTC)