Hohner B/C Button Accordion

3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars | 8 ratings

Price: 0.99

Last update: 08-03-2024


Product Details

Release Date: 2012
Date first listed on Amazon: December 10, 2012
Developed By: Tradlessons.com
ASIN: B00AJYNEC8
Customer reviews:
3.6 out of 5 stars8 customer ratings

Developer info

  • [email protected]
  • http://www.tradlessons.com/HohnerMelodeon.html
  • More apps by this developer

Product features

  • Plays and sounds like a real Hohner Erica button accordion
  • Note name display option helps you learn your way around the button board
  • Practice anywhere in headphones or plug into an amplifier to play with your band

Product description

Hohner announces the introduction of a revolutionary new app:
The Hohner-B/C Double-Ray Black-Dot Button Accordion.

Modeled on the layout of Hohner's iconic B/C Double-Ray Black-Dot diatonic
accordion, this intuitive virtual instrument features a super responsive,
two-row fingerboard that plays and sounds like the traditional instrument.

The Hohner-B/C Double-Ray Black-Dot app allows musicians to practice scales and
tunes on-the-go. Headphones can be used for private practice, or the audio
output of the virtual accordion can be amplified by plugging into computer
speakers, or other sound enhancing devices.

Touch anywhere above the button board in the bellows or grill to toggle between push and pull of the bellows.

To help with learning the scales, players may show the note names on the large
white pearloid buttons.

This app is ideal for the beginning student or professional musician who needs
a simple carry-on companion to compliment his or her actual accordion. While
not meant to be a replacement for a real accordion, the app is a convenient and
easy tool for practicing, learning, or teaching.

B/C is one of the two popular tunings used for Traditional Irish Music.

Download all five key combinations: Hohner-B/C, Hohner-C#/D, Hohner-D/G,
Hohner-G/C, and Hohner-C/F.

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Technical details

Size: 5MB
Version: 1.3
Developed By: Tradlessons.com
Application Permissions: ( Help me understand what permissions mean )
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
Minimum Operating System: Android 4.0
Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute

Top reviews from the United States

Rick H
4.0 out of 5 stars ok
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2020
good
Samudra
5.0 out of 5 stars another reason to get up in the morning
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2014
I not only LOVE the Hohner B/C Button Accordion app, I practically ADORE it. I’m about to explain why, but if you already understand the button box or the concertina, the first paragraphs will be redundant. If you’re new to them, you probably need this explanation.

I’ve played whistle for 30 years, but swore after messing around with a friend’s accordion that I’d never even ATTEMPT a squeezebox. On a whistle, covering SEQUENTIAL holes produces a scale; on a piano, pressing the appropriate ivories and ebonies IN SEQUENCE produces a scale. On a button box, the same button will produce one note on a pull and a different note on a push, and just about the time you start to think that the push produces a lower note than a pull on the same button—i.e., just about the middle of the row—the whole thing flips polarities and turns your world upside down. TOTALLY illogical.

Ten years ago I was given a Hohner three-row button box by someone who’d had it on a shelf for 10 years after it was given to HIM by someone else who’d had it on a shelf for 10 years. Fifteen months ago I probably had a concussion, but whatever it was, it changed the way I hear music and language; the difference is hard to explain, but after a year of learning more Arabic by listening to music videos than from any course I ever took (and I’m a grammarian!), I suddenly found myself trying to play this old Hohner I knew NOTHING about, not even what keys it was in. Trying to figure that out with pitch pipe and paper was useless; but if I just closed my eyes and pushed on this and pulled on that, bits of tunes I know somehow started appearing—and reappearing, too! So I checked on patching the holes in the bellows. Duct tape didn’t work. Replacing the bellows cost $300, too much for an instrument that isn’t the B/C box I want for Irish music. A new box costs at least $1200. And I desperately NEEDED a new computer.

Three days ago I got the new Kindle Fire 8.9 HDX. Two days ago, I found this app.

OMG, I have a new computer AND a B/C box for less than five hundred.

Kindles, of course, even the new ones, do not have bellows; this is the reason I can fit my accordion into my purse, and when I attach my earphones, can practice while I wait for my prescription at Walgreen's without anyone hearing how bad I am. To “fake” the bellows, these Hohner apps replace PUSH and PULL with the left-hand actions of TOUCH and DON’T TOUCH. That’s cool, but it doesn’t create the numerous physical connections that let a real box teach you how to play it, the connections between PUSH/PULL and right-hand action, between PUSH/PULL and the sound of a specific button, between PUSH/PULL and breathing (which turns out to be more important to the accordion than I expected). Without all that immediate feedback, learning from my mistakes takes longer, because the learning moves from breath, ear, and body back to the linear mind. But that’s a double-edged sword as well: tap the question icon and the names of the notes appear on the keys; go from DON’T TOUCH/PULL to TOUCH/PUSH, and the names on the keys change. So with the note names on, what I lose in physical learning I gain from the logic of the instrument finally becoming visible.

Seriously missing are the left-hand keys, but I figure I should learn the right hand and the PUSH/PULL first anyway. By that time I should have decided if I want to terminate this love affair or marry an accordion. I guess I COULD be missing something crucial by not working with left-hand keys from the beginning, but until some musician who knows more about the squeezebox than I know tells me so, I’m just thrilled with Hohner for providing this app, with Kindle for being compatible, and with Amazon for putting them together. Life is good!
Matt49
3.0 out of 5 stars and it's fun to play around with
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2015
This gadget has answered some questions I have had about chromatic scales on button boxes, and it's fun to play around with. If I could get the feeling of the bellows into this app I would surely give it a five star.
Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tool
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2013
We wanted to buy a B/C accordion for playing Irish music. Thought we could test drive on a few tunes on this little app. Experiment went well. We just bought our new b/c accordion. For real and love the rich tone of the real thing.

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