Four Tunings for accordions compared

Demonstration of four accordion tunings:  Straight, Swing, Mild and strong vibrato.  I have chosen four similar sounding accordions so you can compare the different vibrato rates.  Each note on these accordions has two reeds.  One reed is tuned slightly higher than the other to give a beat or vibrato. If one A is tuned to 440 Hz  and the other tuned to 446Hz there is a vibrato rate of 6Hz.  This is sometimes called a musette sound, as the origin was accordion players in Paris playing along with the musette bagpipes which were somewhat out of tune.

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