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Changing your accordion’s behavior

9.Changing your accordion’s behavior

Here are two settings you’ll probably change only once. But it’s nice to know that it exists in case you let a fellow accordion player from another country play your FR-2/FR-2b.

Treble Mode (only on the FR-2b)

Like for the accordion instrument itself, there are different varieties of chromatic (button-type) instruments, with differ- ent Treble button layouts. Your FR-2/FR-2b can simulate them.

Please look at the illustrations on page 23 to identify the set- ting you need. Pay attention to the note names (all Cs appear on a grey background) and look at how they are arranged, then make your selection. The numbers next to the letters refer to the octave. The numbers below the note names rep- resent the corresponding MIDI note numbers.

Here is how to select the desired setting:

(1)Switch off the FR-2/FR-2b by turning the [VOLUME] A knob all the way to the left (“POWER OFF”).

(2)Hold down [SET] and one of the following registers while switching the FR-2/FR-2b back on to select the desired setting.

VOLUME

POWER

OFF

1•	C-Griff Europe	4	B-Griff Fin
2	C-Griff 2	5	D-Griff 1
3	B-Griff Bajan	6	D-Griff 2

(3)Start playing.

(See pages 25 and 26 for the locations of the notes.)

You may have noticed that the Treble buttons are col-

ored white (for notes with- out alteration) and black

(notes with alteration, i.e.

#/b). This coloring doesn’t change when you select another system.

(You can, however, unscrew the buttons and

install the in the right places so as to make the white and black buttons correspond to the notes being played.)

The FR-2/FR-2b is supplied with additional white and black buttons. The white buttons come in two varieties: normal buttons and knurled buttons. The latter are usually used to indicate the “C” and “F” notes.

Bass & Chord Mode

This parameter allows you to specify the number of button rows for playing bass notes. The default is 2 bass rows and 4 chord rows. By selecting “3 Bs Rows”, you lose the “dim” chord buttons – but that may just be more convenient for you. See also the illustration on page 24.

There are four “3 Bs Rows” options: “A-7th” and “B-7th” mean that the 6th chord row plays seventh chords (“7”) with- out the fifth. In the case of a C7 chord, you therefore hear C- E-Bb (but not the G). “A-7th” and “B-7th” differ in the arrangement of the bass notes (see the illustration on

page 24).

The “A-5dim” and “B-5dim” options mean that those sev- enth chords don’t contain the root note. A C7 chord is sounded with the notes E-G-Bb (but not the C). “A-5dim” and “B-5dim” differ in the arrangement of the bass notes (see the illustration on page 24).

The “Bx-7th” option reverses the “B-7th” settings (from right to left).

(1)Switch off the FR-2/FR-2b by turning the [VOLUME] A knob all the way to the left (“POWER OFF”).

(2)Hold and pull down one or two of the following bass registers while switching the FR-2/FR-2b back on to select the desired setting.

]	[6]		[5]	[4]	[3]		[2]		[1]
	1 + 2•	2	Bass Rows			3	3	Bass Rows B-7th
	1	3	Bass Rows A-7th			4	3	Bass Rows B-5dim
	2	3	Bass Rows A-5dim			5	3	Bass Rows Bx-7th

(3)Start playing.

(See the tables below for the locations of the notes.)

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