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Since the accordion has so many attributes that are conducive to chamber music, it is particularly suitable for this medium of expression. In essence, the accordion has all of the prerequisites essential to small ensemble involvement: sustaining power, dynamic sensitivity, articulated response, timbre, and texture variance, and compatibility of sound with string and wind instruments.

— Robert Davine

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The accordion fun? ....Sometimes. Not all the time. I find that it can be a frustrating instrument.

Robert Davine Accordionist Robert Davine: A Conversation With Bruce Duffie (1992)

There are instruments known as free-bass instruments, or sometimes called the bassetti, where you have totally complete single pitches, simply like you would in the right hand, and you form your own chords. And you have a greater range in the left hand, some three to four-and-a-half octaves.

Robert Davine Accordionist Robert Davine: A Conversation With Bruce Duffie (1992)

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