Price: $705.00
Scarlatti Rosso B/C Melodeon
23 treble buttons, 8 bass buttons. Bass stop to remove the thirds
Item ID: GX42006 Model No: ROSSO
- Product Features
- 2 treble voice and 3 bass voice. Fast quiet keyboard, Italian styling.
- Fitted with super durall Czech made reeds
- Comes with shoulder straps and carry bag
- Product Specifications
- Great beginners melodeon with good size buttons. Czech durall reeds
- Made in: China
- Model Number: ROSSO
- Top selling item
- Complete with Gig BagLinks to more Information
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Melodeon Information
Two row chromatics have the rows tuned a semitone apart. The first key quoted is the lower. B/C is most common but we do sometimes have C/C# and C#/D. Chromatic tuning is normal in Ireland and popular as well in Scotland.
Advice on Choosing Melodeons
Choosing your Melodeon
What tuning should I get?
Firstly you need to know what style of music you will mainly want to play, the most popular styles are given below, and each calls for a different tuning. Apart from the style you prefer, you should consider what key your friends use, so you can join in and learn from them, and the pitch of your voice. We would always recommend you to start on a two row.
- D/G is suited to English folk Music.
- B/C is the ...read the full article
China has been making melodeons since at least 1980. Our Scarlatti brand has two separate sources - the Scarlatti starter models look somewhat similar to the Hohner Erica model, but not as well finished. The new series of Rosso, Nero and Woods are made in a new workshop set up a few years back and we were impressed when we met them that the people there know all about reeds. We are using Italian reeds in the models from this factory.
