Hi Kombrig,

Thank you for the lay-out of the LH buttons of your Bayan. As you say it is the same lay-out as a piano accordion has. Your recommendation to press chord buttons for only half the time, confirms what I have been doing mostly.

In your arrangements, the accordion is the solo instrument. I am using the accordion for the accompaniment of a soprano voice. The backing track must be supportive of the soloist, with clear cues, proper expression of harmonic structure and as part of it, a good bass line. The LH chords on the accordion are fixed in construction, not flexible. I have mostly dropped the LH of the accordion now and have replaced it with an acoustic guitar. I always use a double bass.

Best wishes,

Herbert