"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."
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Robert Davine Accordionist Robert Davine: A Conversation With Bruce Duffie (1992), WNIB Radio, Chicago
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Robert Davine
Robert Davine (born Aubrey Robert Davine, 5 April 1924 - 25 November 2001) was an American concert accordionist and Professor of Accordion and Music Theory at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music for over three decades. He has been cited as one of the first founders of a collegiate academic program in advanced accordion studies within the United States. His performances with international orchestras and chamber ensembles helped to foster the acceptance of the accordion as a legitima
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