Livenka (music)

Description

• The livenka is a unisonoric instrument, meaning that each button produces the same tone, regardless of the direction of the bellows.
• The right-hand buttons play the notes of the obikhodnyy pitch set, which may also be thought of as a series of overlapping Mixolydian modes.
• The left-hand levers play intervals of thirds or fourths, so that adjacent levers operated simultaneously will play a triad.
• The livenka has a very long bellows, when compared to other accordions—sometimes having forty folds, and extending to over a meter in length.

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