Accordions are available many shapes. Some have a bit of piano keyboard whereas others have a grid of black and white buttons set roughly within the form of a parallelogram. I’ve been fascinated by this “chromatic-button” structure for a very long time. I spotted that the buttons are staggered identical to the keys on a typewriter, and this perception someway was a blurry imaginative and prescient of an accordion constructed from a pair of Nineteen Eighties dwelling computer systems—these machines usually sported a built-in keyboard in a case large enough to type the 2 ends of an accordion. The thought was intriguing—however wouldn’t it actually work?
I’m an skilled
Commodore 64 programmer, so it was an apparent selection for me to make use of that machine for the accordion ends. As a retrocomputing fanatic, I wished to make use of classic C64s with minimal modifications reasonably than, say, gutting the pc circumstances and placing fashionable tools inside.