Melodeons and Accordions

Driven by my wonderful wife's love of the accordion I've been looking for some time at a project to build a similar type of electronic device.

First of all, I needed to do a bit of basic learning, so for the benefit of everyone:

Accordions are the general term, with the ones with the piano keys on the side usually referred to as accordions or piano accordions.




Melodeons are the ones with buttons and go with with the general name 'diatonic button accordions'.



Personally I prefer the look of melodeons and from the Make point of view the keys are appealing to be able to put into a case and wire up.