Abstract:
A reed accordion has a set of note generators each coupled to a respective key and is connected through a plurality of tone filters to an output. Each filter corresponds to a respective organ voice and is controlled by a respective tab which disconnects its filter from a bus (otherwise common to all filters) when actuated and thereby renders it operative. A plurality of registration program cards removably received in multicontact sockets on the instrument each carry a registration program network which is connectable through a respective registration switch to selected filters such that actuation of this switch will automatically cut in selected filters by disconnecting them from the bus. Each card bears two registrations in the form of conductors printed on its two faces so that simple scratching-through of a conductor programs that network for the respective organ voice, allowing the user to establish his own organ-voicing programs. A further switch, in one position, permits the accordion treble shifts to operate without preprogrammed organ-voicing and, in another position, provides programmed organ voicing for each treble shift.