Patent ID: 6946594

Claim:
A method for electronically reproducing the sound of an acoustic accordion provided with a number of reeds coupled with valves, the method comprising the steps of: storing in a memory of an electronic accordion sampled characteristic sounds produced by the vibration of respective reeds of the acoustic accordion; associating each stored characteristic reed sound with relevant keys of said electronic accordion such that at least one of the keys is associated with more than one of the stored characteristic sounds of single reeds; detecting air pressure provided by a bellows; continually detecting pressure on a key; and electronically reproducing the characteristic sound of the acoustic accordion upon pressing said key by generating electronically the sampled characteristic sound of single reeds associated with the pressed key including modifying the generation of the sampled characteristic sound of at least one of the single reeds associated with the pressed key based on the bellows air pressure independent of generating the sampled characteristic sound of at least one of the other reeds associated with the pressed key.