Crane: arc and chevron

[frogspawn]

As my regular 55-button Crane has been in concertina hospital, I have been forced to get to grips with my 70-button Crane for the first time. I accumulated a second machine for precisely this eventuality. Although a superior model, it is also heavier, bulkier and currently stiffer, but one of its most obvious differences is that the buttons are in chevron rather than arc layout.

 

I can now confirm that moving from one layout to the other requires hardly any adjustment. The patterns look a lot different, but the actual deviation in the corresponding positions of the buttons seemed minimal. Perhaps, when I get the 55 back, I'll photo them both and superimpose the photos...

 

I did find the left-hand chords difficult to find at first, but melody on the right-hand side was no problem.