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A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Accordion bass

Musical Instrument
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The bass section of an accordion, producing low-pitched notes via buttons or keys

Detailed Definition
The accordion bass provides rhythmic and harmonic foundation in folk and popular music; in poetry, its deep, resonant tones evoke nostalgia, migration, or working-class life, often symbolizing the emotional undercurrent beneath melodic expression in lyrical narratives.
Example
Example in poetry:
The deep thrum of the accordion bass anchors folk ballads like a heartbeat in poetic meter; In verse depicting Parisian street scenes, poets contrast the bright treble with the rumbling accordion bass as shadow to light; A poem might describe the accordion bass buttons as “knuckles of time” pressing rhythm into memory; The steady pulse of the accordion bass in polkas becomes a metaphor for resilience in diaspora poetry; In lyrical descriptions of dance halls, the accordion bass provides the “earth beneath the feet” of swirling couples; Poets use the accordion bass to evoke nostalgia—its low notes like roots tethering the melody to home soil.
Additional Notes
Accordion bass refers to the left-hand manual of the accordion, typically used for playing chords and bass notes; in poetic contexts, it can symbolize foundational or rhythmic undercurrents—its mechanical yet resonant quality contrasts with the melodic right hand, offering rich metaphorical potential for duality or hidden support structures.
Also Known As
Accordion left-hand bass bass buttons
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