ANI.PAS - Accordion BLOG: Prologue – How it started !
Unplentiful interval after I bought a China‘s made accordion with 48 basses. For me a amount to misstep. After that I went into a music purchase to take home some advices – a B fumble, because that department store sold me a “Parrot”, out of correspondence. Also the following instruments did not stumble on with my concurrence. With that incident, I sold all of them, but my claims of grade rose with each new obtaining. Today I put forward to convention with my „Excelsior“ type 304 BC in put out of all the other also up to date models. But this selection does not interdict me from my ardour for old resp. older accordions / harmonicas. I interest that amusement with my quiet who than was and still is indebted to state the many old accordions which we gathered through the years. An often very ill-behaved struggle, as most of the accordions showed the same signs of use, outer X-rated, internal damned dusty and sticked with old wax, studied by stamp and moths. Not to report the obtaining of autochthonous lanky-parts. Very often it was no more workable and so we had to pick up the parts from compare favourably with models. The most occupation however had to be done by cleaning of treble / bass-reeds and their covering with new responsive valves. An inconceivable awkward trade that had required many working hours. After completing however we were rewarded through the captivating temper emblem that happen from each of these precarious old instruments. Kurz danach kaufte ich mir ein Akkordeon mit 48 Bässen, ein totaler Missgriff. Danach ging ich in ein Musikgeschäft zur Beratung. Dort drehte man mir eine „Parrot“, die verstimmt war, an. Der 2. Missgriff – auch verkauft. Diesem chinesischen Akkordeon folgten andere Modelle, mit denen ich aber auch nicht zufrieden war. Von den meisten dieser Instrumente habe ich mich zwischenzeitlich jedoch auch wieder getrennt. Mit jedem neuen Kauf jedoch stiegen die Qualitätsanforderungen und die Kaufpreise. Heute ziehe ich zu reinen Übungszwecken eine Excelsior Typ 304 BC all den...