| accordions.com A comprehensive site | Peterson Tuners Stroboscopic tuners, cents/frequency chart |
| Hohner Accordions.
www.matth-hohner-ag.de |
Accordion Spares (USA) Deffner, New York. Distributor of 'Accordion repairs made easy' by J.Reuther. E-Mail |
| Thierry Benetoux. An interesting
Frenchman with a book to sell on accordion repairs. www.musicforaccordion.com/inform/benetoux |
Accordion Spares (UK)
Ask for Terry. www.the-music-room.com |
| Accordion Spares.(EU) www.akkordeonservice.de |
Accordion Spares (EU) Sadly this helpful gentleman no longer trades. www.accordeon.nl |
| Reed Valves for sale. (EU) www.ha-vent.de |
Accordion Makers Resource site. (Does
accordions the hard way - he makes them!) www.19larchclose.freeserve.co.uk |
| PC based tuners and spectrum analysers Hitsquad | Here's a PC based accordion tuner from
the Netherlands which is definitely worth a look at. It can 'listen'
to up to three reeds at once and show their tuning! http://www.dirksprojects.nl/index.php?Button=0&Page=Tuner/accordion_tuner.php |
Hohner Atlantic Musette 1V
This is another fine accordion from the Atlantic series made by Hohner in the 1950s and 60s.
It is four voice and arranged LMMM. The musette is probably slightly wetter/wider on this
example than it was in its original form.
Two design features make it special. One is that the body work is all metal (a lighter alloy)
which has overall weight advantages and the second is that a roller blind like mechanism is fitted
under the treble grill and has the effect of muting the reed sound. It is particularly effective
when the straight tuned reeds are selected. The resulting sound is round and mellow
and strongly resembles a conventional 'cassotto' accordion.
On this clip both 'wet' and 'dry' sounds are used:- It sounds like this.
A Scandanavian Waltz. On MMM musette. It sounds like this.
Some hornpipes. On MMM musette. They sound like this.