We receive inquiries nearly every day from people searching for information on an older accordion - usually either from a relative's estate, or that they bought from a yard sale, etc. Before placing an order on our website, click here for more info. For instance, there is a Scandalli with hand made reeds and musette tuning for a little over $1k.We are currently closed to the public, but are doing limited shipping of orders and local deliveries.
Higher quality instruments will have hand-made reeds (that sound nicer) with a tone chamber.Ĭheck out this website: they always seem to have interesting looking used accordions. You can also find accordions with fewer piano keys and bass buttons, and these instruments also have fewer reed sets - limiting your choice of sound combinations.
In a student model the reeds would probably be machine made, and there will be no tone chamber (something that mellows the tone of 2 sets of reeds - good for jazz). Just to give you a sense of what most accordions consist of, your standard piano accordion has 41 piano keys and 120 bass buttons, with 4 sets of treble reeds and 5 sets of bass reeds. I suppose it really comes down to what your intentions are for such an instrument - to play around with, or to use for gigs. even if a (naive) seller tells you all the buttons work, etc.Īn accordion from the 50s could certainly still be playable today, but it would be a miracle if it was in top condition (regarding tuning, keyboard action, and bellows compression). When you say the condition is good, are you basing it on photos from an on-line bid or have you actually seen (and played/heard) the instrument? I would reserve some caution against buying sight unseen: an accordion can look cosmetically fine on the outside, but inside might be a different story. N427/54 is sort of a cryptic name and I'm guessing refers to the serial number, since the numbers themselves don't mean anything to an accordionist. Scandalli accordions are made in Italy, and they make pro models too. I'm guessing it's a student (beginner) model based on other Silvana models I saw on the web.
This is an older model, as Scandalli doesn't appear to make it anymore.
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