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  • Re: Upgrade or Sideways Step?
  • hypnotist: Well I ended up buying a 96 bass Weltmeister with 11 Treble Regiesters and 5 bass Registers. And without doubt this is a step forward, the overhaul action of the accordion is vastly sepe
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  • ebay seller Lower "B" Treble Key Problem
  • Well I bought a immaculate 96 bass Weltmeister with 11 Treble Registers and 5 bass, from the well known ebay seller in Bulgaria. It arrived in 7 days with a weekend in between and was packaged very
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  • Re: Upgrade or Sideways Step?
  • Well I ended up buying a 96 bass Weltmeister with 11 Treble Regiesters and 5 bass Registers. And without doubt this is a step forward, the overhaul action of the accordion is vastly seperior to the
  • Last post by hypnotist
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  • Re:left hand in a band
  • well. i had a ruff day at work and ya made me laugh out loud- my wife thinks I've gone around the bend- i'll have to try that 1 strap thing blowing out the reeds- the best thing about getting old is y
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  • Re: Unwanted drone
  • Edward is right on. Just wanted to add info about tone chamber- as he said it's hard to get to. Two sets of reeds are put in a box and face perpendicular to the 2 sets outside of the tone chamber. If
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  • Re: Giulietti Chromatic - Tone Generator?
  • Looks good to me! Nice job.
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  • Re: Giulietti Chromatic - Tone Generator?
  • Here is before: http://www.mattprouty.com/Giulietti1.JPG Here she is finished! I replaced many of the buttons as the C and F's were scored horribly by someone in the past. You could feel the
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  • Re: Unwanted drone
  • Thank you very much for the quick reply! :) When I get the time i'll attempt to open it up see what I can do (probably over weekend). I'll let you know how it goes!
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  • Re: Unwanted drone
  • this sounds like a valve is not seating correct, or that the pad has come loose, take off the grill & look at it, also some accordions have a small rubber pad under the felt pad, that could have c
  • Last post by edward12
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  • Unwanted drone
  • Hi I have recently purchased a royal standard 120 piano accordion off ebay and although the sound is brilliant i'm not sure everything is right :( . Even when I press no keys or buttons I still he
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  • Re:left hand in a band
  • That`s the beauty of a Roland or MIDI . You can pretty much eliminate the bass player in a combo. Actually you can pretty much eliminate the drummer and horn too. Who needs em? Of course this approa
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  • Re:left hand in a band
  • I noticed that too. And also the guitar player when he's alternating note/chord note/chord when playing backup. When I was younger and played rock tunes, I always treated my left hand like it was the
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  • Re: good repair shop near western MA?
  • Thanks Steve. I appreciate your kind words. I have gained a lot of repair experience this past year and my confidence level is up. I won`t ever be as good as some of the great accordion repair guys ou
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  • Re: good repair shop near western MA?
  • Geo knows his stuff- I'd trust him with my box- steve
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  • Re: good repair shop near western MA?
  • Call me. I`m located in Pittsfield. 413 443 6860 Ask for John
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  • Re: Help, many questions!
  • Nathan, Yes what you are hearing is arpeggios of the chords. There are many ways of playing them. It sounds impressive in the background, but with practice you can get good at it. One example that wou
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  • good repair shop near western MA?
  • I finally have some money set aside to have my accordions worked on.I have four zon-rio accordions, two model 32S and two 32M that have a few notes in obvious need of some leather and tuning. I usuall
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  • Re: Victoria XB 402
  • That particular model looks to be a costly one. I`d be very dissapointed if the sound was anything but superb. If the sound isn`t that good I`d have to think it`s more to do with the tuning than any
  • Last post by geo
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  • Re: Victoria XB 402
  • the older boxes by most brands are always very good- richard galliano plays a victoria as does a good friend of mine. you can't judge an instrument by a couple boxes- each company has so many levels-
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  • Re: Make your own reed tools, cheap.
  • kudos gentleman- like i always say if you want to play a sqeezebox, ya have to be creative-- steve
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