r/Accordion

How old is this accordion? Im thinking of dumping it, would it be worth keeping?

This video has been doing extremely well on tik Tok so I figured I'd post it here.

A partisan folk song I learned on honor of today's Liberation Front Day.

I purchased this old accordion for $150, it has a beautiful sound but it has a single broken reed that I did not discover until a week after I got it. I wanted to learn the accordion but I'm very poor and thought I had finally found a deal to get one. I feel scammed and shitty now. I'm thinking it would cost more to get it fixed than to buy a new one, but I suppose I just need to hear what I dread from an actual person. :(

:D enjoy!

Just looking to share, not for advice. Thanks.

Was looking forward to playing norteño or just Mexican music in general, which seems to be mainly played using FBbEb, but I came across the compadre, and I’ve seen people saying it’s a better version of the panther as well as people saying it’s indistinguishable from it and not worth the higher price, but in this case it’s the same price, and it just made me curious if tuning matters as much for a beginner.

Also came across that Weltmeister; is it any good? It says on Liberty Bellows that it’s made in Germany, and that seems to be a plus, but is it worth $300 more plus?

I have a Carmen 120 brass Key accordion and I found out I need to change out the reeds. How do I change the reeds for the piano part of a accordion. If I could get a video or something that would be great.

I decided to open up my accordion I got recently since the bass side was doing some funny stuff…….. and well……… how.

I don’t even understand how something like this happens

But aside from that, would it work if I bent everything back and re glued that foam piece on? Also why is there tape on it? Should I take that off? I’m also completely new to this, so is it the metal bit, or the foam bit that makes the noise? What’s the other one for?

Thanks guys!

I had wondered why my dimpled "C" was on the Contrabass row. My presumption was that they had just marked the "E" contrabass. Looking through my old book today I noticed a mention of some 48 layouts not having a contrabass row at all, and having a diminished 7th row instead. I kept puzzling over why the notes of C sounded more, "notey" when played. I hadn't thought to check until seeing this in the book. I'd just presumed my ear was out having not played accordion before. But I played a G Major on the treble side today and confirmed it. I have a weird little 48 with a diminished 7th row I believe! Taking my tuner tomorrow to check.

I found this accordion in the attic. When I tried to look it up, I couldn’t find one that looks the same—except for one, but it didn’t have as much detail.