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[dunlustin]

Another vote for pre-China Hohner.
And

Les ateliers de l'accordéon diatonique | Accordage - Location - Vente - Atelier - Accordéon

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[Manu]

Another vote for pre-China Hohner.
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Les ateliers de l'accordéon diatonique | Accordage - Location - Vente - Atelier - Accordéon

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indeed there is a Hohner Verdi IIN (96 bass) at 800 euros and a Hohner Verdi IM at 60 basses (650 euros) and a Weltmeister.
Three voices and 5 registers on the right hand, 80 basses. (700 euros) what are the market prices?
I will see there when I will be available

 

[Manu]

German specifications is not enough. It needs to be made in Germany, using German (or other European) materials in order for it to be good. Hohners made in China are made with rubbish Chinese steel, and as a result for instance springs tend to break much much sooner than they ever would when German springs were used...
The Hohners that are particularly good are the Verdi II (37/96) or Verdi III (41/120) and you can maybe even find a Verdi II (with white registers) from the German era, after service by a store, for around 600 euro.
You cannot really trust any vendor who sells Chinese rubbish and calls himself an accordion specialist. As long as you cannot get a Chinese accordion for say 600 euro new that is at least as good as a serviced old German or Italian accordion of similar spec, buy European and run away from the Chinese accordions! (I am not generally biased against the Chinese, but when it comes to accordions they still have decades of learning to go before they are likely to produce something good.)

thank you I look at the verdi 2 and there are kinds of white register buttons (round and a little square) see image ?

 

[debra]

thank you I look at the verdi 2 and there are kinds of white register buttons (round and a little square) see image ?

I was referring to the registers on the second picture.
But to be safe you should be getting one with a lot of metal decoration:


The ones with just a little bit of fake-gold, like the black one you showed, I don't trust to not already be from the China-made batch.
The ones with all the fake-gold strips are certainly the good German-made ones.