petosa.com
Petosa was the North American distributor for the Evo they are probably selling off remaining models. If you go to the Bugari Accordion website https://www.bugariarmando.com/en/accordions/Petosa appears to still offer them for sale:
Bugari Evo Catalogue
North America's Premier Accordion Company offering Sales, Service, Rentals, Accessories, Education & more
what about http://www.bugarievo.com/ ?
I would say "buyer Beware".................................
Fr8x is not being made???? So the "new" ones being sold are all made 1 - 2 years ago? How about the 1x and 4x?
Not sure Tom... about 2 years ago, I found info online from someone that worked at Roland that mentioned that all R&D was stopped about 2 years back (4 years total as of the time I am posting this) and they have no intentions of advancing V-accordions.
Thanks Jerry! So maybe there is a factory, somewhere, that's still turning them out, or there is a big warehouse full of "new" v accordions.
Hi John, this contradicts what a Roland Japan employee said publicly years ago. Who did you speak to? Roland is not even providing parts to Roland suppliers world-wide now for the 8X... if they were, those people with issues would be able to get some help.
Thanks Jerry so much for your response. i sent a text to Roland's product support department and they sent me a response yesterday that the FR8X is still being manufactured so not sure or not what to believe. I do have a posting on the SD90 site about using it with the EVO but no responses. Over the years, I have gotten burnt with getting parts for the I Orio and Scandalli EWA accordions with buying them new and then in a couple of years and they are no longer mfg. Now, here we go again with the Bugari-Evo, not being manufactured and no product support. I probably should have just bought a new midi accordion without sounds and a separate sound module.. I guess time will tell. I still have a Ketton X4 module.
That is the nature of our game, no electronics last forever. A few years ago the owner of the company that created the EVO publicly claimed bankruptcy/closing and then a few months later opened up under another banner. *That* line of accordions was kind of promised around 2019-2020, but COVID put a plug in that one... and today, coming up to3 years later, there are no new developments other than the posts/videos made.
Hey Jerry,That is the nature of our game, no electronics last forever. A few years ago the owner of the company that created the EVO publicly claimed bankruptcy/closing and then a few months later opened up under another banner. *That* line of accordions was kind of promised around 2019-2020, but COVID put a plug in that one... and today, coming up to3 years later, there are no new developments other than the posts/videos made.
Petosa became the only place in North America to sell and service the EVO. I don't know how they can service them unless they bought out some spares or are cannibalizing other accordions for parts.
As far as Ketron, at least they have been around a long time and seem dependable. I also own an X4 and it works 100% to this day. Not bad for being "alive" for 20+ years. Our choices in the world of digital accordions is really limited and it's too bad that there is nothing out there that can do what the 8X does... it many be tiny, but I feel that there is a market out there for it.
Concerning the SD-90, there was an earlier issue with it on the 8X, but I believe they addressed it. As for how it would run on the EVO, it is so close in that respect to the FR-8X that talking to those people the experience would have to be pretty much identical, and I would have to say in terms of effectiveness, the same as the X4, just with all the added bells and whistles that it has. Basically... MIDI is MIDI.
