accordionmaniac
Member
Hi,
I'm new here, and have been playing piano accordion (and a bit of steirische) for 20 years. I play a 96 bass Fismen piano accordion, I live near Melbourne, Australia, where we have at least 2 really good repairers, but having talked to several repairers, suppliers and accordionists around the country, there's no one interested to install midi into an accordion if I were to buy a kit, and no midi supplier overseas willing to sell a kit without me sending my accordion to them for installation. Given the shipping costs and general effort associated with sending accordions overseas for this sort of work, I've sort of given up on my search (not worth it for me unless I could get it done locally), but recently came across this forum and thought I'd give it one more shot. Also emailed a few vendors like Midrig in Scotland, Simpl in Germany and ST in Austria, waiting to hear back from them. For the midi to work, I'm open to even getting a used iPad and using the Turboreini app, since it's very appropriate to the music that I play - but I think my biggest challenge is simply getting the bass midi installed.
And for the midi itself, I'm not looking for anything fancy like bellow sensors, just plain midi for the bass notes and the chords.
My question: given the advancements in midi systems and components in recent years, and the variety of products that have entered the market, does anyone know of a midi system that might be easy enough for in general any repairer (or even not a repairer) to install into the bass side of an accordion without prior experience with midi, and a vendor that is so confident with the ease, that they'd be willing to sell it to me despite being in Australia?
Thanks.
I'm new here, and have been playing piano accordion (and a bit of steirische) for 20 years. I play a 96 bass Fismen piano accordion, I live near Melbourne, Australia, where we have at least 2 really good repairers, but having talked to several repairers, suppliers and accordionists around the country, there's no one interested to install midi into an accordion if I were to buy a kit, and no midi supplier overseas willing to sell a kit without me sending my accordion to them for installation. Given the shipping costs and general effort associated with sending accordions overseas for this sort of work, I've sort of given up on my search (not worth it for me unless I could get it done locally), but recently came across this forum and thought I'd give it one more shot. Also emailed a few vendors like Midrig in Scotland, Simpl in Germany and ST in Austria, waiting to hear back from them. For the midi to work, I'm open to even getting a used iPad and using the Turboreini app, since it's very appropriate to the music that I play - but I think my biggest challenge is simply getting the bass midi installed.
And for the midi itself, I'm not looking for anything fancy like bellow sensors, just plain midi for the bass notes and the chords.
My question: given the advancements in midi systems and components in recent years, and the variety of products that have entered the market, does anyone know of a midi system that might be easy enough for in general any repairer (or even not a repairer) to install into the bass side of an accordion without prior experience with midi, and a vendor that is so confident with the ease, that they'd be willing to sell it to me despite being in Australia?
Thanks.
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