Hagström Granesso

[Harrytulipan]

I have an old Hagström Granesso. It is a piano accordion but it has probably not been fixed or repared in many years so it is not that easy to play. It is really difficult to play.

But I found this video of a CBA Granesso:

This accordion seem to be of much better quality than mine but...it still seems to be very difficult to play. It was probably not the best accordion when it was new.

What are those accordions? Were those only for the poor people who could not buy a better accordion?

 

[Mr Mark]

I have no experience with that one but the ergonomics don't look so nice. I have repaired another Hagstrom CBA that seemed a lot easier to play that that one looks, probably due to the design of the treble keyboard being a little more stepped than flat, as that one looks. So, the one in that video does look a little cheaper yes.

 

[Harrytulipan]

I have no experience with that one but the ergonomics don't look so nice. I have repaired another Hagstrom CBA that seemed a lot easier to play that that one looks, probably due to the design of the treble keyboard being a little more stepped than flat, as that one looks. So, the one in that video does look a little cheaper yes.

It looks like the way you use your left arm and wrist would be different on a cheaper accordion like this one.
The less good accordion you have the better the player must be?

 

[Mr Mark]

It looks like the way you use your left arm and wrist would be different on a cheaper accordion like this one.
The less good accordion you have the better the player must be?

I have found that with a lot of older and cheap accordions or CBA's that the ergonomics are quite terrible. Having had more than one broken wrist only exacerbates the problem for me, to say my fingerings are not conventional would be an understatement...one day I hope to acquire myself a Tiger and see if that is any better.

The worst ones I have encountered are old Eastern Block CBA's...the square edges probably came from the same designers of proverbial old Soviet era architecture...