David Higson
Newbie
Hello all.
I always had a fascination for the accordion as my dad apparently used to play one in a concert party in the 1930's. WWII left him without the use of his right arm so the accordion remained an object of mute fascination for me as a child in the 1960's. He gave it to me in the mid 1990's but life and the universe flooded in and I'm only now beginning to take things seriously.
It is a 1935 Hohner Carmen II (Blue) 24 Bass and still seems to hold a reasonable level of tuning. At least it registers the right notes on the tuning app on my phone. Whilst getting to grips with this, a friend gave me a 1980's Zero Sette electronic model which has six times the number of bass buttons and a defective pedal unit.
Ah, the bliss! Practising, tinkering, fun, fun, fun.
I always had a fascination for the accordion as my dad apparently used to play one in a concert party in the 1930's. WWII left him without the use of his right arm so the accordion remained an object of mute fascination for me as a child in the 1960's. He gave it to me in the mid 1990's but life and the universe flooded in and I'm only now beginning to take things seriously.
It is a 1935 Hohner Carmen II (Blue) 24 Bass and still seems to hold a reasonable level of tuning. At least it registers the right notes on the tuning app on my phone. Whilst getting to grips with this, a friend gave me a 1980's Zero Sette electronic model which has six times the number of bass buttons and a defective pedal unit.
Ah, the bliss! Practising, tinkering, fun, fun, fun.
