Hohner Atlantic

[Decbox]

Hi. Can anybody give me any information on the History of the Hohner Atlantic. As in what year the grille changes were made, different types of Reed used etc. I did have one from 1956 which seemed to have brass Reed plates. I suspect later models had H Reeds.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Declan

 

[Decbox]

 

[JerryPH]

I don't know their entire history, but in the 70's they came in 3 flavors:
Atllantic IV N
Atllantic IV N Musette
Atllantic IV N de Luxe.

All had 11 register on the right, 3 registers on the left. I was told that some Atlantics had hand finished reeds and the Atlantic de Lux had hand made reeds in the 70's.

 

[debra]

I don't know their entire history, but in the 70's they came in 3 flavors:
Atllantic IV N
Atllantic IV N Musette
Atllantic IV N de Luxe.

All had 11 register on the right, 3 registers on the left. I was told that some Atlantics had hand finished reeds and the Atlantic de Lux had hand made reeds in the 70's.

Not sure. I believe the Atlantic IV N (whether standard LMMH or Musette LMMM) all have machine reeds, either H or T, I'm not sure. The de Luxe model had somewhat better reeds, perhaps coated with something, perhaps hand finished but I doubt that. Given Hohner's ambition to make as much money as possible while offering as little as possible I really doubt that any Atlantic ever had hand made reeds.
The biggest change in the Atlantic was that in the N series the jalousie was removed. It was probably too expensive and not sufficiently reliable in the long run to keep it in there. People I know who used to play the Atlantic IV before N used to play with the jalousie closed all the time to get a bit more mellow sound of the otherwise very sharp sound caused by the "Metalbau" of the Atlantic.
Hohner de Luxe models sometimes also offered a "Winkelbaß" instead of a normal bass.
All the "good" Atlantics I have seen (if you can call any of them "good") have a grille similar to that of the N series. The original post by Decbox shows an Atlantic N and then a different accordion I do not recognize as being an Atlantic at all.
Note these posts are from April already so maybe Decbox already knows more by now...