Hohner Student III Garmoshka ???

[Corinto]

Hi all,

What is this?
Looks like a Student III rebuild as a Garmoshka.

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More info, look here = http://www.ebay.de/itm/Akkordeon-Knopfakkordeon-/152014103762?hash=item2364bf24d2:g:spsAAOSwAuNW5aBA

No relation with seller.

 

[Morne]

Without knowing what notes get played where I cannot say for sure. But my guess is its not a proper garmon/garmoshka. The standard layout there is 25 bass buttons (unlike what the ad description says). Ive not yet seen a garmon with 24 bass buttons. If that is really a garmon bass then you would lose one of the root notes.

On the other hand, this is most likely a 8x3 Stradella and those 25 treble buttons matches the range of two octaves on this piano keyboard Student III:
http://www.jollyrogeraccordions.co.uk/for-sale/hohner-student-iii-24-bass-for-sale-385/
The grille matches too.

The treble might be some diatonic or club-like system. I am not sure what note layout it would use for a fully chromatic keyboard arranged in two rows - the garmon has a diatonic scale over 3 octaves.

 

[Deleted member 48]

My guess also this looks like a hybrid experiment.
2 accordions recycled into one hybrid?
A remake of the descant side, with a 24 Stradella bass Hohner.

The seller made a mistake, writing in the advert it is a 25x25 ( a common layout for a garmon/garmoshka).
But the bass is only 8x3 = 24 buttons.

The seller better makes another description in the ad, the one online offers very little information.

These days German and Italian accordion manufacturers also make 25x25 garmoshkas for the Eastern markets.