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Need help identifying and pricing an old russian accordion.

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Hey, i have an old russian accordion and Im thinking about selling it if it has any value. Tried it a little and seems to play good, even thou I dont understand anything about accordions. Visually its in great shape. I also have a hard case for it, and i think its original.

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Thanks in advance. :)
 
If youre anywhere near Western Canada, Id like to look at it.

I got to try one of these Russian garmon (as in harmon-ica) for the first time just the other day. Really interesting, I wrote a bit on my blog here:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/garmon/

I thought “garmon” was Russian for “little diatonic accordion,” but it is more complicated than that. I didn’t realize how different they were from our diatonics. Wikipedia has helpful button diagrams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmon

They look like small two-row accordions with extra bass buttons. But all the buttons on both sides are unisonoric (same note played pumping in and out). The treble is laid out in a diatonic do-re-me scale that kind of zippers up the keyboard – inside-button, outside-button, repeat – with three accidentals added on top. So they are diatonic (like Western button boxes) but without being in-out bisonoric (and they may be technically chromatic with the accidentals, I haven’t counted). Fun to play! Holding three notes next to each other gives a major chord, but the pattern changes as you move around. I gather they come in different keys. I’d love to have one of these to mess with. The one I tried had a nice sound on the master with LMH (low, middle, high reeds).

The bass side is weird too with the inside row (of three) all individual basses in a do-re-mi scale, and the outside two rows are bass-chord combos (like more familiar diatonics I think, but still all unisonoric.) You might could do some interesting chording by combining the individual notes with chords, hmm.

Russian accordion history has sort of a parallel development with the West through the long distance and separation. I dont know much about it, but I assume they think our slew of diatonic systems are weird too. (I gather they have some bisonoric in-out systems as well, but this one is really popular. Wikipedia also mentions the oriental garmon with piano keyboard systems on both sides, played in Azerbaijan.)
 
the old russian accordion in the picture is a mass produced diatonic unisonoric harmonica, sometimes named chromka.

To give you an idea of the value of new ones, here are some prices in rubles for new ones:
http://muz-instrument.ru/?page=garmon&type=103

Your green garmon looks like a Garmon Tchaika, 22.000 rubles (so around 335 Euro for a new one)
Гармонь Чайка (Шуйская) 22 000 руб.

This is the place to be for chromka and garmon afficionados:
http://russian-garmon.ru/

In the 20th century the 25 bass chromka was the standardised classic layout, a very popular music instrument, much more popular than the bayan, piano accordion, balalaika and domra.
Still played today by many.
 
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