Dingo40 pid=71415 dateline=1587392283 said:
John,
Thanks for your trouble.

( Unfortunately the app isnt iPhone compatible)
However, on further reflection, I notice adding the third M voice actually makes everything wetter sounding.
SO, it probably is the 438 reed, as you suggested (above) after all, the dots on the couplers being suggestive only, rather than actual.
It makes sense!
Thanks again
Dingo,
The guy in the demo was from the US, and made comment that he never felt it necessary to use the color register at all, as the musette was strong enough without it.
Musette is an unfortunate description, as some people use it to describe MM with a sharp tuned high reed thats maybe up to about 20 cents. In fact when the reeds are as far apart as that I often cannot tell if the box is MMM or MM. All I can hear is a very wet sounding accordion. If the player has MMM and switches it on from just MM Ill hear it coming in, but from a standing start I would struggle to tell how many reeds were sounding.
If your box has a similar color/colour switch then my money would be on your 438 reed coming into play, with all of your straight tuned reeds being 440. Seems your box is configured to give you musette on two M reeds, one at 440, and the other at 442. The boost on your musette will most probably be the 438 reeds being brought into play giving full MMM musette, with the lower M being 8 cents flat, and the higher one 8 cents sharp, normally a very pleasant musette sound, although maybe not so nice with your bassoon reeds.
I never asked, but do you know if your accordion is LMMM, or LMMMH?
I found a similar Bugari Armando advertised for sale in the UK, but they describe it as a four voice musette It appears to be an LMMM with double cassotto, but Ive never seen an instrument with four banks of M reeds, so it probably is an LMMM. The selling point is that it is suitable for both Scottish and French styles. Thats like saying if you can speak fluent Arabic you should be able to speak Greek at the flick of a switch. Scottish and French musette are not the same, end of story.
Serves you PA players right for wearing big pianos on your chests with so many switches on them that youll probably never have any use for.
Italian LMMM with 13 registers?! What are they all for? Alto sax, tenor sax, cello, xylophone, tea with 2 sugars and milk?
French LMMMs usually only have 6 or maybe 7, and I cannot cope with all of those, so I now just have LMMs with 5 registers.