96Bass
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An accordion that uses a single bi-directional reed. Only one reed on the reed plate that sounds on both the push and pull.
Singleton Accordion
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Amazing. I wonder why singleton reeds were abandoned because they were a great invention. Tuning is also only half the amount of work with these reeds, and... no valves to be seen either!
Cool!!!! Was it because it’s easier to produce “standard” reeds?
Amazing. Surely solves the weight problem too!
Siegmund
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Looking at that video, these may well be harder to manufacture, and heavier, than the usual pairs of reeds: the reed plates are an odd sandwich of two big pieces of metal with one reed in the center. No way to tell from one example how much of that extra plate width and thickness is actually necessary.
At 4:40 would that be the "bellows shake" I've heard talked about?
Dingo40
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This seems like such an obvious improvement that I don't know why it hasn't become standard. Not only half the amount of time to tune, but would likely hold its tuning longer and require far less maintenance, as changes in the reed leathers are a big part of why accordions go out of tune, and they need to be replaced every so often at great expense. Perhaps an international cabal of accordion technicians has suppressed this technology.
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
The strange thing is there's virtually nothing regarding the singleton reed design on Google. Does anyone know a more appropriate search word?
Unisonoric ?The strange thing is there's virtually nothing regarding the singleton reed design on Google. Does anyone know a more appropriate search word?
