The Amati has landed!

[Anyanka]

My Hohner Amati 48-bass CBA arrived on Friday, after Id paid VAT & a handling fee... hadnt thought about that when buying from Switzerland! As I knew from the photos that it was an old box, and the description was brief and unrevealing, I knew what to expect: farty valves, out of tune reeds, even leaky bellows.

But its perfect.

It looks and feels almost exactly like my Hohner Student VM; a little heavier as it has 8 more notes - but it sounds better, warmer, richer. I am chuffed to bits with it! Now I just need to relearn my 30+ Morris tunes....

Picture below (taken by the seller). As one of my friends said, it looks like a melodeon with an identity crisis

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[jarvo]

Only the 3 rows on the right .....hmm that makes sense ....more so to me than the five rows , to me two of which are redundant/in the way /a distraction for erring digits ......nice looking incomer to the Anyanka Vaults. :tup: {}

 

[Anyanka]

3 rows is actually a fair bit harder than 5, but probably character forming: you have to get the fingering just right, which can only be a bonus when playing on the big box.

Once I've transferred all my pieces to buttons, I can pare the accordion collection right down to this one and the Pidge.

 

[Sarah]

Nice!

 

[Soulsaver]

Yep - I love the look of these older instruments.
'Health to wear' as they say in Ireland (usually about clothes..) Anyanka

Charlie Marshall has the Hohner letters.. subject to size... as your other half prob knows - should you deem them necessary..

 

[Anyanka]

Thank you!

re the missing letters ... I find it quite amusing and may keep it that way, because the Amati is without the OHNE. Which is the German word for 'without'. :lol: