When you’re not playing your ? where do you keep it/them?
I have a room full of sundry musical instruments. Some of them in cases. Many on display.When you’re not playing your ? where do you keep it/them?
This is a really bad idea! An accordion that has cassotto or Winkelbaß should always be stored in the playing position and other accordions can be stored on their feet. But no accordion should be stored laying "flat". You should always store an accordion in a way that none of the valves can be pulled open by gravity. You won't notice any bad consequences after a short while, but after 10 or maybe 20 years you will notice the effect of gravity! Some valves will no longer close without additional force, causing a "plop" sound (of the valve being sucked closed) when a note starts.I keep mine in their cases, lying flat on their sides, on top of the wardrobes in the bedrooms,
Getting them up there is my "gym " session for the day: a kind of weight lifting "snatch and press" or "snatch and lift"!?
Each case rests on a suitably sized thick carpet mat which allows me easily to slide the accordion in its box to its final position.
This has worked well for decades ?
Doom and gloom from one of the two people whose opinion I trust on this forum. Step 2 in putting the instrument away for the night will now be setting the case so that the instrument is in its playing position. My primary concern had been for a tree limb crashing through the roof during one of our violent storms.This is a really bad idea! An accordion that has cassotto or Winkelbaß should always be stored in the playing position and other accordions can be stored on their feet. But no accordion should be stored laying "flat". You should always store an accordion in a way that none of the valves can be pulled open by gravity. You won't notice any bad consequences after a short while, but after 10 or maybe 20 years you will notice the effect of gravity! Some valves will no longer close without additional force, causing a "plop" sound (of the valve being sucked closed) when a note starts.
Not just "doom and gloom" and not just an academic argument:Doom and gloom from one of the two people whose opinion I trust on this forum. Step 2 in putting the instrument away for the night will now be setting the case so that the instrument is in its playing position. My primary concern had been for a tree limb crashing through the roof during one of our violent storms.
debra:Not just "doom and gloom" and not just an academic argument:
These are the lowest 7 notes in the M register in cassotto of an accordion that (when not being played) was always stored on its feet for about 10 years. The valves being pulled down by gravity stayed open even in the playing position. These notes (on pull) were all slow to start because the air pressure first had to suck the valves closed before the note (next to these valves) would start. I have seen this several times by now. We always store our own accordions in the the playing orientation and never had this problem.
This problem occurs mostly with 1) large leather valves that have plastic boosters and 2) smaller leather valves that have no boosters.
Thanks a lot Jim! Often I find that I'm the only one advocating this storage procedure and people are just in disbelief, in part because in an accordion store all instruments on display are placed on their feet. Even storekeepers have disagreed with me. Even the Victoria factory disagreed, but in their defence they used to place (metal) boosters on all the leather valves, and then it is not much of an issue. At some point for a short while they tried the now more common leather + plastic boosters which are more efficient to install (no messing around with glue for boosters and the paper or leather dots) but they quickly abandoned these, as the plastic boosters lose their strength over time. (The picture I showed was from a Victoria form that time period.)Paul has correctly posted THE PROPER WAY to store Cassotto and Non Cassotto accordions. ...There are really only 2 basic & proper methods for
storage.
(1) Non Cassotto types should be stored on it's feet. Although storing it in an upright position will not harm it.
(2) Cassotto type accordions MUST BE stored in a playing position as not is just an accident waiting to happen.
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