Writing your name inside accordion?

[Neoscan]

Hi,
So, I just bought a Hohner Tango 1 (1935-38) and, like with most old instruments, I wondered where it had been, who had played it, etc.

Anyways, I took the back plate off (panel that protects coupler mechanism on the back of the keyboard) and there written in pencil was the original owner's name, town and date (12/12/37!)! Further up there's another name and date from someone else from 1962. Fantastic to know a little bit about the instrument's history!

Anyways, I just wondered if this was common? Has anyone else found something similar or have you added your own name to an accordion perhaps?

I am now preparing for the task of revalving, refelting, etc

 

[knobby]

Inside mine I found dealer stamps from (I assume) when it had been in for repair. One of the was from the shop owned by Jimmy Shand!

 

[Stephen Hawkins]

Hi Neo,

That is very interesting; perhaps we should all mark our instruments in the same way. I hope that you are now going to add your name to the list of owners.

Kind Regards,

Stephen.

 

[george garside]

the idea of writing name inside is usually as a security measure to enable a stolen/recovered instruments to be identified rather than as a history of owners. Also tuners sometimes write their name and date of tuning on a reedblock.

george

 

[losthobos]

As George states id assumed these were generally tuners names and "mot" dates...