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Accordions
Piano, button, chromatic, diatonic, and free-bass accordions, plus accordion makers and model families.
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Hohner Bravo III 120
Accordion · Germany
The full-size model in Hohner's Bravo line of lightweight piano accordions aimed at beginners and developing players. It has a 41-key (F-A) piano treble keyboard with three reed voices, seven treble registers, and five tone colors, over a full 120-button Stradella bass, in an ergonomic body weighing about 9.2 kg.
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Hohner Gola
Accordion · Germany
Hohner's flagship handmade piano accordion, named after master reed tuner Giovanni Gola and built in limited numbers since the 1950s. Widely regarded as one of the finest professional accordions, it pairs hand-made reeds with a full 41-key treble keyboard and 120-button Stradella bass.
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Pigini Nova
Accordion · Italy
A chromatic button accordion from the Castelfidardo maker Pigini, built for its professional and concert range. It offers a right-hand chromatic button keyboard and a convertor bass system that switches between standard Stradella and free bass for classical and contemporary repertoire.
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Beltuna Prestige
Accordion · Italy
Beltuna's flagship line of professional tone-chamber piano accordions, built in Castelfidardo with varnished wood bodies and hand-made reeds for a powerful, full sound. The full-size models use a 41-key treble keyboard and 120-button Stradella bass with a double tone chamber, and are offered in four-voice (LMMH) and five-voice (LMMMH) reed configurations as the Prestige IV and Prestige V.
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Castagnari Tommy
Accordion · Italy
A compact two-row diatonic button accordion (melodeon) from the Italian workshop Castagnari, popular in Irish, French, and other folk traditions. It has two treble rows with 21 buttons, eight bass and chord buttons, and a lightweight wooden body, and is offered in several key layouts.
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Melodija Slovenka III
Slovenia
A three-row Steirische (Alpine) diatonic button accordion made by Melodija of Mengeš, Slovenia, typically in CFBb tuning with 34 treble buttons and 11 Helikon bass buttons. It is a staple of Slovenian and Alpine folk music.
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Petosa AM-1100
Accordion · United States
Petosa's flagship professional piano accordion, introduced in 1985 and individually handcrafted in the United States, sometimes called the Stradivarius of the accordion. It uses a 41-key treble keyboard and 120-button Stradella bass with a double tone chamber, around 11 registers, and a four-to-five-voice (LMMM) reed setup of genuine Petosa hand-made reeds with hand-cut calfskin valves, in a mahogany body. It can be specified with microphones and MIDI.
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Melodija Helikon
Slovenia
A Steirische diatonic button accordion (heligonka) made by Melodija of Mengeš, Slovenia, featuring deep Helikon bass reeds for the powerful low end characteristic of Alpine folk accordions.
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Weltmeister Supita II
Accordion · Germany
Weltmeister's top-of-the-range professional piano accordion, handmade in Klingenthal with a legendary double tone chamber and hand-made reeds. It has a 41-key treble keyboard with 11 registers and a four-voice (LMMH) reed setup over a 120-button Stradella bass with 5 bass registers, and is regarded as a benchmark German cassotto accordion.
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Roland FR-4x
Accordion · Japan
A mid-range digital V-Accordion from Roland with a 37-key piano-type treble keyboard and 120 bass buttons. It models a wide range of accordion voices alongside orchestral, organ, and drum sounds, uses pressure-sensing bellows control and 128-note polyphony, and includes onboard amplification, a recorder, USB, and expansion slots. It sits between the compact FR-1x and the flagship FR-8x in Roland's V-Accordion line.
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Hohner Nova
Accordion · Germany
Hohner's Nova line of compact chromatic button accordions. The ergonomic button treble keyboard covers a wider range than a similarly sized piano accordion, and the line spans several sizes (such as the Nova II 60A and 80A and the Nova III 96) aimed at players exploring classical, jazz, folk, pop, and rock while keeping the characteristic Hohner sound in a small, light instrument.
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Dallapé Supermaestro
Accordion · Italy
Dallapé's top-of-the-line professional piano accordion, a 41-key, 120-bass instrument with a double tone chamber and a five-voice treble reed setup (LM1M2M3H) of hand-made reeds. The Supermaestro is the flagship of Dallapé's renowned Organtone-style instruments and featured prominently in the company's 1970s Centennial series.
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Makers
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Castagnari
Castagnari is an Italian family workshop associated with diatonic accordions, organetti, and handmade free-reed instruments since 1914.
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Bugari Armando
Bugari Armando is a Castelfidardo accordion maker established in 1961, when Armando Bugari took over the family accordion business begun by his father Nello. Built exclusively at its Castelfidardo headquarters, the company is known for professional piano, chromatic, and converter accordions with double tone chambers and hand-made reeds.
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Victoria Accordions
Victoria Accordions is a Castelfidardo accordion maker founded in 1919 and associated with piano, button, converter, and professional accordions.
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Hohner
Hohner is a German musical-instrument maker founded in Trossingen in 1857, especially associated with harmonicas and accordions.
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Pigini Accordions
Pigini Accordions is a Castelfidardo accordion maker focused on professional, classical, converter, and high-end accordion instruments.
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Scandalli
Scandalli is an Italian accordion maker with a history beginning in the early 1900s and a continuing line of professional accordions.
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Dallapé
Dallapé is one of the oldest and most storied Italian accordion makers, founded in 1876 by Mariano Dallapé in Stradella, Italy. Mariano Dallapé is widely credited with helping transform the simple organetto into the richer, more powerful accordion, and the family firm Fabbrica Armoniche Mariano Dallapé e Figlio became a worldwide symbol of the Italian accordion. The company remained in family hands across several generations.
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Weltmeister
Weltmeister is a German accordion brand handmade in Klingenthal, a town central to Germany's accordion-making tradition. The manufacturer behind it has operated under names including VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke, Harmona Akkordeon GmbH, and Weltmeister Akkordeon Manufaktur GmbH, and is known worldwide for professional piano and button accordions such as the Supita and the versatile Achat.
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Petosa
Petosa is an American accordion maker founded in Seattle in 1922 by Carlo Petosa, and is widely described as the only U.S.-owned-and-operated accordion manufacturer. Run by four generations of the Petosa family and now based in Lynnwood, Washington, it is known for individually handcrafted professional accordions, most notably the AM-1100.
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Beltuna Accordions
Beltuna Accordions is an Italian accordion maker based in Castelfidardo, known for professional accordion lines and technical innovations.
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Excelsior
Excelsior is an accordion maker that began in New York City in 1924, founded by Italian immigrants, and became popular with leading American and jazz accordionists. A plant was opened in Castelfidardo, Italy, in 1948, and production moved fully to Castelfidardo in the early 1950s, where Excelsior accordions are still made. It is known for professional piano accordions such as the 940.
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Roland
Roland is a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments, including synthesizers, drum machines such as the TR-808, and the JC-120 Jazz Chorus, a benchmark solid-state guitar amplifier known for its built-in stereo chorus and produced since 1975.
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Free-Reed Instruments
Instruments whose sound is produced by free reeds, including harmonicas and accordions.