A rare excelsior OO?

[nagant27]

Its definitely a "fishy" curiosity. I'm not sure what to make of it.

 

[Thomas N]

Good eye!!!


Do you think it has 2 bassoons in the chamber maybe? looks like maybe it is bassoon 1 and bassoon 2 and then 2 together? Its hard to tell. Like a LLMMH?

It certainly is possible, but the design on the register would denote it, no? This is the exact same button with the same design repeated twice. At the very least it has one or two incorrect register designs on it.

For $5000US that front grill would have to be in absolute perfect condition, which it is not, and just the fact that its not even original Excelsior badging just further pushes this into the realm of a potential scam or some very butchered up accordion where the purchaser is not going to like what they get for their money.[/quote]

I completely agree with you. How do people expect to sell an accordion for $5000 with three external pictures and this one-line description?

Double tone chamber accordion. 5 x 5. Beautiful crisp, powerful sound. LMMMH

I guess the answer is that it wont sell. I demand pictures of the reed blocks, reeds and leathers. At least I can be certain they are not curled or missing. A video really helps too. Beautiful, crisp sound doesnt mean much to me. I want to hear that sound.

And $5000 for a used accordion is a lot of money. I have a 12-year old custom-built Excelsior 960, 5/5 hand-made reeds, Magnante keyboard, LLMMM, double tone chamber (LM), stereo Sennheiser mics, AC grill, grill mute, custom elephant straps, $400 Italian-built wheeled road case - and I doubt I could pull $5000 for that accordion at auction. And its a mint studio accordion thats never been played outside. There are some really nice eBay accordions under $5000 that tempt me daily. This is not one of them.

Three external pictures and a powerful sound? No thank you.

 

[nagant27]

Totally. There are very few used accordions that would fetch $5000- especially unseen. I would really like to see the inside of this to help figure what we really have here.

 

[nagant27]

I put this on my watch list just so I wouldn't forget to see what happens, and now it really surprises me.
Only $10,000!!??

Anyone figure whats going on here? Do you have to pay to list something on ebay if it doesn't sell? I haven't sold anything in a while, and cannot remember.

 

[landro]

I put this on my watch list just so I wouldnt forget to see what happens, and now it really surprises me.
Only $10,000!!??

Anyone figure whats going on here? Do you have to pay to list something on ebay if it doesnt sell? I havent sold anything in a while, and cannot remember.

You will get charged a listing fee IF the item doesn`t sell but they offer many promotions and for sellers who list multiple items and sell often the fees are often waived.

 

[debra]

That strange $10.000 Excelsior looks like an interesting mix of two halves. The style of the keyboard side makes me think this part of the instrument is of an older generation, maybe 30 or 40 years old (with interesting uneven discoloration of the register switches) and the style of the bass side and registers makes me think this part of the instrument is probably less than 20 years old. The grille is a really old-fashioned design, suggesting even more than 40 years... and the lettering that says excelsior is of a much more modern font so it must be a later addition. This Ebay listing essentially has scam written all over it!

 

[JIM D.]

Looking closely at the pic's of this $10,000 abortion I can see that the body size, keyboard & shifts are from a
SEM (Farfisa) product that was made in the 70's for dealers such as Titano and Excelsior that needed a accordion/organ model to compete with BELL Duovox, Cordovox, Accorgan, and Synthaccordion models that were very popular in this time period. On this one - the electronics have been removed - a homemade grill fashioned - and most likely the original pickups have been re-installed. I've converted many of these older accordion/organ model accordions in the past for customers that wanted to keep an old box and have it converted to a acoustic box only. If these old boxes have quality reeds I will do the conversion for a nominal cost, but also warning the customer that although the resulting acoustic conversion will sound well, the resulting conversion will leave you with an oversized acoustic accordion body that may be to large to play comfortabley.

 

[Thomas N]

Definitely some type of Frankenstein job on this one. Notice how the front bellows pins do not line up. Different bass and treble sections of the accordion.

 

[JerryPH]

Sheesh. A guy like this should be reported.

 

[Thomas N]

We already cost ourselves $5000 by not pulling the trigger last week on this one. It will be $20K next week so best to snap it up right now.