brianr
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For almost 60 years I have never played with other musicians so as long as my accordion sounded OK I have never had to worry about the exact tuning. I recently bought a Sonola Sorbonne 96 bass instrument with a few notes needing attention and bought a Korg tuner to investigate. This suggests that the instrument is tuned to approx A = 444 Hz, rather than concert pitch. With the Korg set for A = 440 Hz the low and medium reeds show approx +20 cents, the medium sharp reeds show approx +40 cents and the medium flat reeds show approx +0 Hz. Surprised at this I checked my 3 voice Victoria instrument and found almost identical tuning.
Please can anyone tell me if this tuning is common for piano accordions? If not it would seem that I would never be able to join an accordion group with either of these instruments!
Please can anyone tell me if this tuning is common for piano accordions? If not it would seem that I would never be able to join an accordion group with either of these instruments!