Can anyone help with ID'ing this accordion please?

[ferenc]

Hi Folks,
I'm looking to buy a 120 bass LMMH. This one's come up




but the seller doesn't know if it's mussette tuned, I can't work it out from the register switches (I much prefer the dots on three lines...) and searching on "Universal Accordion Serial No 3144" hasn't shed any light.
Does anyone know this accordion or can point me somewhere I can find serial numbers and details?
Are Universal any good?
Thanks in advance for any assistance...
Cheers!

 

[JerryPH]

If I read that right, it is a Universal. There was a company called The Universal Music Co. located in San Francisco, CA. They sold a line of accordions labeled Universal from the 60's to middle 70's. Based on the registrations, I don't think it would be a Musette tuned box, but of course that could have been done after. Accordions shipped to the USA as a general rule are quite dry tuned.

Your registers look identical to the one here:

Help identifying a Universal accordion

Hello, I am new to the forum and would like to know if anyone can give me any information about this Universal Accordion. I have searched all around and connot not find any info on the instrument not even a pic of the same model. Also in looking at the reeds I have been told that it may be made...

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[Dingo40]

To me, it appears to have three voices: low, middle, high, so musette tuning not available.

 

[JIM D.]

Universal made accordion models of Mediocre student & Semi Pro & Pro models. They were of a sturdy
Italian construction with in house machine made reeds. They made models in the 40's thru 70's with many
different badges imported to US dealers.
The accordion here is a 3 reed L M H dry tuned. Your "Bassoon is a L reed", "Clarinet is a M reed", "Piccolo
is a H reed," "Bandonion is a combo of L&M", "Organ is a Combo of L&H" "Oboe is a combo of M&H," with
a "Master a combo of all 3 reeds".

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