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[Ffingers]

This just popped up on my utoob




I'm intrigued as well as delighted.

 

[Dingo40]

And she sings!
Thanks for sharing, Ffingers!
Love the sound of her accordion/harmonica

One more:

 

[Dingo40]

Apparently, she may be playing a Põlva * harmonica .
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Põlva
Judging by YouTube videos, similar harmonicas may be a big thing in Estonia.
Unfortunately, Google translate doesn't do Estonian.

 

[Ffingers]

Apparently, she may be playing a Põlva * harmonica .
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Põlva
Judging by YouTube videos, similar harmonicas may be a big thing in Estonia.
Unfortunately, Google translate doesn't do Estonian.

I've gone down a regular rabbit warren on the 'toob following this instrument since that first video popped up - it certainly seems to be popular even to the extent of playing versions of old American and British 'pop' songs!
The air capacity of the bellows lends itself well to diatonics and most of the instruments seem to be well tuned and have very pleasant tonal characteristics.
Learn summat new every day, eh!?

 

[Dingo40]

Here's something:
There's a huge amount of skilled and painstaking work required, much of which is shown in the following series of clips, including the pre tuning and fitting of the reeds.
You can see that Italian workshop practice is much more streamlined to reduce time taken!

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

And here:

A couple of skilled players giving "The Old Comrades " march an airing.

One more from Kristi:

 

[Dingo40]

on further searching, it appears that at least some of these instruments may be manufactured under the name of "Ieviņa"*, by a firm in the neighbouring Baltic country of Latvia. (There's a fair amount on YouTube).
*meaning, "bird cherry". See here:
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a...y-bonsai-dwarf-tree-or-gm1204587037-346658738