Hohner Morino 41/Cymbal and Woodblock

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Seriously: Photo - Accordion Hohner Morino Maurice Thöni | notrehistoire.ch

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And I think thats one of those wood ratchet thingies too.

I learned about Thöni, who had this oddity built, reading an old post at the squeezebox Google Group: Top ten accordions - Google Groups He was a Swiss folk music artist, composer and arranger of
some renown. One poster aquired another Morino that Thöni had built which also sported some unique features:

Anyway, I just spent a ridiculously low amount of value on a
ridiculously custom-made Morino Artiste. It doesnt even have a model
name: its just labelled Morino. The treble side is only somewhat
weird: 4-row C system, 3 levers for directly accessing the normal and
musette sliders, and the bassoon declassement coupler (a special trick
of old Morinos).

But the bass side is the weirdest things ever. 185 buttons or something
like that (3 rows of baritone button), and weird sliders for putting in
double bass and other additional bass couplings. The weirdest sliders
of all are one sliding switch which can activate a second slider.
Depending on the position of this second slider, 12 levers of a block of
something like 40 or so are depressed (when the activating slider is in
the other position, all are depressed).

I went looking for a pic of that and came across the box with the sound effects on its left hand. I recall some old catalogues showed accordions with bells.

Heres a recording: Audio - Maurice Thöni, pot-pourri, chansons suisse romandes 1929 | notrehistoire.ch