Farunachrista
Newbie
This is my 2 row Hohner "Accordeon" that was given to me a few years ago, my first/only accordion and my favorite to play.
I tuned all the reeds and replaced all the old leather with nice new leather parts. I love it because of how simple it is to play.
All the B's are on push and all the C's and A's are on pull while all the other notes have push or pull on two different buttons.
The 11 button row is tuned to play in the key of Bmajor while the 10 button row is tuned to play in the key of Emajor.
When I restored it I lost a few chords and bass but ended with 4 chord buttons (8 chords total) and 5 bass buttons (10 bass notes total) mostly major chords.
I love it because it is comfy to hold and play, it isn't super heavy and I can play it without using a shoulder strap by resting it on my knee and using the thumb sling on the treble side and usual hand strap on the bass side.
The person who gave it to me was in their 40's-50-s and he said it had belonged to his grandfather who played it.
It sat in an attic since the 60's when his grandfather passed away but it was in a case so it stayed in pretty good condition. the case was pretty musty and degrading on the outside so I re-painted it and installed new hardware and lined the inside with velvet.
Other than that it belonged to this person's grandfather and that it was made in Germany I don't really know anything else about it. When I was working on it I noticed on the inside frame of the bellows there appears to be a signature but can't really make out the name, I thought maybe it was the signature of this person's grandfather or perhaps even the person who built it?
If anyone knows anything more about it I would love to hear! I love this old style of accordion I want to try build one myself using the same design someday!
