online video Cavagnolo Castelfidardo factory visits

[Deleted member 48]

See YT for Monsieur Accordeon a Castelfidardo.
Phone sorry for missing link.
At 1'40" robot at work at (is it) Castagnari? We'll be seeing more and more robots for repetitive precisie cnc work in parts production.

 

[JerryPH]

It was inevitable.

 

[Deleted member 48]

Thank you Jerry for the correct hyperlink.

By the way, 3 months ago Maugein France uploaded a short video of their Shanghai music 2016 stand presenting their accordions to Chinese consumers. They intend to go again to Shanghai this year.

 

[Morne]

There is something over the bass reeds here:


Is that just something that happened to be sitting there, or is it some kind of sound altering box? Not a bass cassotto, but something to that effect?

 

[JerryPH]

Looks a bit like a small sound deflector?

 

[JIM D.]

A Bass "Sordina" to simulate a tone chamber effect.
Often used when Helicon reeds are installed to get the full bass effect on the bass machine.

 

[debra]

There is something over the bass reeds here:


Is that just something that happened to be sitting there, or is it some kind of sound altering box? Not a bass cassotto, but something to that effect?

Also look at the keyboard side: the pallets for all the notes are really narrow and all notes are on a single row. This is one strange instrument!