Petromaestro Accordions

[RowanSumner]

There is a very talented Serbian accordionist named Vlada Veselinovic (who wrote the book School of Balkan Folk Music which is published in English) who plays a Petromaestro. I always assumed this was a Scandalli or something with a custom nameplate on the front. I have just realised its a small maker in Hungary, run by Moger Peter.

From the website (http://www.harmonikamoger.hu/en) he seems to be a dealer for several big brands offering new and used instruments as well as his own creations, he is mainly building big 120 bass classical PA instruments with one 72 bass model and one 96 model offered.

I assume he is assembling these from parts and mechanisms from other makers, but from the sounds of it most of the makers are unless you spend top dollar.

There is little mention of this maker on the forum or on other sites in English, does anyone here have experience with them?

 

[RowanSumner]

I've done some digging on this for anyone interested. They are Bayans with Piano keyboard, the top models are assembled in Croatia and the lower (double cassotto 120 bass and below) are assembled in Hungary. The double cassotto seems to go anywhere from 3-4k euro and the top models anywhere up to 8k euro. They get most of their parts from Russia and are struggling to fill orders at the moment. They are a very well liked and respected brand among the players in that region of the world. Anyway, thats enough google translate for now! I think I'll just get a Giustozzi.

 

[Vladimir M.]

Moger Peter

I live in Slovakia, if you look at the map, it is next to Hungary. Of course I know about Peter Móger (in the next text "PM"). However, only from the continuous online-monitoring of the local Central European accordion market. On his website, we can read that he lived in Germany for two years from 1992, is an active accordion player, and has also participated in competitions. He was on several professional courses in Castelfidardo. He further states that he currently professionally repairs, tunes and restores piano and button accordions, "baritone tuners" (=free bass converter mechanics) and diatonic instruments, installs and repairs MIDI. Given the large spectrum of his reported activities, it is impossible for him to pursue serious accordion building. But he was probably inspired in Germany, where the great repair masters had their instruments built with their name brand (for example: Kratt). It is obvious that those boxes with his "brand" (Petromaestro) are a "puzzle" from different suppliers.

They are a very well liked and respected brand among the players in that region of the world.

I also belong to this region, or at least I'm neighboring it. Therefore, I regret to inform you that his instruments are not really known/widespread here. Yes, we can appreciate the quality. If we like the sound and ergonomics of the instrument, we will buy it. But there is definitely no "WOW!" - effect here. PM is only one of others... other better ones...accordionists, who are also technically skilled. And anyway, I am very grateful that their number is still relatively large here. Because when I happen to read the posts of members of this forum from, for example, the USA, where they have to travel hundreds of kilometers to see a below-average acco-dealer, I'm glad that I live in Central Europe. So I am grateful for PM as well.

 

[RowanSumner]

I live in Slovakia, if you look at the map, it is next to Hungary. Of course I know about Peter Móger (in the next text "PM"). However, only from the continuous online-monitoring of the local Central European accordion market. On his website, we can read that he lived in Germany for two years from 1992, is an active accordion player, and has also participated in competitions. He was on several professional courses in Castelfidardo. He further states that he currently professionally repairs, tunes and restores piano and button accordions, "baritone tuners" (=free bass converter mechanics) and diatonic instruments, installs and repairs MIDI. Given the large spectrum of his reported activities, it is impossible for him to pursue serious accordion building. But he was probably inspired in Germany, where the great repair masters had their instruments built with their name brand (for example: Kratt). It is obvious that those boxes with his "brand" (Petromaestro) are a "puzzle" from different suppliers.

I also belong to this region, or at least I'm neighboring it. Therefore, I regret to inform you that his instruments are not really known/widespread here. Yes, we can appreciate the quality. If we like the sound and ergonomics of the instrument, we will buy it. But there is definitely no "WOW!" - effect here. PM is only one of others... other better ones...accordionists, who are also technically skilled. And anyway, I am very grateful that their number is still relatively large here. Because when I happen to read the posts of members of this forum from, for example, the USA, where they have to travel hundreds of kilometers to see a below-average acco-dealer, I'm glad that I live in Central Europe. So I am grateful for PM as well.

I got most of this information from the forum https://muzikaharmonike.com/ which is a Serb/Croat/Bosniak language site, I think it is this region that the instrument has some reputation mostly.

I have just spoken to Ivan Petrovic, who unfortunately has no instruments for sale.