Sounds like a full-size pipe organ!

[oldbayan]

I know the sound has likely been enhanced for the recording, but it is still very impressive! Use headphones.

 

[Tom]

Cool background and video. I try to wrap my head around this song but it’s hard, not hard to play, but to get the weird rhythm going not to sound like a dirge. Kudos to people who can including Jo.

 

[oldbayan]

Cool background and video. I try to wrap my head around this song but it’s hard, not hard to play, but to get the weird rhythm going not to sound like a dirge. Kudos to people who can including Jo.

This is a ballad made for singing, so you need to make your accordion sing!!!

Here is a famous rendition by Mario Lanza:

 

[losthobos]

Power....

 

[debra]

Jo makes nice videos. And the sound recording (by Huib Hölzken) contributes greatly to how "cathedral" this accordion sounds.
We should never compare how our accordion sounds "in real life" and how recordings made in a studio and heavily post-processed sound. You cannot turn the sound of a wreck into that of a high-end instrument, but you can make a good accordion sound even better and "majestic" using the proper recording and processing technique. That's part of the success Jo has with his videos. (And his great photographic skills and artistic eye of course help greatly too.)
Now of course an accordion will never really sound like a pipe organ. Sound produced by reeds is always different from that produced by organ pipes.

 

[xocd]

I think he mentions in one of his video's write-up that this model (or brand) of accordion is no longer being made.

 

[Tom]

This is a ballad made for singing, so you need to make your accordion sing!!!

Here is a famous rendition by Mario Lanza:

“But in the cause of insanity I will listen!” Wow, quite the singer!

 

[Siegmund]

I think he mentions in one of his video's write-up that this model (or brand) of accordion is no longer being made

Yes... I was sad to find this out too: I heard several amazing-sounding Vignonis on Youtube when I first took an interest in the accordion, only to find out they had gone out of business, either at the beginning of the pandemic or even before. They still have a website and you can still download a (2017) catalog that will make you drool... but they don't reply if you write to them, and they have long since vacated the showroom address listed on their site.

 

[Ric46]

You cannot turn the sound of a wreck into that of a high-end instrument,

no, but you can do the opposite!

 

[debra]

I think he mentions in one of his video's write-up that this model (or brand) of accordion is no longer being made.

The Fisart/Vignoni company went out of business years before Covid. The picture below (taken in 2018) shows where they used to be.
(In my full size image, too large to post here, you can see the sign by the door on the right that says "Fisart".)
The brand name was taken over by a French company so you can still buy a Fisart or Vignoni from France. But of course it's not the same factory, which means you cannot get the exact same accordion.

 

[Siegmund]

I walked by the same building last year, just in case a miracle had occurred and Vignoni had come back from the dead. (It hadn't.)
Fisart claims their instruments are made in Castelfidardo and fine-tuned, or tested, or something-ed, in France, but doesn't say by whom. Does anyone have any theories who is building them? (I have a suspicion but no firm evidence.)