Sourcing replacement valve leathers

[Sebastian Bravo]

Nowadays, real leathers have gone out of fashion at least to some extent. The valves I got from Italy all have a (packaging) label that says pelle sintetiche and correspond roughly to what frm shows as viledon valves.

Does these sintetiche valves work better? Ive used eco-leather to make my own bass reeds on all the accordions ive tuned, with a plastic placed on top to avoid foldings or whatever. They seem to work as good as leather valves.

 

[Geronimo]

Nowadays, real leathers have gone out of fashion at least to some extent. The valves I got from Italy all have a (packaging) label that says pelle sintetiche and correspond roughly to what frm shows as viledon valves.

Does these sintetiche valves work better? Ive used eco-leather to make my own bass reeds on all the accordions ive tuned, with a plastic placed on top to avoid foldings or whatever. They seem to work as good as leather valves.

Uh, yet. The tanning preparation used for valve leathers is not standard since the valves must not stiffen over decades of use or unuse. So what makes the difference here might kick in a few years later. So it very much depends on what eco-leather actually is.