Which model Giulietti do I have?

[UptonGuy75]

This past weekend, I pulled out my old accordion from its dungeon in my mother’s basement to show my kids as they were asking about it. I played from age 8-13 then gave it up as many kids do. That was 35 years ago. The case was in rough shape but the accordion was in shockingly good condition: no stuck reeds, no leaky bellows.

I’d like to figure out what model Giulietti it is (pics attached). It was bought new around 1985 through my accordion teacher. It’s a 41/120 with 3 voices (master/bassoon/clarinet) and I’m guessing it was made by Zero Sette. On the back by the Giulietti logo is stamped “18300” which I assume is the serial number. Under the RH cover, there is a “31” stamped into the metal frame.

I started playing it again and have been surprised how quickly it’s coming back to me.

Thank you!

 

[Ben-jammin]

I think usually the term voices most often is used to describe how many reed sets are on the treble side. Since master is the combination of the low “bassoon” and middle “clarinet” reeds played together it wouldn’t be counted towards the number of voices. It looks very similar to an f52 but all the f52 instruments I can see online appear to have three reed sets in the treble side. So to me it looks like an accordion with an f32 feature set but with a 5 shift register with 3 duplicate register selections instead of a 3 shift mechanism. Maybe it was an “upgrade” the factory made because they ran out of inventory on 3 shift mechanisms . I think people get hung up on model designations for accordions too much, they can be handy to identify feature sets but can provide confusion when specs changed year to year or a company got new management/supplier.