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Title: How Its Made: Diatonic Accordions
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falcanary
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(Date Posted:22/10/2007 19:08:30)

Science Channel's "How It's Made" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQglJZFjUsc Most of you have seen this. For those that haven't, here is Raynald Ouellet of Montmagny, Qu?ec showing how to make a diatonic accordion at his "Accord?n M?odie'" shop. He also founded the world festival of accordions called "Carrefour mondial de l'accord?n". See: http://accordeon.montmagny.com/carrefour/index_e.aspx?DetailId=164 Comments? Thoughts?WF

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(Date Posted:23/10/2007 03:05:36)

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Comments? Thoughts?




Hi Wade,
Thanks for putting the video up. The player in the beginning and end is Raynald Ouellet, but the builder during the film is Sylvain V?ina (note the difference in build). I play a M?odie accordion (my favorite box) and have been to the workshop twice (thought it was funny to call it a "factory" in the video), but it was still enjoyable to see this. Note that the box being built is actually a three-stopper. The footage of the treble buttonboard being made was the most interesting to me, because this is somewhat different on a M?odie than on many other one-row boxes. Cool to see the "worker" (Madame V?ina, I believe) making the bellows. Finally, I'm glad they showed the attachment of the bellows to the frame at the end, because this makes the M?odie's construction different from all other one-row boxes currently made in North America. It's the way most Italian two- and three-row boxes attach the bellows.
I'm glad I got my M?odie years ago before the US dollar got so weak against the Canadian dollar!
-Andy
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(Date Posted:23/10/2007 13:26:34)

I was surprised to see that the bellow pins were HAMMERED in place. Even using small quiet strokes of the hammer, I would think it was more safe to PUSH them in place.

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(Date Posted:26/10/2007 07:33:38)

Did my eyes deceive me or did this 3 stopper have three laydown blocks..??????

 
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(Date Posted:03/11/2007 21:17:23)

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Did my eyes deceive me or did this 3 stopper have three laydown blocks..??????




Not exactly. It has three "one-sided" blocks. The middle one is nearly vertical, and the two side blocks are angled to the point where they are almost "laydown" blocks. My four-voice M?odie is like this, too (but with a two-sided middle block). My older four-voice M?odie (the one that Johnny Connelly now plays) was NOT like this, but rather, had "laydown" blocks much like a Cajun-made box. My preference? Well, since they were both in the key of D, I kept only one -- the one I thought sounded best!
-Andy
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