Ever wonder how Hohner accordions are made? Peter Unbehauen has posted a fantastic photo tour of the Hohner accordion factory in Trossingen, Germany. If your Hohner was “made in Germany” — very likely if it’s a Gola, Morino, Genius, Ventura, or Corona Classic — it came from this factory. It’s a really fascinating look at the production process as craftsmen install reeds, wax reed blocks, and tune accordions before they’re shipped to players worldwide.
I highly recommend poking around Peter’s site — it’s full of fascinating and unique accordion information. For instance, he has some great photos of the old Hohner factory buildings in Trossingen, as well as the workshop of master tuner and builder Claudio Beltrami.
[Found via the Reyes Accordions forum]
8 Comments:
oh bery good this Accordion Factory Photo Tour…
So I made an article about this in my accordion and music blog :
http://sylviejamet.over-blog.com/article-4679027.html
Musically to you
Sylvie JAMET, accordionist from France
http://sylviejamet.over-blog.com
by Sylvie JAMET on November 25th, 2006
i would like to see the photo tour
by robert on October 25th, 2007
Robert, here’s the link:
http://www.peterunbehauen.de/p/06-hohner.html
by Chris on October 25th, 2007
Merci de diffuser à vos amis accordéonistes ou clients cette info sur un accordéon volé à un accordéoniste de variété/jazz, Aurélien Noël.
De mon côté je diffuse l’info sur mon blog :
http://sylviejamet. over-blog. com/article- 14261417. html
Sylvie Jamet
Blog Généraliste de Musique et d’Accordéon
http://sylviejamet. over-blog. com
The accordion of a friend was stolen. He sent me this message.
Thank you for your help and forwarding this message.
Les Amis,
Voilà l’accordéon que je me suis fait voler et en voilà la description:
Accordéon CAVAGNOLO Compact+
Noir gris bleu “au torchon” N° 47377 5 rangs
Equipé Kit ODYSEE 3 CAVAGNOLO Pro Orchestra N° 63470
Voilà si vous pouvez faire passer ce mail à tous vos amis musiciens, surtout
aux magasins de musique, lieu où il est susceptible d’être identifié
rapidement.. .
Merci à tous pour le coup de main
Amitiés sincères
Aurélien.
by Sylvie Jamet on November 30th, 2007
i’ve ordered a corona classic supreme ,can you give me more info. about the supreme,what is it made of
thank you
by juan abundis on December 18th, 2007
could you please send the latest catalouge
on all your marinos.to 26 the riggs auchtermuchty
fife scotland. ky14 7dx.thank you
by Bob Elder on March 7th, 2008
Bob, I can’t help you. You need to contact Hohner through their site: http://www.hohner.eu
by Chris on March 8th, 2008
I have got an Hohner Sirena 1. I understand is very old. It is a button accoedion and I would like to know more about it. For instance , When was it made, It is an 80 bass five row of buttons,other accordions I have seen are six rows, which row is missing. My music teacher tells me it is the dom 7 row missing.
Please can aneyone help and aney other imformation Please
Mike
by Mike Watkins on April 28th, 2008