“Uncle Bob” from the rec.music.makers.squeezebox newsgroup has an interesting project going; he’s building a tuning table for testing accordion reeds and reed blocks. Even better, he’s documenting the entire process on his website with plenty of photos. According tuning is a tricky (but not impossible) art, and this is a fascinating look at what it takes to build a solid test bench.
Be sure to check out some of his other photo galleries, too, including a series where he repairs an old Austrian Styrische accordion and some photos of a quirky Colombo that he recently picked up.
2 Comments:
I admire people who take on obsessive projects like this. I’ll stick to playing though, thanks just the same.
by mister anchovy on April 10th, 2007
wow! i have recently taken up tuning and was looking for something like this!!! yeah, blowing into the reed blocks is not a good idea. LOL.
by Vincent Winterbourne on July 25th, 2007