Petosa Accordions Shops

In 1922, Carlos Petosa began passionately began crafting accordions by hand in Seattle, one at a time, giving birth to a legacy that he would pass down to his son Joe, grandson, Joe Jr., and great-grandson Joey III, who would continue to carry on the same tradition spanning nearly a century of accordion manufacturing.

The Petosas had the foresight to expand the business in 1946 by starting a factory in Castelfidardo, Italy, where PETOSA accordions would be manufactured with the same painstaking detail to quality and craftsmanship, then shipped to Seattle for final adjustments, tuning and customized for each individual customer. When the instruments arrive in Seattle from the factory, they are taken apart and thoroughly checked and tuned to ensure every instrument with the name PETOSA on it is in perfect condition before delivery to the customer.

Would you like to see some of the antique accordions from years’ past? Then you’ll want to visit Petosa’s museum, the only one of its size on the West Coast. There are over 140 accordions in the museum, with about 100 accordions on display. Some of these accordions date back prior to 1900.