Full/mid-sized accordions

• Loveri
  • Needs two new keys. Major tuning required. Switch repair.
  • Amazing sound. Beautiful green color. Potential to be the primo accordion in new collection. Also, very tight bellows.
• Sonola
  • Really faded in the front, which is sad, because the back is this incredibly rich scarlet color. Nothing to be done about that, really.
  • Great sound and action, now that I cleaned the proliferation of dirt and mouse poop that I found in the faceplate (really? how did MICE get into the front face plate of an accordion to poop in there. It must have been many, since that was a lot of poops). Needs minor tuning, but other than that, it's also quite primo.
• Vittoria
  • Needs mechanical work on left hand buttons
  • Everything otherwise in working order, and only minor tuning needed. Earmarked it for Phil, in return for his tuning work if he's interested.
• Pollina
  • Bellows rotting and in shambles. No sense of even how it plays. Skeptical, because it looks like it may have black mold on the inside. Bad sign, though can't say for sure.
• Honer
  • Needs new pads for right hand keys to stop irritating clicking sound.
  • Clicking may just be a feature of the accordion; if so, I will sell it. Because it's in very good condition, I anticipating being able to recoup the investment for the entire lot from the sale of just this one. Anyway, it's got plastic keys, so I'm not that excited about it. And it's German. What?

Small accordions

• Silvestri
  • Repair / replace bellows. Currently entirely split down the middle. Otherwise, fine, and even fairly well tuned.
• Honer Student
  • Awesome little accordion. Needs a key replaced, the keys to be reset (they're all kind of sticky), and to be tuned.
• Nino
  • Missing quite a few reeds, though lord knows I have spares. May be the first I take a crack at.

Decorative / Collector Accordion

• Gomm Paolo Soprani & Fgli
  • This one is certainly beyond my ability to repair. All mechanical parts need work. It could use some professional help on the chipped inlay. I wrote the Soprani company to ask if they knew how old it is, but they haven't written back. I begin to fear they have traced my email to this address, and are sending spies to steal it back for their collection.
  • Though all the mechanisms seem to be in place, I have yet to eek a sound out of it.
  • It plays! Wow. Not only is it ancient (SERIOUSLY old; certainly pre '20s, basing my chronometry on the WOODEN BUTTON STEMS!!!!), but it makes sounds to boot. Not sweet, sweet music, but noise, most def. Perhaps it is worth thousands of dollars. Perhaps no. Only the Antiques Roadshow can tell.