I wrote Piano Accordion Owner's Manual and Buyer's Guide to help accordionists learn more about their instrument. My goal is to save old accordions and I stand ready to personally assist anyone wanting to learn about accordion repair. My website,, is dedicated to helping everyone learn to repair accordions. Each year at the Cotati Accordion Festival I perform "accordion autopsies", dissecting an old accordion and explaining to anyone who will listen how accordions work and what goes wrong with them. I have been playing accordion for sixteen years, and repairing them for thirteen years. The price is $25.00 plus shipping and handling, which varies depending on where you live: Box 3238, Napa, CA 94558, or order online. For a convenient single source of all you need to know about acoustic piano accordions, order this book, either by mail from the author, George Bachich, Accordion Revival, P.O. PIANO ACCORDION OWNER'S MANUAL AND BUYER'S GUIDE fills a void in the available accordion literature. This book contains useful new information for everyone, beginner to life-long accordionist. The glossary alone comprises a quick course on how accordions are constructed and how they function. Points made in this 164 page soft cover book are amply illustrated with over 40 color photographs.
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It explains how to identify and evaluate musette tuning, reed quality, handmade reeds, and how to decide which accordion is right for you. It clearly explains how accordions work, what goes wrong, problems to watch out for when buying an accordion, how to quickly identify reed configurations, tone chambers and mute chambers, how to diagnose and locate air leaks, how to safely open and inspect your accordion, and how to recognize when reed valves need to be changed. PIANO ACCORDION OWNER'S MANUAL AND BUYER'S GUIDE by George Bachich is the accordion book you've been waiting for. PIANO ACCORDION OWNER'S MANUAL AND BUYER'S GUIDE