Professional PHILHARMONIC Accordion

This is a beautiful instrument. The feature summary and the pictures will tell the story. 

• Full size professional accordion in excellent cosmetic and playable condition
• Serial Number 2887
  
• High quality hand finished reeds - kept the original tuning phenomenally well. 
• 4 treble sets of reeds - LMMH
• Dry tuning (no tremolo/musette)
  
• 5 sets of bass reeds
• Double tone chamber (cassotto) - LM
• 41 keys, 19-1/4 " keyboard - white Lucite key tops with smooth edges - a real pleasure to play - serviced in December 2009
• 15 treble switches (4 repeats) - Bassoon, Organ, Bandonion, Harmonium, Accordion, Musette, Violin, Master, Clarinet, Piccolo, Oboe, Bassoon, Bandonion, Organ, and Harmonium
• Palm Master switch
  
• 120 bass - low A configuration
  
• 6 bass registers - the chrome plating is nice and shiny, difficult to show in a picture
  
• Professional glossy black body
• Very clean 17-fold bellows
• New backpad for bellows protection
  
• New leather padded shoulder straps - 3" wide for comfort - the best on the market
• ~26 lb
• Very good original hard-shell case
  

Looking at some design details I would assume this accordion was made in the late 50s or early 60s. It is hard to believe it could be so clean and shiny with all original parts in like-new condition after all these years. At some point the instrument must have been amplified. All cables and microphones have been removed. There are 3 small holes on the grill from the Tone/Volume potentiometers and the pick-up. They are now covered by black tape. You need to be close to the instrument or look at a particular angle to see the tape. I've shown it in the pictures below. The interior looks fantastic. Please, note the neat mechanism for the indicators on top of the accordion showing the current reed configuration for treble and bass. The reeds are pristine, never tuned after the instrument left the factory. As a matter of fact, I couldn't find any tuning marks on the outer surface of the reed tongues. This proves a very precise tuning job on the provino (before the reed plates were first waxed to the blocks) and only fine tuning inside the accordion.

Enjoy the pictures and if you like the instrument give it a new home.

New shoulder straps and bellows protector.





Beautiful Lucite key tops with nice round edges - keyboard was adjusted for a 4 mm travel and feels like brand new.


Bellows fold are lined up with silk.


The serial number is proudly displayed on each reed block, sound boards, tone chamber, treble and bass resonators ...






Pristine reeds, excellent leathers and wax...


Beautifully finished interior ....











 
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