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ProfessorGAC

(65,085 posts)
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 07:22 PM Jul 2020

Found A Vintage Accordion Today

My wife and BiLs are selling the house they grew up in.
The middle brother lived there after her parents died, but he's no longer capable of living there alone.
We don't want to be landpeople so we're selling to an outfit that cuts a check, does cleanup, repairs, make it nice and resell. No realtors, no visitors...
Anyway, going through everything that might be important or private. Shredding that and leaving everything else.
In a closet, I found a 3 row by 2 row bass, button Hohner accordion in mint condition. In the case.
Did a fast check on my phone & am seeing $500 to $800. Go figure.
I also found:
A pill bottle full of buffalo nickel.
A pill bottle full of wheat stalk pennies
A Large Silver Yen piece from the 1890s. (Worth around a hundred bucks)
A certificate for 100 shares of a company. Shares were bought at 8¢, now worth 34¢. Brokerage fees will bring value down to $20, maybe.
And that middle brother's Bob Shane Martin D-28. (I knew that was there)
Everything else is crap. But my BiL wants his vinyl. 500 or so ancient vinyl. I don't even have a turntable!
My wife is renting a U-Store, because those are not cluttering my music room.
One more trips, closing on Wednesday.
Gonna have pot money for a couple years!!!

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Found A Vintage Accordion Today (Original Post) ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 OP
Be very careful!!!!! Binkie The Clown Jul 2020 #1
I Never Said I Play It ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 #2
You should learn to play. A good friend of mine years shreds the accordion Lochloosa Jul 2020 #3
Excellent! MLAA Jul 2020 #5
It Is Really Good ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 #6
Treasures! I love, love buffalo nickels 🙂 MLAA Jul 2020 #4
I always ask, at yard sales, if they have safeinOhio Jul 2020 #7
Ultra Cool! ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 #8

ProfessorGAC

(65,085 posts)
2. I Never Said I Play It
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 07:30 PM
Jul 2020

Piano & guitar for me. (Well, and bass & mandolin & flute). But, no accordion.
I'm not even sure how a button accordion works!
I squeezed this one to make the bellows was working. No leaks. But, no! I did not play it. No jail for me!

Lochloosa

(16,066 posts)
3. You should learn to play. A good friend of mine years shreds the accordion
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 07:49 PM
Jul 2020

Here's a sample of JB playing.

ProfessorGAC

(65,085 posts)
6. It Is Really Good
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 08:16 PM
Jul 2020

But, not for me.
I used one with a keyboard on recording of Nowhere Man, several years ago. It was a demo for an acoustic trio we were messing around with.
About as much as I care to do accordion.
Just ain't me.

safeinOhio

(32,696 posts)
7. I always ask, at yard sales, if they have
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 08:53 PM
Jul 2020

any old instruments they don’t play any more. In the last 2 years I’ve scored a Gibson SG, Fender fretless bass a mint 1958 Harmony Broadway arch top. Didn’t pay over $100 for any of them.

ProfessorGAC

(65,085 posts)
8. Ultra Cool!
Sat Jul 25, 2020, 05:51 AM
Jul 2020

The SG is a find.
I'm a Fender scale length guy, but I've wanted an SG since I saw Tony Iommi played one, & I didn't even play guitar then!
I think I'd overplay if I had a fretless bass. I'd be doing Tony Levin on "Not One Of Us" all the time.

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