![]() ![]() Hated them completely and despised the innovations that threatened to put them out (i mean, they had torched Settimo right out of town) So please consider how the old, smokey, snobby established Accordion industry stuck in theirĭungeons up on the Hill rather hated Scandalli. Popular modern Artist endorsements, state of the art electronics that even beatĬordovox and Chicago Music Group at their own game eventually ! ![]() Used new designs that were faster to produce with Shiny Aluminum and bright colors and Their accordions were very modern, much less expensive to build and sell, More accordions out of the original Scandalli factory, and Camerano and the huge, newįarfisa Works outside of ANcona than the entire output of Castlefidardo. NOW consider, if you will, that between S Soprani and Scandalli, they probably produced You can also see these private brands pretty much always had standard Bass mechanismsĪs well (Serenelli and other regional brands will give examples if you dig into the boneyard) Go from Spindle to Scandalli action as well, while retaining their private designed grillework. To the USA market, which is why you will see some of these customers accordions Please remember, S Soprani was a huge supplier of private branded accordions To the drop-out Bass mechanism for their own Scandalli branded line To use them, and continued to do so for many years after Scandalli switched They still had typical Stradella bass actions available and S Soprani preferred New Scandalli individual key action, and so they used them. Or were absorbed with Scandalli, but were using the facilities.Īt first, the factory they used after hours was tooled for outputting bodies with the ![]() Their factory burned to the ground, and before they actually merged What you are seeing is some of the output from Settimo Soprani after There’s probably a very simple explanation for what the clip is there for but I would be interested to know. I see no signs anywhere that microphones have been fitted there are no holes anywhere for jack connectors, volume controls etc. It looks like a clip to slide something into and the sprung tongue along its middle there to hold the ‘something’ secure. The 2nd photo shows a clip under the treble grille. The treble reeds require some minor tuning but their leather valves seem good for a few years yet. The metal bar securing the two larger bass reed blocks had somehow become strained allowing the reed blocks to rise away from the sounding board and leak air when being played. The treble reed block are pencilled 1, 2, and 3 and one of the screws in the treble grille is not original but apart from that these are the only signs that somebody might have been inside. It might be from the 60s but it is in near original condition from what I’ve seen so far. Somebody took a chance on eBay and got this Settimio Soprani 37/3voice 80bass 5voice from Bulgaria. ![]()
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