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The Mouldy Accordion.
S. Heslop:
Well I got the reeds onto the first block, and a couple of them are almost entirely silent, and a few more don't perform too well. Some require alot of air to start vibrating, and some stop vibrating with too much pressure.
Also i've been testing the reeds by blowing into the holes, which has been putting some condensation on the reeds. I might make one of those bellows tables for testing them because it seems that the solution to the reed problems is to spend a good while carefully bending the reeds in or out till they start working properly. So I guess the estimation of having it done by tomorrow evening isn't gonna work out. Especially since after 'voicing' the reeds i'm going to probably need to re-tune them.
Meldonmech:
Well Simon, you have come up with some very interesting facts regarding accordion restoration, many of which could be used in other applications. Looking forward to the next installment. I assume you can play the accordion.
Cheers David
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: Meldonmech on July 08, 2015, 06:19:45 AM ---I assume you can play the accordion.
--- End quote ---
I've never even touched an accordion before now. That said they don't seem too hard to play, relatively speaking, but it'll probably still take a while to pick it up.
S. Heslop:
Got the second rack done.
Started by cleaning it up with a chisel and coarse cross cut file. The old wax is hard enough to not be a problem but the fresher stuff would gum up any cutting tools. I've heard of people dissolving it off in buckets of acetone, but I couldn't get a small sample to dissolve in acetone at all. The wax does get a bit sticky on the surface after brushing the methylated spirits on it, but I still can't imagine soaking the wood in alcohol overnight would do it any good even if it did manage to dissolve the wax off.
The wax was applied with an eye dropper. It stays molten for a considerable amount of time and I had no problems with it going hard inside the dropper. I might try seeing if i've got a working syringe somewhere to apply it to the treble side though, since the gaps between those reeds are much tinier.
Anyways that's 2 out of 4. The reeds in this one all sound fine too.
krv3000:
hi brill don't no if you no this but theirs a program on the TV named haw its made they did one on the accordion
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