This video is great, it’s very informative, to the point, and easy to understand. Unfortunately, this was not the reason behind my button being stuck, but it’s still a good video
I wish this video existed three years ago lol, I ended up mashing a button down trying to fix it and bent one of the rods, lesson learned. Video is great, cheers!
Great video. I have an old Hohner Tango II M. My problem is that a large portion of the bass mechanism gets stuck down. I play for fun and I am debating whether to pay the fairly steep price to get a professional repair.
I've got an old Hohner that I've been playing for fun too! Did you end up getting the fix (and was it worth the price lol), since I'm wondering if I should make the drive to the closest repairman to fix it
My accordion is making unwanted noise and it's on the bass side. Like even when I'm not pressing down on anything, the accordion is making noise. Do you think it could be from this issue? I'm not very knowledgeable over accordions.
Without seeing & more importantly hearing the problem, it's hard to diagnose. If you have time, space, & patience, following this video steps disassembling bass side. Study the mechanism as you play. Use a mirror, or play accordion near one and watch. Or setup video camera to record & then play recording the bass button actions. Do so with strap in place but cover off. Take your time & have plenty of light. Eventually, something will stand out that isn't quite right. Sounds as if a button isn't fully released.
Thanks! Very interesting. I am new to this this world. I have a question for all of you. I've bought a Pigini Kirkil and see this: when free-bass configuration there are 3 buttons that fall in the holes for gravity. Is this a failure to repair or is a normal thing in this model? I have looked into the L. H. case and there is no spring neither pin to keep this 3 buttons up. When Stradella bass configuration the 3 buttons emerge. But various buttons fall a little when depressed only one. Is this a failure too? THANKS
A pigini is way out of my comfort zone, those things are made to be luxury. I'm not sure about the free bass but I will tell you this: it's perfectly normal for multiple buttons to fall when one is pressed. There are notes that repeat throughout the stradella system. Press your C button for example and you'll see a few more buttons on the counterbass row fall down.
@@thebaconmanthony the weird thing is the 3 buttons go down. I have seen inside and there isn't mechanical connection but is strange in a such brand as Pigini is.
On my accordion the bottom row has all the rods pushed down instead of seated with together with the levers. I am pretty sure this is why I have notes playing when nothing is pressed. Do you know a fix for this?
@@thebaconmanthony I may have to try this. I just bought a used accordion. I had two piano keys that on the push for one and the pull for the other, would not play the note. However one self corrected itself. But the other has yet to do so. I've only had it for a day and the guy I bought it from said he had not played it for two years and it may be about 60 or 70 years old, so maybe it needs some playing. But I also had a bass key stick. Two are linked some how. Pressing one does not stick, but pressing the other sticks them both. Then it is stuck playing those base notes. I have to pry the bass button back up. It is one of the ones all the way near the end and the outer button row, so if I ignore it I should not have any problems. If I accidently press it, it will lock up again. I do not play professionally and for the time being this is just my practice accordion.
@@tilasole3252 Which piano key note corrected itself, the push or pull? If you open it up to see the reed blocks, the "exposed" reeds are activated on the push. One of my "push reeds" had a piece of wax on it. The "pull reeds", corresponding to the "exposed valves" are on the inside of the reed plate, so those are harder to access. Oftentimes dust will stop the reeds from vibrating, obviously more so for the smaller ones. (The small reeds often don't have valves, btw.) Anyway the first way to troubleshoot it is to carefully take a small flathead screwdriver, get under a reed, and "ping" it a good few times. Not so easily done on the inner/pull reeds, but all the same if you can manually move the reed a little bit then that can loosen up the dust that's stuck in it. As a side note, don't put oil or lubricant on the reeds as a means of preventing rust because this will cause more dust to stick.
@@adamcolbertmusic I cannot much remember. Seems like every single used accordion I have bought since has had an issue with one or two keys. I have one with several switches or instruments and only one of the keys on that instruments/switch does not work, the rest do. Thankfully not on the musette tuning, but if you play on the Master (?) or all instruments at once, you can possibly notice it on that one note. I still do not have a tool to open it properly. I tried once with regular pliers and scratched the first one I have. I will not do it again without the right pliers or at least a decent substitute. And I won't buy online, so my options are limited. Thank you for the reply back though.
@@tilasole3252 I used vice grips to get the pins out, not "vice" clamped on but squeezing with my hand just tight enough to hold on, and I just barely rotated back and forth while I gently pulled in order to shimmy it out. What you can do to avoid scratching the finish is put blue painter's tape around the pin, that way you can pull the tape off afterwards and it doesn't leave a residue on the finish. I didn't do that, but I did use blue painter's tape to stick each pin onto the finish at each hole, firstly so each pin went back into the same hole and also so I wouldn't lose the pins.
