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Title: Pavo Real
Post by: Gromit on May 28, 2018, 12:37:17 PM

Anyone heard of a Pavo Real or Pavoreal button accordion?

Title: Re: Pavo Real
Post by: Winston Smith on May 28, 2018, 12:46:33 PM

I think they're South American. Anyway, someone was trying to onload a job lot of them on eBay and Gumtree a while ago, they looked like Club models, IIRC. I've noticed one on Gumtree within the past few weeks for relatively small money.
I've just remembered; someone in this country got them for converting to D/G but didn't actually manage all of them, and was selling them off. Maybe he got fed up, I don't know.

Title: Re: Pavo Real
Post by: triskel on May 28, 2018, 07:08:47 PM

Pavo real is Spanish for "peacock", and (judging by this YouTube clip of a Pavo Real PA - akordeon pavo real (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_WTPFMtv2U)) they appear to have been of 1950's East German manufacture.

Title: Re: Pavo Real
Post by: Gromit on May 28, 2018, 07:16:06 PM

Thanks
As E. Jennings said there's one on Gumtree for £75

https://www.gumtree.com/p/accordians/accordion-button-with-orginal-case-c-f-8-button-bass-accordion-accordian-good-play-/1299773246

Title: Re: Pavo Real
Post by: triskel on May 28, 2018, 07:24:58 PM

Quote from: Gromit on May 28, 2018, 07:16:06 PM

As E. Jennings said there's one on Gumtree for £75

That one is in an earlier style and could even be pre-war, but still made in Saxony.

Title: Re: Pavo Real
Post by: Winston Smith on May 28, 2018, 09:18:55 PM

triskel will be correct, I have no doubt!
The South American connection came from (unless my memory is playing tricks on me) the advert where I first noticed them, 7 I think. I'm sure the seller (also the converter) said that he'd imported them from there, somewhere.

Title: Re: Pavo Real
Post by: triskel on May 29, 2018, 01:58:41 AM

Quote from: Edward Jennings on May 28, 2018, 09:18:55 PM

The South American connection came from (unless my memory is playing tricks on me) the advert where I first noticed them, 7 I think. I'm sure the seller (also the converter) said that he'd imported them from there, somewhere.

Highly likely - most of South America speaks Spanish, with the exception of Portuguese in Brazil, and the music in the clip I posted sounds decidedly South American to me...