Melodeon.net Forums

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome to the new melodeon.net forum

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: How It's Made: Accordion  (Read 3663 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

falcanary

  • Member
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 14
How It's Made: Accordion
« on: November 04, 2008, 05:40:52 AM »

Logged

Steve_freereeder

  • Content Manager
  • Hero Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7511
  • MAD is inevitable. Keep Calm and Carry On
    • Lizzie Dripping
Re: How It's Made: Accordion
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2008, 09:23:51 AM »

Very interesting. Thanks for posting the link.
This one is possibly more relevant to us here. It has many similarities with the 1-row 4-stop melodeon that some of us made recently in Stowmarket, Suffolk.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQglJZFjUsc
Logged
Steve
Sheffield, UK.
www.lizziedripping.org.uk

falcanary

  • Member
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 14
Re: How It's Made: Accordion
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2008, 09:27:56 PM »

Yep, i posted that one also some time ago.   Enjoy both of them.
Logged

Skipy

  • Regular debater
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 171
Re: How It's Made: Accordion
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2008, 12:45:22 PM »

I've just watched both the video's, Fascinating!

However, here's one for Theo or Rees. I can understand that filing a little off a reed would raise it's pitch but how would you lower the pitch of a reed?

I just wondered.

Skipy



Logged
Saltarelle Solstice 12 B/C/C#, Hohner Trichord III B/C/C#. 

I can't imagine life without my melodeons!

an bosca ceoil

  • Respected Sage
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 347
Re: How It's Made: Accordion
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2008, 01:48:40 PM »

When one of you answer this one please add your thoughts on the use of solder/ untempering.
Logged

Theo

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13727
  • Hohner Club Too
    • The Box Place
Re: How It's Made: Accordion
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2008, 06:38:25 PM »

but how would you lower the pitch of a reed?


You file or sand metal off the lower third or so of the reed.  That weakens the spring effect and slows the vibrations = lower pitch sound.

When one of you answer this one please add your thoughts on the use of solder/ untempering.
I try to avoid using solder on all but the lowest reeds, those which have weighted tips anyway.  I have once or twice seen reeds more or less ruined by having solder applied to the lower third of the reed which in theory does raise the pitch, but also ruins the reeds response, making it sound dull and weak.

Untempering?  Tempering is the heat treatment process applied to steel after it has been hardened to reduce the hardness by a controlled amount to make it useful for its intended purpose.  So if any thing soldering might temper it more, ie make it softer

Reed steel is tempered at temperatures higher than soft solder needs to melt, so using a good electric soldering iron you are unlikely to adversely affect the reed tongue.
Logged
Theo Gibb - Gateshead UK

Proprietor of The Box Place for melodeon and concertina sales and service.
Follow me on Twitter and Facebook for stock updates.

Skipy

  • Regular debater
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 171
Re: How It's Made: Accordion
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2008, 04:53:43 PM »

Thanks Theo,

I'm glad you never said "I'll give you three guesses?"

1. A blob of Blu-tack.
2. A smear of glue sprinkled with filings from another reed that was too high.
3. Replace the Reed.

WRONG!!  :D

Each to their own trade, eh?

Skipy
Logged
Saltarelle Solstice 12 B/C/C#, Hohner Trichord III B/C/C#. 

I can't imagine life without my melodeons!

Theo

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13727
  • Hohner Club Too
    • The Box Place
Re: How It's Made: Accordion
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2008, 06:02:34 PM »

Actually a blob of blutac does work, and can be a useful temporary measure.
Logged
Theo Gibb - Gateshead UK

Proprietor of The Box Place for melodeon and concertina sales and service.
Follow me on Twitter and Facebook for stock updates.

Skipy

  • Regular debater
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 171
Re: How It's Made: Accordion
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2008, 06:18:46 PM »

Actually a blob of blutac does work, and can be a useful temporary measure.

Oh! Right! OK!  :o  Well, there's hope for me yet. I can feel a new trade coming on!

Right then Theo, if you get so much work that you can't cope, you know where to point them.....  ;)

Skipy
Logged
Saltarelle Solstice 12 B/C/C#, Hohner Trichord III B/C/C#. 

I can't imagine life without my melodeons!
Pages: [1]   Go Up
 


Melodeon.net - (c) Theo Gibb; Clive Williams 2010. The access and use of this website and forum featuring these terms and conditions constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions.
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal