Once seen as a one man operation, and admitting to me a decade ago that 'he had no apprentice in train' - things have changed at Maison Gaillard. Spotted this checking weights for the VdAa thread …
"The rumour of my early retirement has been going around for a few years now. It is
entirely groundless. I have no plan to retire before 2025 and if I cease my activity then,
it will be after full training of my successor. So, there will be no interruption of production"
See http://www.gaillardaccordions.com/handmade-accordeon-workshop.htmlThat means in effect that 'Gaillard' has become a brand in the same sense as the Castagnari brothers did back in the 1920s
