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Chris Ryall

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Swiss and Tirolean accordions query
« on: July 10, 2009, 07:10:07 AM »

This was prompted by the 'Heligonka' thread elsewhere.  6 years ago I biked to South Switzerland and found one of their accordions in a shop. It looked like ours but had a more complex left end and was not something I was going to pick up and play. Any ideas?

Googled 'Heligonka' and all the sites are Slovakian - is the Swiss type related, or are they ... yet more variants? D3R (on field trip to Lapland)

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Re: Swiss and Tirolean accordions query
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2009, 08:45:55 AM »

here.
There are lots of YouTube examples.
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Re: Swiss and Tirolean accordions query
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2009, 02:46:11 PM »

Am restoring a Heligonka here
Drumkilbo of this forum plays an orgeli - he kindly sent me a recording of his efforts and it blew me away - great sounding instrument and played by a real box genius! Really worth getting in touch with him for more info about this kind of box. Can you tell us a little bit more about it - how many rows did it have, what tuning was it? etc
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Re: Swiss and Tirolean accordions query
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2009, 06:14:18 PM »

The Shwyzerorgli I have has 3 rows on the right hand, the outer 2 are a standard Eflat/Bflat layout. The inner row is an assortment of accientals and reversals.

The left hand end has 18 buttons. These are similar to a small piano accordian -9 pairs of note and major chord, the same push and pull, with G at the bottom, then C, F, Bflat, Eflat etc.

I bought it in Interlaken a few years back, having bought a small 1 row (in F sharp!) at the same shop a couple of years earlier. It is fun to play and has a nice sound, but I haven't really used it a lot. The left end is quite heavy, and it needs a different style of playing with less changes of bellows direction or your left arm tires quite quickly.

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Re: Swiss and Tirolean accordions query
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2009, 12:14:17 PM »

Many thanks for that Al.I'm not sure that a genuine orgeli player from Switzerland would think much of it tho' !
Martin W sums up the instrument well, altho' I have the A/D rather than the flats [ thinking of the fiddler]
Fascinating box tho' and such a distinctive and appealing sound.

Ian.
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