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Gromit

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Pavo Real
« on: May 28, 2018, 12:37:17 PM »

Anyone heard of a Pavo Real or Pavoreal button accordion?
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Re: Pavo Real
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Pavo Real
« Reply #2 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) they appear to have been of 1950's East German manufacture.

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Re: Pavo Real
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2018, 07:16:06 PM »

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Re: Pavo Real
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2018, 07:24:58 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.

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Re: Pavo Real
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Pavo Real
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2018, 01:58:41 AM »

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...
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