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Pat McInnis:
So I picked up this wee box recently and to be honest, I thought it would be a bit of a wall hanger. It turns out that the bellows are tight as a drum and it's pretty close to being in tune. Well close enough for me anyways. I have turned up very little info on Troubadour boxes. It seems like they made more PAs than anything else. Any info whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
IMG_9247 by Pat McInnis, on Flickr

IMG_9244 by Pat McInnis, on Flickr

Hey,I fixed my links. Maybe there is hope.

Pat McInnis:
So I'm thinking not a popular model? I thought it was a bit different.

Oh well.

Theo:
From the general appearance it looks like a pre-WW2 box made in Saxony. There were many small factories there before the DDR era.  I think (but I don’t know for sure) that many of the factories there used a whole range of brand names, perhaps for retailers, perhaps just to give an illusion of variety.  Much the same sort of thin that happens today where retailers have their own brand name put on instruments of different origins.  For example hobgoblin music uses the name Gremlin on instruments that are made in Italy, China and probably elsewhere too.

Fred:

--- Quote from: Theo on June 26, 2019, 04:39:31 PM ---From the general appearance it looks like a pre-WW2 box made in Saxony. There were many small factories there before the DDR era.

--- End quote ---

Yes. My first thoughts were also that it's from Eastern Germany.
Compare the making of your Troubadour melodeon with the design of other instruments made in that area.
Overall I'm pretty sure Troubadour is a brand from Klingenthal but I can't provide any guarantees for my gut feeling/vague remembrance here.

For example:

"Sybilla-Brand"
http://deerbe.com/imgs/a/e/j/o/n/sehr_altes_mini___akkordeon_ca___28x22x12_cm__21_knopftasten__8_bsse_1_lgw.jpg

Unkown Brand
http://deerbe.com/imgs/a/c/f/c/z/uralte_handharmonika__bandonion__akordeon__musikhaus_hildburghausen_um_1900_1_lgw.jpg

Husberg & Comp
http://deerbe.com/imgs/a/c/e/g/q/knopfakkordeon___akkordeon___sehr_alt___20er_jahre_1_lgw.jpg

Pat McInnis:
Thanks guys. That's a start for sure. I wasn't sure if someone was going to pipe and and tell me that it's total junk and I should run away screaming but it seems like it's worth doing some research on it and it does play quite nice. Maybe trade someone down the road for something a bit more semi-tone.

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