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Dick Rees

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Hohner Verdi
« on: May 14, 2020, 06:50:16 PM »

Anyone know the system here and probable age of such a box?

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Re: Hohner Verdi
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2020, 07:07:34 PM »

Wow, I had no idea Hohner made garmons at all, let alone with the Verdi brand.  Ми-Мажор is E major... and it looks like a khromka, the most common type of garmon in Russia, unisonoric and diatonic.  More info on layout here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khromka#Constructions
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Re: Hohner Verdi
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2020, 07:17:20 PM »

Oh - that's interesting!
The layout of the unisonoric khromka is a bit like an English concertina. The outside row has notes on the lines of the treble stave, the inside row has notes in the spaces of the stave. The EC has the line notes on the LH side and the space notes on the RH side. Seeing as I play the EC reasonably well, perhaps I could learn to play a khromka without too much trouble. It would be fun to try anyhow.  (:)
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Re: Hohner Verdi
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2020, 07:19:43 PM »

Wow, I had no idea Hohner made garmons at all, let alone with the Verdi brand. 

And at 10:22 in the film there is a Hohner Carmen [? Carmen III]
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Re: Hohner Verdi
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2020, 07:32:15 PM »

So interesting - that they made variants of the Verdi/Carmen PA, and also that they must be fairly rare.  I'm guessing these were made during the 50s-80s, while Germany was divided?  I wonder if they were marketed in East Germany, or Russia.  Hohner appears to be based in the west (Trossingen), but maybe they had other departments.  Wikipedia focuses almost exclusively on their harmonicas, with one paragraph about accordions...
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Re: Hohner Verdi
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2020, 08:13:55 PM »

So interesting - that they made variants of the Verdi/Carmen PA
And a Student model. I would be very surprised if they were made by Hohner. I would suppose that someone converted them from normal PA’s to garmons without any involvement from Hohner.
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