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[ganderbox]

An unusual one on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Jedson-3-row-diatonic-melodeon_W0QQitemZ130323267835QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL?hash=item1e57df40fb&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

From the sellers replies to previous questions, it appears it's in C/C#/F.

I've never come across one tuned like that before. It's like having a C/F with a row of accidentals in the middle!

[HallelujahAl]

Hi Pauline - this one's been kicking around eBay for a little while - but I never really managed to find out what the exact tuning of it is. Weird
AL

[LJC]

I think its a semi-tone box of some sort, I think hes asking too much and as Al says, its been kicking around for quite a while with no real interest it seems.

[Theo]

Quint/semitone mixed systems have been around since the early days.  I have a three row paolo soprani in G/C/B that looks like it was made around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries.

The ebay one might be G/C/C# with the order of the rows confused by the seller.

[ganderbox]

G/C/C# makes a lot of sense, and actually sounds quite useful. However, he definitely said the outside row was C/D on the 3rd button, although he also said the 3rd button on the inside row was G/F, which I assumed was just that he had got them the wrong way round, but of course that may not be the case.

Seems the box was made in Germany for a company in the USA. Is it a Hohner in disguise?

[Theo]

Seems the box was made in Germany for a company in the USA. Is it a Hohner in disguise?

A company in the USA?  I don't think so, the ebay listing says it was made for Jedson, a UK company

[Martin J]

I have a Mastertone two row which I featured here about a year ago with the intent of either refurbing or making into a midi device.  The quality was so poor I gave up.  If this one is the same construction then the reeds are on mouthorgan plates and virtually impossible to work on.  As to who made them I too saw the claim that it was made by Jedson but when you saw my pics Theo you thought mine was a cheap saxony box circa the war years.  I certainly agree with that conclusion since going inside the box.

Sorry to have a downer on this box but as it says Mastertone on it I have to assume it is the same brand.

[ganderbox]

Yes, Theo, you're right.
http://euroguitars.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=501   tells the story.

I thought I'd read they were a firm of distributers in the US...could have been the name J.E.Dallas that confused me. 

[Ted]

I have a BCD, re-worked Hohner Morino Club. Beautiful machine. Ideal for Irish/Scottish, especially for band work with its 10 couplers and 5 sets of reeds. I'd be happy to part with it. Pix on my website, www.tedmcgraw.com under button accordions. The conversion was done by Jimmy Shand Jnr.

[Robert Tromp]

Personally I never heard of the C/C#/F tuning. But a century or more ago other strange inventions have been made. So why not? In Belgium the tunings like C/F/E has been quite popular for some time. But on the other hand, the row with accidentals in the middle seems quite unlogical to me.

[triskel]

From the sellers replies to previous questions, it appears it's in C/C#/F.

Actually, from the sellers replies to previous questions, it appears it's in C/C#/G - which is (I guess) why Theo has suggested maybe the seller has mixed up the rows and it's really G/C/C#.