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hello i am interested in building a diatonic button accordion. Does anyone know any websites, shops etc that would sell reeds bellows basically all the components of a diatonic button accordion
also any instructional websites, books etc would be a help aswell

# Posted on April 20th 2008 by today

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A good thing would be to get an old cheap box to use the parts from. If you want top quality, you'll probably need to get the stuff from italy. There's a yahoo group about building one row boxes, should have loads of info there.

# Posted on April 20th 2008 by Larshansen

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I am going to have a go myself, my Mengascini? irish bouebe is well built and seems a good start to copy.
links;
http://www.cgmmusical.co.uk/index.html
http://www.talkingreeds.co.uk/
http://www.fbc-accordion-club.org/reeds.htm
http://www.m-machine-metals.co.uk/Online%20catalogue.htm
There is a bespoke bellows manufacturer in Italy aswell but I cannot find the link.
Any others, please pass them on.

# Posted on April 20th 2008 by tlittlewazzock

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And I thought I was adventurous planning on a mandola !

# Posted on April 20th 2008 by Guernsey Pete

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http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/boxbuilder/

# Posted on April 20th 2008 by tlittlewazzock

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I got parts to repair an old button accordion from cgmmusical,
(see tlittlewazzock's link above), and found them very helpful.

# Posted on April 21st 2008 by cathycook

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Hi

This is probably far too general but you never know, someone might be your first degree of freedom if you contact them:
http://www.merton.ac.uk/content.asp?co=30

Max

# Posted on April 21st 2008 by maxF

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Try http://info.melodeon.net/ - I use this site quite a lot, as I'm trying to learn the thing. It covers not just melodeons, but all diatonic accordions and there have been a number of threads on various building projects.

# Posted on April 21st 2008 by Ebor_fiddler