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English melodeonist here, I've honestly considered learning how to build them just because of how prohibitively expensive they are -- especially if you want any
by sourceless 8y ago
English melodeonist here, I've honestly considered learning how to build them just because of how prohibitively expensive they are -- especially if you want anything sufficiently light or in any non-standard tuning!
- robotmay 8y agoThere's dozens of us! My plan is somewhat similar; once I no longer live in a tiny flat I'll start experimenting with some designs. I've restored and tuned a couple of old Hohners, which is good practice. Another 10-20 of those and I think I'll roughly understand how to tune the bloody things properly :| I can highly recommend Emmanuel Pariselle's melodeon building course. I did it a few years ago in France when the pound was particularly strong, and had a lovely French holiday which just so happened to result in a new instrument at the end. It's more of an assembly course than an end-to-end build, but it is really useful for finding out some of the processes, assembly jigs, and just what you can do to the instruments.