No, subjectively it sounded louder to me and some other listeners.. By the way a lot of the amateur old timers played Cajun music with wet hohner 114s. And many of the early handmades had hohner 114 reeds tuned dry.

I have seen and played "Cajun" built accordeons with Hohner reeds and Hohner parts.. namely Mouton.

I have also played Hohner HA 114 boxes with drier tuning. I will again suggest it is not necessarily the drier tuning that improves the box so much as Hohner's stock tuning off the bench is grossly inaccurate and by many is called Hohner's "almost" tuning.

I like dry boxes and wet. The older I get the more I prefer a slighty wet tuning.. some call this swing or demi swing.

These tunings make the statement that the instrument is an accordeon and not a diatonic harmonica or concertina.

I have played and owned concertinas that are louder than A Cajun made dry tuned 4 reed box. Namely my Jeffries. A single reed instrument.

I'm going to have to disagree with these "experts".
At least with a Cajun accordion that sound definitely sounds more "defused" on a wet tuned box.

The dry tuned box seems to be able to cut more sharply throught the other instruments in the band (when not using a mic)

There is this extra "honkiness" to the sound that only happens with spot on very dry tuned box.

I'm gonna have to agree with TJ and DP. I've seen those statements made on a Euro accordion forum, but to my ears, a dry tuning sounds louder than wet.

My original C box I had tuned wet. Larry Miller advised against it. He said it would be hard to figure out tunes by ear if my box was wet tuned. He had a few other reasons I can't remember.

I took that box to Augusta with me. Sat in a class and started playing it wet tuned, and everyone turned and glared at me. I believe I pushed in one of the stops. A couple of years later I was at Augusta again. Someone came in and started playing a wet tuned box, and I couldn't hear what the instructor was trying to teach.

I also subsequently had my box tuned dry. And even though I'm playing zydeco now, dry works just fine.

I was at Savoy's shop, testing out an A box. I liked the box except for the tuning. Slightly wet. It felt harsh to my ears. He said he tunes the lower boxes like that because he feels they need it to cut through.

Couple points..

No pretense is made here of being an expert..
The "experts" are those that have been making boxes for generations...I listen to them and the results of their tuning, such as Beltrami.

There is NO SUCH THING as a "very dry tuned" accordeon.
Dry is dry,, it is unison.. anything else is a degree of wetness... be it 1 cent or 22 cents.

"defused" or diffused ?

Anthoer, and more important, point

So why ios it so darned important to be loud. Boxes by nature are loud. I go for tone.. TONE.
Tone is king. Need to be loud ? Get a mic.

Baux why do you find it necessary to post under so many different names. You must have posted under at least five different names in the last five days. Your for mitered corners and cheap boxes. You say you have 4 minutes of time but you take that time under so many different people its hard to believe what s h i t you have to say.