Thanks to you all for your comments on this, as well as for your shared stories and ideas on how I might be able to find it. My only point in posting here was to share with all of you fellow Cajun accordion lovers what has happened just in case anyone sees it anywhere or has heard about it. I'm assuming, anyway, that y'all are like I am, and get all excited every time you see a Cajun accordion and have to check it out, right?

Ain't that the truth? You can't see, hold, have, or try too many of them. That's one of the many reasons Balfa Camp is so much fun: you can try out a whole slew of them there.

Best of luck on your search, Sarah! Please let us know what you turn up.

The story sounds incomplete.

If you cared about the accordeon, why did you give it to someone to "hold" ?
Why did you not contact them earlier if the instrument was important?
Wouldn't the people who had it be the best source of information on its current loccation ?

Well, to tell you the truth, my dear Watson, it is all just a cleverly thought of research for market value, story ideas and plot. This for a new Conan Doyle "Who Dun' It" detective book called "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Acadian Accordion". It will be published late 2013, and revenues are meant to help out Marc and family covering the restoration costs caused by the flooding of the Savoy Music Center ... see: http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20130112/NEWS01/301120308/The-show-will-go-Savoy-Music-Center - Nout