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Re: Bayou brand accordion for sale, key of C

Price reduced to $400 + shipping.

Re: Bayou brand accordion for sale, key of C

good afternoon Byron,
I sent an inquiry about the Donald Thibodeaux recently. You stated you wanted $400.00 plus shipping.
I wonder if its still available and have you gone down on the price any?
I would be interested if you might include shipping as part of the total cost.
If not where are you located - I might be interested in a short road trip purchase it??
Joe Thibodeaux
jomari70884@yahoo.com
thanks and waiting a reply


Re: Bayou brand accordion for sale, key of C

Hi, Joe,
I ended up buying the accordion from Byron.

I am in the process of restoring it now.

If you are interested in seeing some of the progress, it can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/dana.mandell/posts/10209881763441293/

Best regards,
DP

Re: Bayou brand accordion for sale, key of C

I ended up buying the accordion from Byron.
Most of the issues were created by someone that tried to "fix" the accordion.
They put some of the flappers back on upside down and tried to use double stick foam tape as felt pads.

I cleaned up the keyboard, repaired the broken flappers, added new pads and leather and adjusted the flappers and keyboard spring tension.

The valves on the bass side are also old and dried up.

The reeds are out of tune and the reed gaps are off,
I'll start on the inside next week.

Should have something playable soon! :)

DP

Re: Bayou brand accordion for sale, key of C

Dana, this is very interesting. I'm anxious to see the next episode!



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