I get surprised all the time...I can pick out Falcon's easier than any other accordion...the others I find, are much more similar than different. I am not even going to try. I heard a recording of his early this morning on KRVS...the accordion sound was real dull...didn't sound like all the other recordings I had heard of him. Anyone else hear that this morning?
Seems like a very tricky thing to identify an accordion from a recording, since room acoustics, the microphone used, and equalization are all going to affect the way an accordion sounds.
S'b'B
Octa used to play a Crown brand which I think was made by John E Hebert. That is most likely what he used to record too. Marc Savoy thought he used an F accordion on the older record by Arhoolie.