Glenn,

I am very happy 'swapping' my castagnari for the acadian I got from you. Talking about playing Cajun, of course. It's just much more fun, especially when playing on the knee with the thumbstrap only. Then weight doesn't matter, rather have a heavier and more stable one, is my opinion.

See you in Saulieu?

Gus

See you in Saulieu.. you can give me lessons ! ..

I may have a couple interesting boxes with me.. an Acadian done "Sterling style".. and a Bb box.. depends on the wife's OK..

I mainly play triple row..

G

I am very happy with my two Castagnari Max.
They are both instruments of high quality and play very fine and also very loud.
The air-button is situated on another place, but I'm used to it and I have some trouble if I get a LA-box to play on.
The box is smaller than a LA-box, but the distances between the buttons are bigger!!! (Gus wrote)
Also the grip on the bass-side is bigger and not rounded.
Since they are tuned dry and cajun they sound a lot better.
The D-box plays lighter than my C-box.
I wonder if that's allways with a C and a D-box ?
When I'm lucky to play on a Savoy, Miller or Martin, I realize that the LA-boxes are different.
In the meantime, I keep on dreaming of having one myself.

THAT'S the ticket, Albert! He's right, guys. This is pretty funny...

hello sarah, welcome to the madness, lol Thank goodness for the good ole ACADIAN

I bought a D Acadian once... opened it up and was shocked to see " Re " written in Italian calligraphy inside. This Acadian, was much different than any I'd played or owned. I can't say it was Italian, and wouldn't support unproven claims of Italian Acadians..but I must admit the writing inside did come as a shock.

On a separate note: if you buy reedblocks for triple rows from Hohner, you'll see some pretty strange, non-native English calligraphy on the boxes indicating tone and serial numbers. My Chinese students write just like what I see on the boxes. The German calligraphy on the inspection tags is completely different.

CSI Italy . G:)))

. . . wanted to add, that I did not claim that Marc farmed out Acadians to Italy. I do know it has been a widespread rumour ( urban myth?? ) for many years now.

. . . I don't think it really matters. What would matter is if some Euro builder were cloning Acadians. If Marc did a deal with some builder, then, he must have known what he was doing.

G.( proud owner of two Acadians..: )))

proud collector/owner of two MARC SAVOY ACADIANS, ( one ten button, one nine button (lil red), one nine button BON CAJUN & one POINTE NOIR courtesy of larry( merci beaucoup mr. english )

Albert,

I particularly like the red Acadian 9 buttons, very pretty.

Looks like an oldie.

Claude.