Re: Beginner - bought an e-bay special - now what?
"Remember, you have 40 different reeds in there got dammit, so you'll need to narrow down the trouble before taking the accordion apart by using the stops to isolate."
Re: Beginner - bought an e-bay special - now what?
Peter - thanks for the note. I found another guy who seemed to know a thing or two about diatonic accordions who was willing to work on it. He noted the reeds were in rough shape - rust on both the top and bottom. He quoted me to manually remove the rust and tune, but that was quite a bit of manual labor, so he was going to look into getting new reeds.
Unfortunately it's been a few weeks and he hasn't been able to track down replacements from Hohner or anyone else for that matter which seems a bit suspect. I told him to forget about the reeds and I'm just going to hold on to this box for now and pick up a newer box to start on.
FYI - some pics of the reeds here: http://imgur.com/a/n5OFv