중고 아코디언 구입시 체크 포인트.

중고 아코디언 구입시 체크 포인트.

 

How to check out the condition of a used piano accordion:
Except for the section about registers, this advice also applies to button accordions and concertinas that have no switches. Have a notepad

and a pencil handy, so you can take notes as you go along, especially when you get around to checking out the reeds.

• Check the condition of the carrying case. Look for broken or missing hardware. A musty smelling case or bellows is an indication
•  that the instrument may have been improperly cared for and stored, probably in a damp basement. Not only is this smell difficult to get rid of,
• but it's possible that mold has caused damage to the wood and leathers on the interior, and the reeds may be rusted.
• - 곰팡이 냄새가 케이스나 벨로우즈에서 난 경우는 습기가 많은 곳에서 관리된 것으로 내부에 녹이 슬었거나 하는 문제 예상.

 

• Check the body of the accordion, looking for chips missing from the corners, cracks in the celluloid or wood, scratch marks indicating abuse, etc.
• Check the condition of all the leather straps, particularly the ends that go through the metal holding brackets on the accordion, top and bottom.
• If the straps are very worn, it's safer to remove them entirely than to risk their breaking while you are wearing the accordion.
• Check for missing or broken hardware - bellows clips, bass feet, strap hardware, register switches, etc.
• - 모서리 부분,표면 등의 상처.
  - 외형상 있어야 할 게 다 있는지, 이상이 없는지
  - 가죽띠,특히 버클부위가 이상 없는지.
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• Check the bellows all around, look for signs of wear, especially on the folds at the bottom and facing the chest of the player (belt buckle wear).
• Check the bellows corners, look for metal corners that are missing or coming loose. Depress the air release button and open the bellows, looking for dirt,
• dust, and lint deep between the folds, and also in the inside corners. The air release button on a piano accordion is found poking through the bass cover
• at the left hand side, towards the top of the accordion when held in playing position.
• 심히 마모된 곳은 없는지 특히 접힌 부분들. 메탈코너는 헐겁거나 상하지 않았는지, 에어밸브를 누르고 벨로즈를 펼친후 먼지나 회손 여부 그리고 접힌부분이
• 상하지 않았는지 체크.
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• Check the Compression: Unhook the bellows clips (usually, 2 metal or leather straps that hold the bellows closed, top and bottom of accordion.
• On some button accordions, these are on the front and back). Hold the instrument, or strap it on, and pull gently on the bellows without depressing
• any buttons or keys. There should be a very strong resistance. With a concertina, it is safer to hold the instrument by one end and allow gravity to open
• the bellows, which should happen very slowly. If it is easy to open the bellows, or if you hear or feel air hissing out anywhere, you have a problem
• with leaks. There will not be enough compression to drive the reeds properly. It may be the bellows themselves, or the gaskets, or a loose reedblock,
• or something else internal, such as your air release button being stuck or the valve pad not seating properly. Obviously, if you also hear notes sounding
• and you are not depressing a key or button, the instrument needs repair.
• 벨로즈 클립을 풀고난 후, 아코디언을 안정되게 잡거나 아님 둘러 맨 후, 어떤 키나 베이스 보턴도 눌르지 않은 상태에서 조심스레(가볍게) 벨로즈를 당겨 봤을 때, 어떤 저항감을 많이 느낄 수 있어야 하고 동시에 중력에 의해 열리더라도 매우 천천히 열려야만 벨로즈에 에어리크가 없는 것이다. 쉽게 열리거나 아님 공기가
• 들어가는 소리가 들리면 이는 벨로즈, 가스켓, 리드 등에 문제가 있다고 봐야 한다. 
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• Look at the keyboard edge on, particularly the white keys. What you're looking for are keys that are out of level. A properly levelled keyboard is
• unusual in a very old instrument, unless it has been well cared for. If you rest a ruler flat across the tops of the white keys, it may make it easier
• to see the ones that are off level. If the keys are only very slightly out of level, it may still be playable, but in most cases, the irregularity will impede
• performance.
  Very old keyboards may have crazing, cracking or chips missing from the keytops, so that you can see the wood beneath. While this may not
• necessarily hamper every player, they do reduce the value of the accordion.
• 건반 특히 흰건반은 수평선상에서 레벨이 모두 맞는가? 심하게 불균형한 경우는 연주능력과 아코디언 가치를 떨어뜨린다.
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• Strap on the instrument so that you can play it and check the reeds. Put your arms through the shoulder straps (one strap goes over each
• shoulder) so that the piano keys are to your right and you bear the weight of the accordion on your shoulders, and slip your left hand through the bass
• strap so that your wrist is between the strap and the left side of the accordion (take off your wristwatch first). If it is a button accordion, the side
• with the most buttons is usually the right hand side.
  
• Your goal is to listen to one treble reed at a time, if you have a separate register for each voice. Often the single-reed registers (switches,
• couplers, stops) will have a single dot on them, like this one below, which denotes the "clarinet" reed.

 

 

• Some 2-voice accordions have no registers at all, because they only make one sound: 2 reeds together (either musette or octave tuning).
• That makes your job a little harder, because you have to listen very carefully for problems as you play each note. If one note sounds much thinner
•  than all the rest, it is probably because one of the two reeds that should be speaking are silent.
• If there are registers on the treble side, you can start by activating the lowest voice first (usually the "bassoon" register, if your accordion has
• at least 3 treble registers). For register identification, see Treble Voices - How to Tell What the Switches Do. An abbreviated chart is given below.
• This is a typical bassoon register marking:

 

 

• Let some air into the bellows with the air button on the left hand side, which should be near your left thumb.
  
• Now play the lowest note on the treble side by itself, first by pushing in on the bellows, then by pulling out. Try this at different pressures. Listen
• for any funny sounds, squeaks, buzzes, spitting, hesitation or sourness. Listen also for the relative tuning of the push and pull notes - they should
• sound precisely the same. If you hear a problem, write down the note name and number of the key (for example, F-1, if this is a 41 key accordion,
• or C-1, if it is a typical 12 bass accordion with 25 keys) and which bellows direction has the problem. If you don't know the note name, just give
• its number.
  
• Proceed all the way up the keyboard in this manner, until you have checked every treble note on this register in both bellows directions,
• both white and black keys.
  
• Now find the register that plays the middle voice (often called "clarinet"), and do the same thing as you did with the bassoon register.
•  It may look like this:

  Then repeat with the high register ("piccolo"), if you have one. You can expect to hear some problems on the higher notes in the piccolo register,

on an old accordion. It may look like this:

 

 

• If you have 2 (or 3) middle voices, you need to also listen to the musette register (it often has 2 dots side by side), like this:

 

 

• After you've checked out all the individual treble reeds, activate each of the switches above the keyboard to see that all the different registers
• are working. Besides the 2-reed musette shown above, you might have any of these (with other possible nomenclature):

 

 

LM	MH	LH	LMH	LMM
harmonium	celeste	organ	accordion	bandoneon

 

MMH	LMMH	MMM	LMMM
musette	master	musette	master

Now set the bass switch (on the left hand side of the instrument) to the "master" setting, if you have bass couplers, and do the same thing with each button:

hold down a single button, pull out with the bellows, push in, listen for problems. There probably won't be any, but there may be some sticking buttons,

that don't pop right back up after they are pushed. It's also very common to have a bass note that sounds all the time. Obviously, this is not right and

will need to be repaired, not to mention that it will make it impossible for you to verify any of the treble notes or check on bellows compression.

• You're all done checking it out as far as its physical condition goes, but if you're a player, you'll want to play it for awhile to listen for
• the intonation, overall tone, volume, dynamic range, balance between the left and right sides, and especially the action.
  
  Do the keys spring up smartly at the end of the notes, can you do rapid staccato triplets or is the action too mushy, are they quiet or
• is there a lot of clicking, is the action too high or too low for your style, is the key width comfortable for you, are the black keys too thin,
• are the white keys too short, etc.
  
  If there is another person with you who can play it, sit a few feet away and listen to them. Often an accordion sounds quite different
• when you're playing it yourself.