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Hi Pia On a recent radio programme it was mentioned that one of the younger band leaders was an expert on the Morino accordions despite his relatively short playing career to date.

A Morino player I met at an accordion club, who had only acquired the instrument two years previously, was dismayed to be told by an expert that he should have bought the other model. He was also told that to get the best from a Morino or Gola accordion you must get it tuned very wide. I don’t know what these experts are listening for, but this certainly does not produce the natural accordion sound.

I am often asked about the differences in various models, as I have played the various VM-models for around fifty years and do not agree with this kind of tuning. As a well-known drummer always comments: “It is good to hear a Morino sounding like a Morino.” Name and address supplied.

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