Good evening accordionists
Choosing an accordion is like choosing a car, so you see how important subjectivity is, there are mercedes fans and BMW fans and happy owners of CITROEN or PEUGEOT, they are all cars but ...... ????
Two very important criteria in my opinion apart from the price, 1° think of the weight of the beast, if you make of the ball 11 kg on the shoulders during hours, at 20 years çà passes to 60 çà breaks!Then look at the smaller models or the new carbon body (Accordiola, lighter)
or all digital (5/6 kg approximately, Bonifassi, Caca-digit, Rolland V-ACCORDEON, etc...)
2° what kind of music will you play, big musette, jazzy, variety, folk, ?
and 3° think about the proximity of the S.A.V., there are several manufacturers in France (among others Maugein, Cavagnolo, Accordiola, to mention only that, but there are others and good ones too),
I play on ACCORDIOLA model 04 which is 15 years old and which sounds wonderful (for my personal taste) and which has never caused me any problems, and I also play on a CAVAGNOLO ODYSSEE (all digital HF), which I appreciate especially for its lightness, which I like less at the sound level.
So here is to advise a choice I do not venture, look around you question the accordionists you meet, and in my opinion it is like the rest, the cheap is when a sign of lesser quality, and you will see