Re: Different brands

bummer about having to give up your Atlantic

Paul Kriwaczek wrote:
> 
> I have come down to two:
> Excelsior 1272, or Fisitalia 34.45.

Have personally sampled both brands smaller sizes during visits 
to CastleFi, and can state with certainty that either will 
give you a good, solid accordion as well as 
your moneys worth. 

The Excelsior is a tried and true 
design, many models in continuous production for
a handfull of decades - and even the small ones 
sound like an Excelsior and play nicely. 

the FisItalia will give you options, as they are a 
smaller company and more able to respond to special 
requests. You would be able to get them to price 
it with a better reed, for instance, and if you say 
"put a couple hundred more labor into the action" 
thay can say yes and add more felt, fit and finish.
(and you can go pick it up in person)

I suppose since you were MIDI'd you've considered the reedless
 and rejected it?  

BYT... have you considered just pulling the Bass reed-blocks 
out to lighten the Atlantic? and just play MIDI bass

Ciao                                 Ventura