Heligonka Progress

Work proceeds at a steady pace – am almost halfway through a complete bellows repair job, and I’ve now managed to replace the valves on the bass chord reeds – so that means that the entire bass end should be sorted. Famous Last Words!!!   I decided in the end to replace the majority of [...]

Heligonka Restoration Projeckt!

Ok – for starters. I recently got hold of an old Jacub Konrady Heligonka (accordion). It’s a really old – and probably not that brilliant an instrument. But I’ve always wanted a Helikon bassed box so, since it only cost me 50 euros I guess its not a problem if I make a mess of [...]