I never knew just how complicated making one of these could be. It's amazing work, and beautiful too. I'm not surprised by the cost, the attention to detail is amazing.

For those wondering, the opening piece is Scarlatti: Sonata K.450. Also, the definition of 'free bass' accordion isn't that there are buttons for the right hand; it's just whether the left hand bass buttons are Stradella or chromatic. The right hand can have a keyboard or button board. (I'm a pianist and composer who has played some accordion and written for the instrument) Also, as a pianist, no instrument seems expensive. Investing in a good piano is like mortgaging a home 😂

@pliat

Жыл бұрын

Not true, there are more than one type of free bass, the type they are speaking about is the chromatic button layout, but there are others, quint bass for instance. Free bass (in my understanding) is when you are able to play multiple octaves of single notes on the bass board. There are also accordions with both free bass and stradella at the same time, like some of the large 185 bass Hohner morino series.

@hanellipsis

Жыл бұрын

@@pliat The video says that the type of bass determines what the right hand is playing. That's the inaccuracy I'm pointing out.

@pliat

Жыл бұрын

@@hanellipsis yes, and i was saying that there are types of free bass that are not in chromatic scale.

@katsarosfiat

Жыл бұрын

Well try tell this to someone who gets paid 700$ a month.

@hanellipsis

Жыл бұрын

@@katsarosfiat I don't understand the point of that comment. People buy what they can afford. Someone who makes less than a livable wage wouldn't be in the market for something like this. You can also get a car for $500 or $1.2M. You can spend lots on food, or as little as possible on food. You could even afford something very nice in one market but be nowhere close to something else in another market.

Imagine how satisfying putting one of these together must be. With all the precise knowledge in your head of exactly where each tiny piece needs to go; it would be like putting together a beautiful 80,000 piece puzzle that functions as a work of art you can play music on. Fantastic workmanship, bravo.

@copbabycombo1311

Жыл бұрын

No, it would be very tedious.

@sentientcardboarddumpster7900

9 ай бұрын

​@copbabycombo1311 I bet #10-20 were satisfying and then it's tedious 😂

How in the world did anyone get the idea to make an accordion?

@davidbostock6933

Жыл бұрын

Like most things, someone gets something, and gets irritated by shortcomings they improve upon. Actual ancestor of accordion was pretty crude and simple. Another early reed instrument not in mass production for well over 100 years and more like a harmonica was the Flutina that uses a single reed per tone. Accordion can easily have 4 reeds per tone for tremelo or sound "richness" and combinations switched in and out by register buttons. Early accordion advances were in Stradella Italy, stradella invention may have been by an Italian living in California USA, who sold idea to manufacturer in Stradella who filed European patent in his own name.

@rubiconnn

Жыл бұрын

I often think this about bagpipes. Someone really wanted to play multiple pipes at once and had a spare sheep's stomach laying around.

@theidioticbgilson1466

Жыл бұрын

same reason people made the otomatone and the melodica

@LuukSwinkels

Жыл бұрын

A long history. Though it never started like this. It start very primitive and small being the diatonic accordion. Before that it was even more limited

@NahIdSword

4 ай бұрын

my teacher told me it was created in china cuz they wanted music on the ships but getting a piano on one and playing it is a no go bcz of the space it required so they decided to make an instrument that could do all a piano could. so they made an accordion which originally had a piano keyboard on both sides but playing on a keyboard while controlling the air flow is nigh impossible so they instead added bass buttons instead.

at 2:50 I can’t believe that guy isn’t using a block of wood to push that piece of wood through the table saw, I guess he is just that confident. but woah

Beautiful put together production! I'm 67 yrs old Rock and Metal musician and I've watched Mariachi and Cajun performers on this incredible sounding instrument even going back to the Lawrence Welk TV Show. What a concept! What a moving art! What workmanship! What genius! Now I know how Les Paul got his glue for his guitars to get that glassy sound and made it clear that Leo Fender never find out what kind of glue was used on the Les Paul guitars. (However...Leo Fender made it clear as well that Fender guitars were made to be easily repaired even by a beginner or professional guitarist with no technical experience!) I love this video...Peace be with you!

@iamhe999

8 ай бұрын

Norteno, and Ranchero is the Mexican music you love,,

Come to think about it, the accordion is like a portable organ. This so awesome. Thanks 😊

@alessandrorossi1294

Жыл бұрын

Yes, they both work by pushing air through reeds! Same with harmonicas too.

@XMarkxyz

Жыл бұрын

And it has stops too with different registers

@mstalcup

Жыл бұрын

It actually is a type of organ.

Great timing, i just bought a mint condition pigini ellegarde special 96 bass, c griff, with converter (handmade reeds too). It is practically new, it even had the plastic still on the bass strap, and i got it for £4000. Buying an equivalent new from the factory would be at least £8500. I had to make a trek up to Scotland to buy it though.

@alessandrorossi1294

Жыл бұрын

Amazing find, hope you enjoy!

@Chr.U.Cas2216

Жыл бұрын

👍👌👏 Congrats! Best regards, luck, health and a lot of joy!

@gsernar6491

Жыл бұрын

Mao photo 🤢💩

@accordionland1205

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations, you were at the right place at the right time. I have to be happy with an older Giulietti, but they still sound ok. What's most important for me is the opportunity it gives me to play Baroque & classical music as the great composers wrote it, only it sounds much more beautiful with the accordion's "woodwind" texture.

Wow, gotta appreciate the attention to detail Italians give to their products.

@juresem4006

Жыл бұрын

look at slovenian accordions look much better sound better...

@mrchandu8211

Жыл бұрын

@@juresem4006 hh

@riccardoalicino8575

Жыл бұрын

Beh siamo i migliori per un motivo

@jaremakarwowski1574

Жыл бұрын

There is nothing good Italians can do

@jeanlafrance8746

Жыл бұрын

@@jaremakarwowski1574 lol, that's uncalled for. They make beautiful cars

6:06 the visual is misleading, the narrator is discussing Stradella bass vs free bass systems, but the visualization shows a piano accordion vs a chromatic button accordion. You can actually have anything on the right hand side (piano keys, chromatic buttons, or diatonic buttons) that won’t determine whether it is a Stradella bass or free bass because the bass distinction is determined by what’s on the inside of the left hand side. They probably chose to show two different right hand sides (piano vs chromatic button) because there’s no guaranteed way to understand if an accordion is Stradella bass or free bass just by looking at it.

Hats off for this Beautiful accordion makers....RESPECT!!!.

Fantastic documentary!! So interetining!

Sounds beautiful 🕊

Incredible reporting. The world must know! Amazing and ground breaking investigation. Thank you for the insight.

Tone wood is special select. That’s why it is so expensive.

Considering all the work that goes into this accordion, I honestly think that it quite cheap for someone who has a passion for this particular instrument

@1rstTry

Жыл бұрын

*inexpensive

@EndlessDelusion

Жыл бұрын

There are a lot of cheap accordions on eBay but to anyone thinking about buying one, the reeds will need rewaxing and retuning if it is 40+ years old and it is a LOT of work. There are so many other things that can go wrong with them- air leaks, below leaks, sticking keys, keys being uneven.. they're like old Rolls Royces- expensive when new and cheap when sold because they're so expensive and time consuming to repair to how they should be.

@pliat

Жыл бұрын

@@EndlessDelusion if you take care of an accordion, and you play it often, it will last for a very long time. But if unplayed, it will probably get mold and out of tune.

@intermodus2180

Жыл бұрын

How much to get an accordion player to STOP. ?

@katsarosfiat

Жыл бұрын

40000$ cheap?

Before I clicked on the video, I knew it was a Pigini. They are some of the best acoustic accordions out there. Wish I could afford one, but I guess I'll just settle with my Roland FR-7B V-accordion.

One square meter of cedar costs 5,000 euros? I got to sell my closet!!!

@HobbyOrganist

Жыл бұрын

Sounds crazy since in the USA we use 2" thick dedar boards for stuff like DECKS and planters! and I know it's nothing near that price. Cedar is very fast growing, very soft kind of "trashy" wood, Mohogany is a very pretty wood used for high quality furniture and things, but even that only costs around $20 a board foot, a meter is a little larger than a yard, so $20x9 is under $200 for a square yard of mohogany while ebony costs around $105 a board foot, but even that per sq yard would only be about $1,000, and maple which was also mentioned is commonly used for FLOORING in US homes, it's not a valuable wood either.

@metrodrumstv

Жыл бұрын

They may have meant per m3. That would make more sense.

@alessandrorossi1294

Жыл бұрын

@@metrodrumstv pretty sure that's it, there's no such thing as a square meter of a 3d object.

@toomanymarys7355

Жыл бұрын

​@@alessandrorossi1294 Board feet is how wood is usually sold.

@68sgstandard

13 күн бұрын

Cubic meter, not square meter. Acoustic cedar is quite different than the inexpensive type that is commonly used for decks, etc.

Facinating, When a video on the bandoneon?

I believe them that their process produces a better sound than other instruments. I just wish I was able to detect and appreciate that difference. (my hearing has shortcomings).

@davidbostock6933

Жыл бұрын

Most who take the time for ear training with a phone app are probably surprised to find thier hearing shortcomings, including professional musicians. Also ear wax, doesn't take much to reduce hearing, I don't know if there is any information on getting all of it out safely, without risking damage to hearing membrane.

@fearsomefawkes6724

Жыл бұрын

Even with better hearing you'd never be able to appreciate the full sound by watching a KZread video because of the compressio

Hey BI team, can you do a high end hifi tube amplifier next time? Great video!

Very good 👍

Awesome.i haven't seen in my life.

40,000 euros! I have a new appreciation for this instrument.

Amazing Video

Now THAT was amazing...............................................................

The accordion is an amazing instrument!

@dncviorel

Жыл бұрын

It's ok, has its own place. I don't like it that much, it sounds somewhat trivial. For folk music I find it amusing and refreshing, other than that...not much in my list.

2:55 i think osha has somethig to say

Nice video.

Seems the answer is quite clear no? They are so expensive because they are of absolute high quality! Huge merit!

It takes exquisiteness like a doctor to make and play such instruments!

7:55 Her hair gets stuck in the accordion

@pliat

Жыл бұрын

It happens to me all the time, hurts.

It has the mother of pear, it got to be the mother of all accordions.

Ain’t no osha in Eeetahleee. That guy on the table saw was freaking me out dude

The best 👍👍👍

I've been learning guitar for a few months, I thought 6 strings was a little complicated at first... I wouldn't even know where to begin playing on an accordion. They look extremely complicated to use, so I got to push this button push this key too and squeeze it? I'll pass, I thought playing a drum set was hard. 😂

@thebaconmanthony

Жыл бұрын

I have been playing for a year and it's not that hard actually. The buttons on the left hand seem hard but they become very simple after a short period of time. It's basically a portable piano.

@gazelle1467

Жыл бұрын

Having more buttons actually makes it simpler. Each button makes a simple sound in an intuitive layout. If you think of a guitar like having 6 buttons that can each be pressed in 20+ different ways, that's actually a more complicated way of doing it.

@XMarkxyz

Жыл бұрын

@@thebaconmanthony I play the piano but I'm sure I would get lost very fast with an accordion, at least on the models without piano-like keys

A square meter of cedar costs 5000 euros there??? WOW!! in the USA we use it for outdoor DECKS and planters! At work I'm building cedar swell shades for a pipe organ going to Sydney, we buy 2"x6"x 20 foot cedar boards to construct them and they don't cost anything remotely like 5,000 euros for one meter!

@physics77guy

Жыл бұрын

i think its the composite not the cedar alone as mentioned the wood used is composite combination or mahogany, cedar and maple and other secret woods

@GerhardusGeldenhuis

Жыл бұрын

I think they misspoke and the cost is per meter cubed.

@alessandrorossi1294

Жыл бұрын

@@GerhardusGeldenhuis Yes I was thinking the same thing, I think it's per meter cubed.

@toomanymarys7355

Жыл бұрын

different type of cedar

Nice

Anyone else seeing only the top quarter of the video with the rest blurred out and with links to sign up for Business Insider membership plans ?

Accordions are amazing instruments! Pigini is one of the best brands! I think Hohner Gola is most expensive model, but they are all unique.

@musamor75

Жыл бұрын

Hello James, Nice to hear someone talk about the Hohner Gola. Yes, they are unique- and that's putting it mildly.

@flooo5071

8 ай бұрын

@@musamor75 I think pigini nova would be more expensive than hohner gola for the same configuration ?

@PatSmith-wi1kz

2 ай бұрын

Hohner is a dumb overrated accordion

Even the manual guide may determine sounds quality output

Good

Rolls Royce of musical Instruments..

Wait until you hear about Stradivari violins

@alessandrorossi1294

Жыл бұрын

Stradivari violas are even more expensive than Stradivari violins

obviously alot of things are used just to make it expensive. mother of pearl buttons is over the top and doesn't affect it

@XMarkxyz

Жыл бұрын

I'll be honest: it looks like that but the feeling is different, my piano (just because it's quite old) still has ivory keys and they feel quite different from the acrylic/plastic you find on the run of the mill modern instrument

@christopherthomson1978

Жыл бұрын

@@XMarkxyz yes they do but don't affect the sound

@vysharra

Жыл бұрын

@@christopherthomson1978 the experience of the artist can absolutely inform a performance

@athmaid

Жыл бұрын

@Not Expat Joe surely there must be materials out there that mimic ivory close enough both look AND feel-wise

😂 “free bass” accordion 😂

noooo the buzzfeed unsolved royalty free track

A "standard accordion" cannot make do with a few hundred parts. Rather specific small diatonic accordions (like those used for Cajun) have a fighting chance to get away with so few parts. But a "standard accordion" nowadays (rather than 150 years ago) will run into thousands of parts easily.

How do I win one of these?

"Slip like Freudian Your first and last step to playin' yourself like accordion" Daniel Dumile

Hohner Morino 7 with free bass 11 voice is also expensive.

It's an art

Me with my Settimio Soprani Ampliphonic Coletta 🧍‍♂️

@mexican.peso.

Жыл бұрын

Me with a Hohner panther

Make one for gas. "Why gas is so expensive "

Big Fan From Pakistan

I am not understanding why the blend of wood is secret. (reference 2:37 in the video). Wouldn't mass spectrometry describe the wood in detail?

@fearsomefawkes6724

Жыл бұрын

Who's going to spend the money to do that?

What a strange and wonderful instrument!

2:54 OSHA intensifies. Can he use a pusher?

@CalimehChelonia

Жыл бұрын

He can and he should! 😨

@paulblichmann2791

Жыл бұрын

For rookies only.

@DarkGT

Жыл бұрын

@@paulblichmann2791 How many fingers are you missing Mr. Expert?

Great video - but the narration sounds quite muffled compared to what you usually produce. Other voices are ok.

RAmón Ayala. El mejor

Imagine dropping this.

Good to see something out of Japan

@deximilijanmalic4124

Жыл бұрын

Robot is from Japanese factory Denso...I work earlyer for this company. 🤔😉

@alessandrorossi1294

Жыл бұрын

@@deximilijanmalic4124 Domo origato, Mr. Roboto!

Ou trouver pièces d'accordéon

So many keys yet i never seem to hiyt a single one that makes me sound good

@collinthegamer510

Жыл бұрын

💀

The labour that goes into making an accordion costs more than anything else. I know ….I repair them.

Free bass accordian...let me get my candle and spoon...

Well to make easy the accordion is praticali a portable Piano . If are a good accordion player, take it with your hands & go play anywhere. I’m an accordion player I put it on my car & that’s it you don need a truck ciao 👋

I mean just look at it, it looks expensive!

Where’s El Panter Belico?

wow new upload

5:10 로렌조..? 먼디 갑자깈ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 보다 놀랬넼ㅋㅋㅋ

"the mother of pearl buttons cost €600: 4x as much as regular buttons, which is why these accordions can sell for nearly €40,000" So I'd they used regular buttons: these would sell for €39550?

@AndreKartsi

3 ай бұрын

If you buy Pigini Nova (the highest model of the brand), the mother of pearl is already included. Lower models, even my Sirius Millenium, is already with "fake" pearl buttons but if I want same buttons as Nova has, I'll pay these 600€ on the top of the regular price. For example one multi chin register (the small button on the top of the instrument which you push by your chin during playing) can cost up to 1000€ and I have three of them besides regular chin registers. Also accessories can be "expensive" but the quality is the most important and if someone play many concerts or practise hours and hours... the instrument has to work perfectly.

@nuberiffic

3 ай бұрын

@@AndreKartsi ok, thanks antiques roadshow.

2:50 😳

Just wait til people find out about the price on a gabanelli accordion 😅😅

2:50 that is the most unsafe way of using a table saw.

@mitchjones2821

Жыл бұрын

Leave.

@paulblichmann2791

Жыл бұрын

When you're that good, you can do it.

@mitchjones2821

Жыл бұрын

@@paulblichmann2791 only on YoudiditwrongTube

These are a bargain compared to the cost of a car

Échese un corridazo belico compare

for those who do not know, its playing two entirely different instruments at once..

Does anyone know who the girl from 1:19 is? She is stunningly beautiful

1:02 Ummmm.... The accordion is upside down. 😅

I always thought it was the weirdest instrument

@pliat

Жыл бұрын

Nah man, they are sick. Go ahead and name another handheld instrument that can play multiple melodies at once

2:50 DO YOU WANT YOUR FINGERS?

All these so expensive series....can be boiled down to hand made 99% of the time.

The sound of this video is so faint that on full volume couldn't hear it on speaker.

Training our minds is a self-motivated endeavour, we cannot count on others to do this for us. To succeed, we have to be strong and determined.

The price is up to 40k

Does weird Al play a Pigini?

@Izakokomarixyz

Жыл бұрын

Nope in the accordion world he’s just average

Does Weird Al use this brand?

20 units only in a year?

@gabriellaguna2551

Жыл бұрын

From that specific model, yes

@5Penkets

Жыл бұрын

That’s just the nova’s. Their price is 33000€ They make cheaper ones for 26k,16k,10k and then smaller bass acc’s for cheaper.

👍👍👍👍🙏🙏

Those of you who think that this is complicated should learn about the mechanics of a pipe organ.

@68sgstandard

13 күн бұрын

Accordions like the Pigini are equally as complicated as a pipe organ, but at a much smaller scale.

The word PRICIEST obviously subsumes the word EXPENSIVE, by definition. Priciest can't be the most economical, right? What we have here is a Simpleton click-bait title... 😥

A concert grand piano does have a wider pitch range than Pigini and Jupiter's biggest bayans . . . but not by nearly as much as you'd think. Especially considering that a piano isn't portable. A piano is furniture. A Pigini free bass chromatic button accordion can come with you anywhere.

@AndreKartsi

3 ай бұрын

Yes... range is in the case of Pigini Nova or Sirius Millenium (button version) always around 5 octaves of each side. It means with the 8 foot register it's E-g4 in right hand, E1-c#3 in left hand. With registers we can extend, move range which can become in the end E1-c#5 in both hands. Some instruments can also go in left hand down to C1. Without a few tones it's range of the piano in both hands with possibility also combine octaves same as organ or harmonium. :) I have 2nd highest accordion from Pigini. I love it. 😊

I swear by Bugari accordions

@rkberta

5 ай бұрын

I have one but personally I much prefer my Vignoni Fisart concert converter free bass.... but Bugari makes very good accordions also....and frankly at same quality levels as Pigini. That one expensive Pigini only has made a few examples due to the difficulty of obtaining the reeds used. I have played several Piginis and frankly they are no better or worse than the same level version of other brands. People don't know unless you are an accordionist that every manufacturer has a range of models/costs.

why do you make cheap electronic music instruments?

😀

What is Ludovica talking about... Bugari has a better sound and overall is a better company for accordion currently.

"Welcome to heaven. Here's your harp."..."Welcome to hell. Here's your accordion" - Gary Larson

reminded me of SpongeBob 😂

whats the cheapest one?

@ludensarahan

Жыл бұрын

Chinese ones are quite cheap but I don't recommend them.

@pliat

Жыл бұрын

I started on a soviet bayan i got from Ukraine, i bought it for ~£200 + £100 for shipping. A great instrument. However it may be limiting after a time. I recommend having a look online perhaps on 2nd hand sites. But i really cant stress thing enough, test the accordion before you buy it, and if you cant, at least get a video.

@alessandrorossi1294

Жыл бұрын

When you buy very cheap, you almost always need to bring it to music repair before it is playable. So whether you buy it super cheap and bring it for repair, or you just pay more for a slightly better one, as far as I can tell the cheapest working ones that are piano accordion are about 1000 USD and the cheapest working ones that are chromatic button accordion are about 1300 USD. Diatonic accordions (not featured in the video) tend to be cheaper that both, you can get a working one for about 600-800 USD, they are really limiting compared to Piano Accordion and Chromatic Button Accordion though (that's why they're cheap)

@pliat

Жыл бұрын

@@alessandrorossi1294 i bought a 100 bass bayan for £300 (inc shipping) as a starter accordion. It is very good, but rather limiting after a while. It may not be tuned entirely correctly (some notes have tremolo while others are dry ect) but it is quite playable, and a good introduction to chromatic button accordions.

@pliat

Жыл бұрын

@@alessandrorossi1294 i bought a 100 bass bayan for £300 (inc shipping) as a starter accordion. It is very good, but rather limiting after a while. It may not be tuned entirely correctly (some notes have tremolo while others are dry ect) but it is quite playable, and a good introduction to chromatic button accordions.