When they sit for decades unplayed - even in a case in a climate-controlled environment - the moving parts inside can tend to deteriorate, especially the leather, felt, glue and wax. Like cars, accordions need to have regular servicing every few years to remain in good condition. With older accordions, playing condition is the most important factor. You can also take a look at our current used accordion listings for sale. The "sold" listings will probably give you the most realistic figures. We always suggest taking a look on eBay (at current and "sold" listings) to see what a similar instrument is going for - and you will likely encounter a very wide price range. This could vary widely depending on where - and by what method - the accordion is being sold (by an individual on Craigslist or eBay, at a pawn shop or antique store, by a reputable accordion shop, and also by geographic region the same instrument might fetch a higher price in New York City than it would in rural Arkansas). So - how much is your accordion worth? The short answer is, it's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. We do not accept accordions for sale or consignment that would need to be shipped to us. We are especially interested in piano accordions of 48-72 bass sizes that are in good condition. If you are within driving distance of our shop in Takoma Park, MD, you may email us photos and any information you know about an accordion you're interested in selling, and we will let you know if we're interested in having you bring in in for sale/trade/consignment consideration. Below, we offer some information to assist those who may be looking to sell their accordion. Appraising an accordion's value is not a straightforward process, because they generally do not have "Blue Book values" like many other instruments (such as guitars) do. When it comes down to placing a value on an older accordion, the brand name often doesn't mean a whole lot anyway, except in a handful of cases. There are also quite a lot of these nameless instruments floating around out there, and there is no way to identify which company originally made them. Some accordions were even manufactured without brand names, so that a retail shop could add their own name later when they offered it for sale.
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Your accordion may even have a serial number, but in most cases there are no records for tracking these numbers. Though a handful of them are still in operation, most stopped manufacturing decades ago, and there is little historical information available about these companies. In the "Golden Age" of accordion manufacturing in Italy (the mid 1900s), there were literally hundreds of accordion companies and brand names making instruments. Perhaps you're thinking you have a rare and valuable accordion because you can't find out anything about it - unfortunately, that's probably not the case. You may have found our website after a fruitless internet search trying to find information on your accordion's brand name. There is also this Facebook group you can post in, and you may get some guidance from the accordion community. We receive so many inquiries, in fact, that it's not possible to answer each one individually - so we direct inquiries to this article, which we hope will be helpful to those searching for information. We receive inquiries nearly every day from people searching for information on an older accordion - usually either from a relative's estate, or that they bought from a yard sale, etc.
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