Can anyone help me?

Squeezebox & Harmonica
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Hi y’all.

Hopefully someone here will be able to give me some idea of what I actually have in my hot little hands. I have the accordion that my parents purchased for me when I was taking lessons as a child. The accordion was carefully stored in its case for about oh 33 yrs and now I’ve decided to let someone else have a go at it.

Problem is, I’m having a VERY difficult time finding out anything about it. Hopefully someone here can help me and tell me is this thing is extremely rare and valuable (hope hope hope) or so not worth anyones while.

It is a small , comparatively light (17 to 20 lbs) and comes with a hard case. It is a Serenelli with 120 bass and 41 keys on a 15" keyboard. There are three buttons on top of the keyboard that read - Bassoon, Master, Clarinet. The accordion itself is pearloid red and white. The bellows show no cracks or splits and there is good resistance with no air leakage that I can tell. There is an emblem attached to the keyboard side that seems to a coat of arms.

I’ve had this since 1973 - the last time I took lessons- and I know next to nothing about it, my parents purchased it from my teacher at the time and they know diddly. So my question to you all is - is this a toy or a treasure? I can’t find ANYTHING that looks even remotely like it and even the company that made it seems to have gone belly up ( or has been merged with another company and I just can’t find them).

Please help. Thank you all

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Hi David

No piano box experts here, it would seem. What I’ve heard about Serenelli button boxes suggested that they were not in the top flight of makers, but this may not apply to their piano models.

(Not to be confused with Serenellini, who are a more recent operation and whose boxes are of very good quality.)

Where are you in Canada? Find your nearest accordion dealer and take it to them for an appraisal, or phone them if you are too far away.

A couple of places you could phone are John’s Accordion Service in Windsor or Accordéons Excellence in Montreal - you’ll find links to both shops on my box links page at http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/irishboxlinks.html#dealers.

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Thank you so much for replying Steve.

I’m in Ontario just outside of Toronto, I’ve contacted a company in Toronto but they haven’t responded to me yet. Hopefully, I’ll find out something soon.

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This statement makes me wonder why I don’t live in Canada.

…or why don’t I play Spanish guitar…