CastelFidardo Piano Accordion 120 Bass 39 Treble Professional Made in Italy

Description

This is a beautifully produced high quality CastelFidardo Vintage Professional 120 Bass 39 Treble Accordion.
Solid Black, with ivory style keys.
The accordion is ready to play, all keys, treble and bass switches work perfectly.
The straps have some wear on them but work fine.
The keybed measures 17 3/4". 16
There are no leaky bellows or smell.
Please view photos carefully, this item is sold as is.
This would be a great long-term use accordion, perfect for student or seasoned player, and could be used regularly.
Selling because I no longer use it, and would love to give it a new home.
This instrument plays wonderfully, and should be placed in a home of a seasoned player.  My father played accordion for years, and this will certainly bring warmth to anyone who enjoys this style of music.
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Castelfidardo, the global home of the accordion, is located half-way between the mountains and the sea, between the valleys of the Aspio and Musone rivers.
“Globally, Castelfidardo represents the pinnacle of the instrument's development, allowing top musicians to ”embrace“ well-crafted and reliable accordions”
The patent for the accordion was filed in Vienna in 1829 by Cyrill Demian, but it was fundamentally redesigned in Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Castelfidardo was the scene of a crucial moment in the unification of Italy, when the papal army was defeated by the Piedmontese troops, with the subsequent annexation of the territories of Marche and Umbria to the Kingdom of Italy. This area was the cradle in which the first “organetti” or “fisarmoniche” were developed.
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CASTELFIDARDO, Italy — Jet-lagged but determined, Salomon Salcedo thought nothing of trekking to this small hilltop town in the Marches region on a muggy June afternoon to satisfy a lifelong desire: buy a made-in-Castelfidardo accordion.
“They’re the best,” said Mr. Salcedo, 50, a policy officer in Chile for the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, who began playing the accordion when he was a child.
“You won’t find them in stores; they have to be made to order,” said Mr. Salcedo, who was combining the visit with a work trip to Rome. “And this is the place to come.”
For some people, the idea of traveling almost 7,500 miles for one purchase may seem extreme.
For accordion makers in Castelfidardo, it is a common occurrence. Ask around and prepare to be regaled with stories of delegations of Frenchmen, Argentines and other aficionados traveling to this town just south of the Adriatic port of Ancona to buy a bit of Italian industrial excellence.