This “Art van Damme” accordion Excelsior 304 belonged to the renowned Vienna musician Helmut Schicketanz who played in the trio “Wiener Spitzbuam”.
The bellows are black, the grille, too, is lacquered in black. The left hand has 96 bass buttons set in mother of pearl and two bass switches. The right hand has 37 treble keys made of beautiful mother of pearl, as well as seven treble switches (five voices). 304 with mother of pearl keys and an “Art van Damme” jazz tuning. This accordion by the American company Excelsior is model no. Overall dimensions: 45 x 39 x 21.5 cm (height x width x depth) And, like I've already said, "Delfini" was one of three pseudo-Italian names that Dallas came up with in the 1930s for "house brands" (the others being "Casali" and "Alvari"), quite likely by simply changing the last letter of Scandalli's (by then obsolete) Delfino model to an i.Original instrument previously owned by the renowned Vienna musician Helmut Schicketanz from the “Wiener Spitzbuam” Dallas in London, who were major accordion importers and the Scandalli agents in the 1930s (and still were up until at least as late as 1964, because I have a catalogue dated that year). The common denominator between Delfini and Scandalli is J. (For that matter, Scandalli has changed ownership several times since WW2, and is now part of Suoni - as is Paolo Soprani.)Įven Hohner, who had a museum and a curator (who I met and corresponded with) couldn't answer what were to me very basic questions, whilst the way they're describing their own models these days makes it abundently clear that the present generation don't have a clue what is actually inferred by various long-established terms - like a one-row 4-stopper 114 cannot possibly be a "Wiener model" (though a 2915 "Pokerwork" most certainly is) and should be/always used to be termed a Deutsche/German model. From my experiences of dealing with numerous accordion-making/dealing firms over the years I've found that there's never anybody who knows, or even cares, what the last generation were doing, let alone what went on in the firm's production 70 years (and more) ago, but they'll reply politely to enquiries from people, with guesses, even if they don't have a clue what they're waffling on about. I saw that, but wouldn't pay any heed to it.
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