WTF! Look what I got for Christmas!

hello keyboard guys. Came over from guitars to show yall what my wife got me for Christmas.

I know absolutely nothing about it, other than it weighs a ton, seems to work perfectly, and its vintage.

A friend of my wife inherited it, and better half purchased it for a song for my Christmas present.

Its an Electro Vox Electronic Accordion, complete w/original case and vol pedal.

It has 6 rows of buttons and 41 piano keys. Something that looks like a midi plug and a 1/4 plug labeled "mikes aux", a vol pedal and some cables. I hanvt tried to amplify it yet, but everything seems to work perfectly unamplified.

I have a pic but HC or my computer dosnt seem to want to let me open the attachment window to upload right now. Ill post as soon as Im able.

If anybody has any info on this thing, esp the electric bits, Id appreciate it.

Merry Christmas!

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So FK You.

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... what's the problem here?

Oh for FK's sake. This can't end well.

FK yeah

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Alright, thank you Peanut Gallery.

Pics or not, the man asked a serious question. Does anyone have anything USEFUL to add here, or are we just gonna let this thread slide into banality? I say we at least try to be helpful if we can.

Better behave, Santa's watching all of you, checking to see who's naughty or nice.

Pine Apple Slim, I tried doing a search on this thing and can't find anything.

I'd love to see a picture of this thing once you can upload it. I love anything vintage, there's something about the quality and the materials they used back in the day, plus there's always a story or stories that come with an instrument that has traveled down a musician's highway.

I love it when our wives or partners buy us something like this, especially for Christmas.

merry christmas

an accordian?! ...

Actually, accordions are fun to mess around with. I actually got a little wooden harmonium because I liked the accordion-type reed sound so much.

I couldn't find anything about the OP's accordion but I did happen upon this gem in the search:

http://www.manxman.ch/steinswingers/

Git tha FK outta here.

That's just awesome

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Sounds like an awesome present to me. Enjoy!!!

Hi there Slim.

I'm not familiar with your particular model, but I can give you a little bit of context.

As you may know, accordions were very popular in the late 50s and early 60s, and many attempts were made to amplify them. Because microphone technology wasn't good enough or small enough yet, the first attempts at an "electric" accordion were done mostly by Italian companies Farfisa and Cordovox. Farfisa was at first a loose union of a several traditional accordion companies: Soprani, Scandalli, and Settimio I think. Anyways, the first electric accordion was "reedless" meaning if it wasn't plugged in, you couldn't hear it. This was because all of its sound was generated by electronic oscillators that impersonated an accordion. What this REALLY was, was an organ.

That was the early 60s, and Farfisa and some other companies essentially turned their accordions into organs (the Transicord, and Transivox, and so on).

I *think* that at some point, hybrids were made that combined a traditional accordion with physical air powered reeds, with the electric components. I doubt that your squeezebox has an internal mic pickup, especially since it has all those buttons (footages, probably). If you manage to amp it up, it'll probably sound like a combo organ...a Vox, Farfisa, or some such.

That "midi" looking cable is probably the power cable. I can't tell from your pictures if it has a separate power supply or not, but most did. The volume pedal was used for "expression" like on an organ, or like pushing and pulling the bellows on a typical accordion.

Anyways, since there doesnt seem to be an "electrovox accorion" forum anywheres, the only other place I can think of to get info would be eBay. Really, eventually someone who knows a lot will sell theirs, and might be able to ask them about it or whatever.

Hope that helps some.

Upon examination of the "Crumor" pedal. it has 3 cords comming out of it.

The "midi-like" power cord-has a corresponding jack in the side of the accordion.

An AC power cord(seems the power supply is buit in the pedal).

And a cord w/a regular 1/4" plug, presumably to the amp.

Plus the accordion has another "output(I assume) beside the "midi-like out" that says "aux mic".

Why would there be an "auxillary" mic if htere wasnt built-in, or internal mics?

Seems this thing was state of the art 50 yrs ago.

I'm gonna clean up the contacts next and plug this sucker into my bass amp and see if all the organ functions will work. If it does.....who knows, maybe a Leslie is in my future.