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Squeezebox Advice Central: The Pretty Complete Guide to Squeezeboxes Currently out of print. An owner's manual & buyers guide to the identification, selection, purchase, care & maintenance of accordions & concertinas. Registers, sizes, tuning options, choosing the right instrument, prices and repairs, sources for further information. Many confusing terms clearly defined: diatonic, chromatic, musette, etc. Keyboard diagrams, how to evaluate an accordion, how to ship, how to adjust straps, how to tune up the band. Trivia section includes list of names, brands & models.

Originally published April 1997 (47 pp), revised July 1999 and expanded to 94 pages.

Links below are to some of the hypertext documents which served as the core of the original edition.

Guide to Squeezeboxes Table of Contents: Choosing An Accordion Musette: How wet is wet? Tuning Suggestions Treble Voices & Accordion Switches Sizes of Piano Accordions Button Accordions How to Pick a Concertina Repairs & Maintenance About Buying Old Accordions Used Squeezebox Appraisals Shipping An Accordion Care and Feeding All About Straps Some Internet Resources A Source for Accordion Books

The Trivia Pages How did the Accordion get its Name A List of Brand or Model Names A List of Celebrity Squeezers Some articles not in the original edition: Accordions and Back Pain Accordion Repair Tips Duet Concertinas Bandoneons and Chemnitzer Concertinas

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