Information about a Hohner Tango I M
David Haardt
I would like to find out more about a well kept Hohner Tango I M
accordeon which my grandmother used to play in her youth. Because of
this information, I suppose it must have been manufactured before
1955. The serial number is 2956XX. Do you know when this model was
manufactured, and whether the serial number could tell more about the
year it was made?
I would be very grateful for any information you may have.
Best wishes,
David
David Kastrup
It is considered quite impolite to post the same request on different
groups at once since it means double the amount of work to be done for
you. I already pointed you on de.rec.musik.macher to the download site
of Hohner where they offer a complete model list including dates of
manufacture.
The accordion has survived more than 50 years without you knowing its
age, it would have easily survived another three days if you had gotten
no answer from de.rec.musik.macher.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
David Haardt
answer, that's why I cross-posted. The question seems to be answered
now (made in 1952).
David
ike milligan
"David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote in message
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It would have been very nice of you if you had also posted a link to that
Hohner site here, since the OP is not the only person reading this.
David Kastrup
> "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote in message
> news:851w77h...@lola.goethe.zz...
>> David Haardt <haar...@gmx.at> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to find out more about a well kept Hohner Tango I M
>>> accordeon which my grandmother used to play in her youth. Because of
>>> this information, I suppose it must have been manufactured before
>>> 1955. The serial number is 2956XX. Do you know when this model was
>>> manufactured, and whether the serial number could tell more about the
>>> year it was made?
>>>
>>> I would be very grateful for any information you may have.
>>
>> It is considered quite impolite to post the same request on different
>> groups at once since it means double the amount of work to be done for
>> you. I already pointed you on de.rec.musik.macher to the download site
>> of Hohner where they offer a complete model list including dates of
>> manufacture.
>>
>> The accordion has survived more than 50 years without you knowing its
>> age, it would have easily survived another three days if you had gotten
>> no answer from de.rec.musik.macher.
>
> It would have been very nice of you if you had also posted a link to that
> Hohner site here, since the OP is not the only person reading this.
I find it hard to believe that people are incapable to figure out to
visit <URL:http://hohner.de>, click on "Download" and select "Model
list" from there.
How could that be any more obvious?
ike milligan
geniuses.
Walter Hoehn
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DoN. Nichols
> Thank you for the hint. I did not expect to receive such a rapid
> answer, that's why I cross-posted.
Actually, looking at the headers of the original, no you did
*not* cross-post. You *multi*-posted. (A separate posting to each
newsgroup.)
If it had been cross-posted, anyone using a good newsreader to
read it in the first newsgroup would never have seen it in the second --
in whichever order s/he visited the newsgroups, thus reducing the number
of people who have to read it twice. (A poor newsreader does not
automatically mark cross-posted copies as already read, but the good
ones do.)
Enjoy,
DoN.
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Len Killick
Actually you need to read that Hohner table carefully - it shows the
years when the instrument appeared in a Hohner catalogue, the dates it
was made/was available can be different. Also the table contains a lot
of Typos, and this line is likely to be one of them as it says
1952-52 : normally where the entry is for only one year just the
single date is entered : 1952 ; where there is a dash it is usually
another year following. So, I think this entry should read 1952-53 or
-54 or ... -59.
You should then take it that this one was made "around 1952". It's not
that important, but you should just be aware that this table is not a
definative document, and has errors!
Walter Hoehn
I was given a Carmen II 80-bass recently that must be from
the 30's. But I can't find any info.
It's the old style with keyboard wings and painted flowers on the front.
Len Killick
The Carmen models I have seen (in photos only) look like Verdi models
from those days. These are from around the time that Hohner was
strategically moving some of its production to Switzerland for certain
(i.e. non-German-friendly) markets and there were a number of familiar
instruments made there with other names... just a possibility !