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Welcome to the family workshop. Here the Castagnari have produced accordions since 1914. A passion for music that has been handed down for three generations, a craft that keeps untouched the same ingredients of an old tradition: quality and harmony, in order to satisfy musicians from all over the world. People often call an accordion a “squeeze box” or “box of the soul”... We believe that inside the Castagnari accordions there is a piece
woods, but we also pay attention to the into account the ancient methods natural acoustics of the wood. one block we obtain a single work by hand using the almost a century. philosophy is to world of figures instrument into the characterised our and has enabled us to ensure accordions. This choice of quality greats as well as today’s young talents that play Castagnari melodeons. Follow us and discover our story. “Towards the end of the 1970s we resumed the construction of diatonic accordions that in previous years had almost totally disappeared, supplanted by chromatic accordions. Starting again from the evolutionary point at which the diatonic accordion had stopped, we have restarted
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