AA ALFRED ARNOLD TANGO BANDONEON BANDONION ZINC PLATES 1929 GERMANY TUNED

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AA ALFRED ARNOLD TANGO BANDONEON BANDONION ZINC PLATES 1929 GERMANY TUNED:
$5200.00

AA ALFRED ARNOLD TANGO BANDONEON BANDONION ZINC PLATES GERMANY 1929

GREAT SOUND.LISTEN TO THE TWO SOUND TESTS

THE BANDONEON WITH THE GREAT SOUND

TAKE A MOMENT TO REPRODUCE THE TWO VIDEOS WITH SOUND PROOF HERE;

***PLAY VIDEO HERE SOUND TEST 1 VIDEO HERE SOUND TEST 2 OF WOOD WITH ORIGINAL VARNISHBROWN IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, Normal wear for age

***IT HAS 33 KEYS FOR SHRILL SOUND AND 38 KEYS FOR LOWSOUND.

142 TONES.

*** RECENTLY TUNEDBY A RECOGNIZED INTERNATIONAL TUNER

*** ZINC REEDPLATES.

*** GREATCONDITION, Normal wear for age

***BELLOWS NEW,ZERO AIR LOST

*** IT HAS HAD AN ONLY OWNER SINCE 1929

*** I CAN PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PHOTOS IF YOU ASK TO

*** PROFESSIONALLY PACKED , I WILL INCLUDE CERTIFICATE INTERNATIONAL OF DISINFECTION REQUIRED FOR THE CUSTOMS BY THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY

*** HANDLING & SHIPPING 5 WORKING DAYS. EXPEDITED SHIPPING VIA UPS (United Parcel Service of America)

*** ORIGINAL HARD CASE

ALFRED ARNOLD (AA)

By the end of the 19th Century, there were accordions, concertinas and bandonions, exported from Germany to the whole world.The principal factory that manufactured bandonions, owned by C.F. Zimmerman, was bought in the 1860's by Earnest Louis Arnold. Zimmerman moved to North America.German sailors and Italian seasonal workers and emigrants brought the Bandoneon with them to Argentina and Uruguay in the 1870s. Soon the instrument was adopted by those wishing to incorporate it into the milonga music at that time and it quickly became the symbol of Tango.Earnest Louis Arnold (ELA) (1828-1910) was the manufacturer of the "ELA" bandoneons, which were exported to Argentina and sold by Alberto Ohermann. Max Epperlein also was well known in Argentina for introducing the "ELA" during the first years of the century. Max Epperlein was a Leipzig exporter who, from doing modest business with Argentina, came to fall in love with Buenos Aires and settled there for many years. Thus arrived at the River Plata an instrument which, in its country of origin, Germany, had been known mostly by the upper classes. The instrument was expensive. The German Federation of the Concertina and Bandonion played a fundamental role in the standardization of the manufacture of the instrument. There were different manufactures of the Bandonion offering models with widely varying numbers of voices. Because of the recommendations of the Federation, the number of voices was fixed at 144, thus determining the style common in Germany. However the model with 142 voices, adopted by the tango prior to standardization, continued to be produced by Earnest Louis Arnold, but only for export to Argentina, Uruguay and other Latin American Countries.Thereafter, the direction of the firm was run by the children until theyoungest, Alfred (1878-1933), who with all experience he achieved since the early years, in 1911 founded the firm Alfred Arnold Bandoneon, which manufactured the famous and highly praised "AA" (Double A). In later advertisements it was announced as follows "The only instrument for a perfect interpretation of Argentina Tango". The "AA" of 142 voices has 71 buttons of "mother of pearl" and it was adopted by professional tango musicians. The AA enjoyed great prestige because of its high-quality reeds, its sound mechanics and its strong constitution.Since that time most of the bandoneons (ELA) and the ones made by Alfred Arnold (AA) were exported to Argentina with the name BANDONEON Arnold also manufactured the "Premier" instruments, of an excellent quality, which were imported by Sharp and Veltren. Another reknowned trademark was "Germania", constructed by "M Hohner A:G (Mathis Hohner). These instruments were quite solid and of an excellent finish. The same company released the brands "Tango", "Cardenal" and also "Concertista" all of them imported by Ohermann. The bandoneon had already been in use in the River Plata (Uruguay and Buenos Aires areas) for several years before it actually began to be marketed. It is not known who first brought it. The first bandonions may have arrived in the baggage of German or Irish or Spanish immigrants during the years of the establishment of Argentina boom in the 1890s or early 1900s and from there passed on from hand to hand into the musical dance halls of the barrios. The Bandoneon was never built in Argentina, with most of the bandoneons, the famous Double A "AA" being built by Alfred Arnold (AA) from 1911 until 1949. The brothers, Alfred Arnold (AA) and Paul Arnold, were succeeded by their respective sons. One of them, Horst Alfred, wrote to a client, Oscar Zucchi, "Maybe you know that the enterprise is no longer existent, my factory was expropriated and is, since 1949 "people's factory". The company, located in East Germany, was nationalized. Now they manufacture pumps for diesel engines. Paul Arnold's son, Alfred's nephew, managed to flee East Germany and, in the western zone of the then divided country, established his own factory in the city of Obertshausen. Alfred's former technician, Mr. Muller, was his assistant. The firm closed soon after he died in 1971. There have been no new factories for the production of bandoneons. ....