Russ, that would be Crumar.

More history..I was a Crumar dealer in 84..I carried the whole line.
My distributor stocked me with the new digital keyboard.."Bit one"[a Ketron product]..Solton had the MS4, TS4[rack] and MS50..Lou[Bell/Duo} was the distributor for Solton, but not the Ketron and Crumar lines..I am pretty sure that they were manufactured at the same facility..

The other Italian line back then was Siel..I actually sold more Siel products..They had some great products and some great ideas and stats on paper[adds], that turned out to be bombs..We use to tell our customers to save the box[made it easier to ship back to the distributor when they go south]..The big seller for us was the DK-600[Stevie Wonder used one for a while[I think his equipment manager told him it was a DX7]..

As you may guess, my Bread and butter line was Roland.Jupiters, 106's, JX8p,JX10,MKS series[the good old days]..

[This message has been edited by Fran Carango (edited 10-18-2005).]

When I was in my teens I was taking piano lessons from a teacher who mostly taught accordion. On Monday nights there was band practice... 40 accordions and one piano... me! I blame all my quirks and irregularities to the experience.

Glenn

What's an accordion?! I thought they were what they use to fan the fire's flames.

It's that squeeze box Mamma plays on her chest.

BEBOP,

I was just scanning the posts....I have one of those Enrico Rosselli 120 bass accordions in it's case. Has the Stancato School logo on the case. It actually plays excellently. My 13-yr old son thought it was one of those things like the Suzanne Sommers Thigh-Master......hmmmmmm. I told him that when he gets interested in girls, he'll be back wanting to borrow that accordion to woooooooo his lady. We'll see....

About 25 years ago, when I was about 10 years old, I asked my parents if they would send me to music school. "Yes, I want it, I would like to play the guitar" was the sales pitch.....

My mother said something like "it is accordion or nothing, this is a fine instrument, guitar and others are not good instruments" quoting her PERSONAL preference, which I had to take or leave.

Of course I denied, saying that "accordions are only for the blind" because every other time I had been on a public transport, a blind man (or someone pretending to be blind for added effect), armed with an accordion, would come and play, begging for coins. Most people obliged, so the torment of their ears would stop.

I changed my opinion on accordion after many years, actually liked very much the soundtrack of "Amelie" the French movie, but I still bear a grudge for that "accordion or nothing".

Still, sometimes, when I hear an accordion, I look up to see if the player is wearing black glasses.