Another Monday morning, another 8:20 alarm. Down at the shop today I was working on my accordion and having made a new hole for a screw, I had to fill in back in & remake it because I'd messed up and the hole was too big! I spent most of the morning faffing with that!
At lunch I had focaccia with fried onions & mushrooms.
After lunch I tested the microphones on my accordion and we discovered that the bass side doesn't work, but none of us could work out why. We're going to look into it tomorrow, I believe. Midway through the afternoon two photographers turned up and asked to photograph things in the workshop. They're doing a project on the area and want to focus on Stradella's main claim to fame - its accordions! I showed them the Dallapè Liturgical accordion and they took lots of photos of that. I then played my accordion for them and felt like a model - so many photos of me playing! Playing my accordion again after 3 months was very strange - it's so heavy & big and I've forgotten all my classical repertoire! After they'd gone I had to take a few reeds out of a diatonic accordion so they could be replaced with different notes. This seemed strange to me, but this tuning is what the Mexican market uses. While looking for the reeds to use, Claudio showed me a huge stash of reeds he has, including a complete a set of 'new', handmade reeds for a bandoneon. They were made in 1935ish by Fratelli Crosio and are still in long blocks rather than individual reeds. They were stunning specimens and preserved so well! Towards the end of the day I had great fun trying to teach Claudio the difference in pronunciation and meaning between - heal, heel, hail, hill, ill, eel and ale. Great fun! Hilarious!
Home time and a walk in the rain beckoned. A dinner of spaghetti with tuna has set me up for bed now.
Ci vediamo domani x
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