Today was my last proper day in the workshop. The first thing I did was regulate a reed valve on an accordion where a note wasn't working properly. After that I took the left hand side off my accordion and prepared it for polishing, which Stefano will do in the next few days. My next move was to check the dodgy note from earlier and I discovered it wasn't alone! I replaced or adjusted most the reeds in the right hand of the accordion and that seemed to do the trick!
Remember the little accordion I've been working on a lot? Well, I was back to that next. Some of the metal trim on the right hand grill had come off so I glued it back on.
We went for lunch at 1, before I went to town for ice cram and pop into the supermarket.
I went back to work at 15:20, where Claudio asked me to count out 190 tiny blue gems (for accordion decoration) to be sent to his representative in Norway. After that I replaced the grill cloth on the small accordion, before putting it all back together. It's finished and I've done it all! Claudio just needs to tune it a little.
The rest of the afternoon was spent working on the only remaining Dallapè Liturgical accordion in the world. I had to take before & after photos of every move I made as its restoration is being controlled by a civic authority. We took the grill off, and another grill that was behind, and started unhooking all the register switches - a fiendishly tricky job on such a monstrous accordion. Sadly, I'm not blessed with patience, because it was definitely needed. Using a little metal hook I had to unhook tiny hooks from rods.
We went home at 19:30, via the petrol station, and I had my dinner. After that I spoke to Stephanie on Skype, before making sandwiches for tomorrow's lunch.
Off to bed now because I have to be up early to travel to Genova to meet Stephanie off the plane... 62 days later!
Ciao x
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