Understand the Typical Pricing of Accordions

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So the last thing about an Accordion has to do with prices. A brand new instrument can cost certainly several hundred dollars. Sometimes several thousand dollars for a new instrument and your probably not going to be to interested in that till you really become a player and you decide you want a quality instrument. For a used instrument, depending on where you buy one from, if you get an Accordion from an Accordion dealer that has gone through it and has cleaned it and has gone through adjusted all the reeds and it has been tuned and somebody who knows what they are doing. Then you can spend a few hundred on a used Accordion as well, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, maybe even more on a used instrument, but if you?re buying an instrument from a pawn shop, garage sale or Craig's list or EBay, really there aren't many rules about that. A lot of people who are selling Accordions think that they should be worth a lot of money and the truth is if there in good condition they could be worth a lot on money, but for the most part a used Accordion almost always has a little bit of maintenance that it needs. It either needs to be cleaned or needs the valves replaced or needs to be tuned or something like that and all those things really kind of drag the price of a Accordion down. So, I mean I paid about sixty dollars for this one, which is probably about the most I probably should have paid for that. It was in pretty good shape actually, but it hadn't been tuned, it hadn't really been cleaned. I paid about a hundred ten, hundred twenty for this one, sort of as is and again I got kind of lucky. But again I didn't get them from people who are really Accordion dealers that really had gone through them and cleaned them up and kind of got them ready to go. This one I think I paid maybe fifty bucks for, something like that. So a small Accordion sometimes you can get lucky, get one for twenty bucks, certainly fifty, sixty, eighty bucks isn't too bad for a small medium size one. Maybe a hundred dollars for a larger one, but if you meet someone who is really trying to get a lot of money for a used instrument and they don't seem like an Accordion dealer, you might want to pass it by and keep looking.

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