How to Care for Your Accordion Repairs are often expensive. I repair and can replace every part of all kinds of accordions including keyboard accordions, button accordions, restoring vintage accordions, repairing damage, new straps, bellows, cases, and accessories. Please write or E-mail with yore questians. I. Your accordion should be stored vertically, resting on the bass end.
Most accordions have the reed valves vertical when the accordion is vertical.
If the accordion is stored flat with the keyboard horizontal, half the reed valves will hang down upside down. Repairing this condition involves removing scores of reeds from the blocks and straightening the leathers. This includes a few types of button accordions and some tone-chamber accordions. In those unusual cases the accordion should be stored horizontally. Rarely accordions have the reeds attached with something other than wax, but the labor involved is usually about the same.