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Greetings from Australia. Thank you to the Administrator for accepting my registration. I hope my probably limited posting will be of value to all that read them. I am 66yo and very technically skilled [both hands on and in theory]. I own and maintain and repair a wide variety of antique scientific-engineering equipment/instruments and vintage computers {circa 1960's to 1989}. However I have never owned nor played a musical instruments, other than a 78 hand crank gramophone. My lady friend says I cannot even sing or hum in tune whist in the shower, or anywhere else for that matter. So now I have decided to work on repairing this beautiful early French Accordion I have. Then I am going to try and learn to play it IN TUNE , and hopefully post a few youtube videos. and I felt I would add some pics of accessing the internals. Thank you so much to Stephen Chamber's for his post back on 27th March 2004, on this very site on giving the clue of how to access the insides. and yes you DO slide the key plate FULLY out before lifting the reed plate out. My photo of it mostly out, was taken to give a general idea of the instruments 3d structure It has number 150 inside. My accordion has a tiny hole in the end folds of 2 bellows, a few keys are missing felts, a couple are 'sticky', and there appears to be missing leather flaps on back of a number of reeds on the reed plate. Otherwise it appears in quite nice condition. I have made a photo album on imgur and added the link here, https://imgur.com/a/ckQay my full photo album on my instrument I will retake some of the photos with a better camera and on a more neutral background regards David