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Pinhole Aeola


Mike Pierceall

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The problem ist that they usually have only 4-fold bellows...

 

I had 7-folders fitted to mine. Now it is a lovely quiet and useful instrument! One of my favourites!

 

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That nearly doubles the air capacity. Does yours have rivetted reeds?

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The problem ist that they usually have only 4-fold bellows...

 

I had 7-folders fitted to mine. Now it is a lovely quiet and useful instrument! One of my favourites!

 

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Mine has a 5-fold bellows... multiply patched, but definitely original.

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I bought one just like this in the mid 1970's in a secondhand musical instrument shop in London, I paid £4 if my recollection is correct. Very fine instrument but it would not 'pull the skin off a rice pudding' in the volume stakes. I sold it on before I was tempted to open up the fretwork... tut tut ... such thoughts!

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There are times, when my head only allows me to play that ultra quiet pinhole! The action - by the way - is as good as any later Aeola.

 

I once exchanged only one end of a model 22 with one end of the pinhole! The difference between the two ends was extreme!!!

 

Which prooves that the ends make all the difference...

 

The reeds are double-bolted...

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