Thanks for your reply and sorry I didn’t keep checking the post here. Anyway, I bought a bandoneon in Jun/2009. It costs only USD $ 1800. The response of mine is not good but at least all button in both direction make sound.

It is just a greeting to you who is the only Hong Kong citizen playing bandoneon, though you are now in Bs As. How is your progress? I managed to memorize the button location of all notes in both open and close bellow. And now start to sight-reading the piano sheet to play music. But there is still a long way to run.

Another good news is that Mr. Juan Jose Mosalini was in Hong Kong for the performance “Cafe de los Maestros”. I was lucky that he is willing to check my bandoneon and teach me how to fix it when the toolkit is available. So the response of my bandoneon is improved a bit.

Are you having bandoneon lesson regularly in Bs As now?

Would you mind sharing with me how the teacher teach you?

Thank you for your sharing.

Kit

According to the CTA website, it seems the latest CD of OTV is Vol. 16. So maybe Vol. 17 is not out yet, and not sure if Mr. Baba has any intention to continue the OTV series.

Royce

Taking bandoneon class is rather easy and convenient. You don’t need to have a bandoneon, the bandoneon teacher usually has one for his student for taking classes.

But buying bandoneon in BA now is complicated. A law just passed last year in November to forbidden bandoneon older than 50? (forgot the exact year) years old to leave Argentina. I have no clue how the law has been carrying out, and none of the people I know had ever tried to bring a bandoneon out of the country since the law is passed. So maybe you can still buy a bandoneon, but bring it back to Singapore might not be possible.

I never recommend people to buy instrument online without trying the instrument themselves. But unfortunately, that might be the only option for you, if buying a bandoneon in Argentina is not possible (unless you opt for a brand new one). In Germany there’re many bandoneons for sale on ebay, but most of them do not have the same fingering system as the Argentinian ones. If you really want to get it through ebay, check carefully.

If you will go to Bs.As. later this year. I suggest you to take few bandoneon classes and see if you like it first. Then talk to your bandoneon teacher and he should be able to advice you on how to get the instrument.

Royce