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Made by Excelsior Melodeons
Superb Italian melodeons made by the famous Pigini company.

More about this Item:
Excelsior has been making accordions and melodeons in Italy for a very long time but quite recently Pigini, one of the most highly rated Italian accordion makers, bought the Excelsior company, and has produced a superb new range of professional quality melodeons.
The Chiltern is the new "box" for Morris. The amount of volume that you can produce is simply amazing making it a perfect Morris box, but you can play the Chiltern quietly for sessions etc.

Excelsior Chiltern Specifications:

High Standard Cherrywood melodeon

21 treble buttons, 8 bass buttons, 3 voices

One treble stop to take out the lower octave voice

One bass stop to take out the thirds

Super Durall Italian factory reeds

Stepped keyboard

Special order options: Different tuning, Higher quality reeds, Inlay

Choosing your Melodeon
Firstly you need to know what style of music you will mainly want to play - the most popular styles are given below, and each calls for a different tuning. Apart from the style you prefer, you should consider what key your friends use, so you can join in and learn from them, and the pitch of your voice. We would always recommend you to start on a two row.

D/G is suited to English folk Music.

B/C is for Irish music (players use both rows in order to play mainly in D or G, but the instrument is almost chromatic).

In France, and most parts of North and South America G/C is preferred

In Germany C/F is the standard