Reply To: Antique German Melodica?
Instruments of this type were already being built in series at the end of the 19th century and advertised as easy to learn. They are diatonic instruments, hence the unusual pattern when drawing and blowing.
The two individual buttons should be the tonica and dominant of each key.
I would date your instrument to the 50s of the last century. At that time, such devices were still made as children’s toys.
Is it made out of cardboard?
Katalog von 1912
Serious guy with blow accordeon
