[Jacob Fournel]

The problem with Small keyboards is the size of the white keys at the black keys level : if You have large fingers, You can’t “enter” in the keyboard, it’s too tight.
The fact to reduce the width of the black keys allows to enlarge the white keys, that’s what we did.

[Jacob Fournel]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B_KE54dTJKU

here’s a vidéo, chords at 1’40 and double tonguing at 2’50.

[Jacob Fournel]

Dear Quetscher,
Do You mean smaller in length or in width ? The “black” keys are smaller in width but the white keys have the same dimensions. We choose this new ratio between white and black keys to have both a quite Small instrument and a 45 notes keyboard.
Were’s no problem about double tonguing and chord playing, the Seraphone works like a mélodica and the’s no loose of air.

[Jacob Fournel]

Yes, there’s a direct access to the reeds, it was one of my main wishes : tune and adjust the reeds easily. So it takes 5 seconds !

[Jacob Fournel]

I can’t answer at the moment, I’ld say 1 year…
Packaging is another question we didn’t answer yet.

[Jacob Fournel]

The model will cost around 3000 euros, but we need 5 bookings to begin the production.
Quetscher, the Seraphone is very powerful and stable, so you have no chance to bend any note in a regular way, BUT if you half press the keys, it works very well.
As I sayed, this is a prototype and put a flexible tube cause I prefer, but we can easily put another mouthpiece.

[Jacob Fournel]

Hi Quetscher,
This is a brand new model I made in may 2014 with Marc Sérafini, a french accordion maker, and it’s the first model (prototype !!!).
Its particular, sweet as powerful tone comes from the wood used (walnut) and the quite big resonance box, and from the high quality of the reeds.
The big difference between a Seraphone and a melodica is that you can blow AND inhale in it ! The Eolina from Balone Burini inspired me (I played on a customised Eolina before). But there’s is problem with the Eolina : you inhale the air you blow. So I decided to work on this problem and the Seraphone allows to inhale fresh air.
The black box you see in the video is in aluminium and it canalizes water before entering in the instrument, so there’s very few humidity inside the instrument.
The only shortcoming of the instrument is its weight : 4,2 kg, but as you see, I’m not a lumberman and can hold it easily, and you can put a necklace if needed.
The black box you see in the video is an aluminium one and it canalize water before entering in the instrument, so there’s very few humidity inside the instrument.
The only shortcoming of the instrument is its weigh : 4,2 kg, but as you see, I’m not a lumberman and can sustain it easily, and you can put a necklace like for saxophone.
Hope I answered to your questions !

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