Concerto is the perfect marriage of an artisan accordion made by old world craftsmen in the heart of accordion country – Castelfidardo, Italy married together with the very finest digital electronics designed and manufactured in the USA.
Let us make one for you! – Buying your TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Concerto is a special experience in life. Your ACOUSTIC • 41 key 120 bass Concerto is not like most other articles you • 19” professional walnut keyboard • 4/5 sets of handmade reeds (custom hand made and tone chamber available) purchase. Clothing, cars, televisions, • Treble switches - 11 plus master palm switch • Bass switches - 7 furniture; most are mass produced. In many • Classical (with piccolo) or Musette tuning • Lifetime Plexi-glass keys and buttons cases no human hands touch these products • Rhinestone artwork available • Black professional finish - other colors available by special order during their entire creation. ELECTRONICS • General MIDI and GS compatible • Transmits on 8 simultaneous MIDI Channels Your new Concerto is assembled entirely by • Over 350 CD quality sampled sounds on board • TRUE Touch Sensitive Keyboard (on/off) the hands of loving craftsmen who know • Real-time bellow expression (on/off) • Real-time expression pedal with 2 effect switches their trade. Each Concerto is an individual • 3 effect footswitch - Phantom, A-Sustain, B-Sostenuto, and C-Damper - A,B,C are totally programmable for each user register finely tuned and honed to be a perfect piece • 128 Global User Registers (16 songs X 8 register each) • Archival Memory – expandable to 14 archive positions (64 registers per archive) of art. You choose the type of tuning, the • Register sequence advance (side switch on Expression Pedal) • Phantom - effect of a secondary “Phantom” treble keyboard colors, the artwork, the type of reeds and • Arpeggio! 3 inversion patterns to use in real time - Freeing the traditional fixed chords your Concerto becomes your accordion a • Manual Drums - dynamic Drum kit playable on keyboard • 4 Splits - Various solo and layered effects one of a kind – its own persona! • Chord Range - Selects left hand chord inversion • Bass Range - Selects the lowest sounding Bass note • Large LQD display (4 lines X 20 characters) • Small Top Mounted Display - Viewed from the top of the grill • Digital Repeat with variable speed from 4 - 508 strikes per minute (great for mandolin, marimba, timpani, and other effects) for bass or treble! • Digital Reverb adjustable for each section Tone Chamber Models – The Concerto • Digital Chorus adjustable for each section • Digital Panning – Pan all sections in stereo Tone Chamber models feature a solid aged • Digital Repeat – allowing any section to be repeated (marimba type effect) at a selectable speed. mahogany chamber with the very finest hand • Volume balance settings – each section instantly controllable 64 steps • Velocity Scaling for each section – 64 steps made reeds and in the case of all special • Library functions in alphabetical order of all sounds – over 350 • Octave Transposition + or – 3 octaves for each section edition Concerto accordions the ultimate • Transpose (real-time) up or down 9 half tones • Master Tune - master reverb - master chorus settings! hand cut triangulated reeds are used. These • Constant Bass (on/off) • C-HOLD Left Hand Freeze allows register to change right hand sounds while special reeds give your Concerto a superior HOLDING left hand sounds • Optional control pedal (assignable i.e., modulation, portamento etc.) dynamic range and sonority of truly a world • Rhythm controls (start/stop, tempo, etc.) • System exclusive MIDI DATA DUMP! class concert accordion. • World wide automatic switching power supply (AC 50-60Hz, 90-240 volt) • UL, CSA and GS Approvals
1760 South 450 West • Salt Lake City, UT 84115 • Phone: 801.486.1695 • Fax: 801.596.7315 • E-mail: [email protected] • Website www.AccordionStars.com The Polka model uses the same accordion as the Professional Deluxe Concerto with the finest superior hand made reeds with a special musette polka tuning. We then apply traditional rhinestone artwork. The rhinestones are the finest Swarovski Crystals made in Austria and are applied individually by hand making your Concerto Polka a true piece of art with a vibrant sound and look.
The Professional model is a hand crafted accordion made with the finest aged woods and materials. The keyboard like all Concerto accordions is made from aged American walnut and has a magical fast touch and response.
“No other accordion has been such a great combination of technology and old-world craftsmanship.” – Anonymous
Your Professional Concerto has 4 sets of treble reeds and 5 sets of bass reeds and is available with either the highest quality hand made type reeds or available with the highest superior quality hand made reeds as the Deluxe Professional model. You may choose the type or tuning and treble reed configuration - low, two middle and a high set or low and three middle sets. To further personalize your Concerto accordion you may select from numerous colors and finishes. Throughout this catalog you will see various Special Edition Concerto models but if you have a color or finish in mind just ask and let us make one for you!
Both the Polka and Professional accordions are available in tone chamber models. The Concerto Tone Chamber models feature a solid aged mahogany chamber with the very finest hand made reeds. These special reeds give your Concerto a superior dynamic range and sonority of truly a world class concert accordion. Your new Gold Edition tone chamber accordion comes with a solid mahogany tone-chamber. A handcrafted work of art with the finest artisan made reeds and aged woods. All attractively packaged with 24K gold fittings and matching ivory keys and buttons. A true statement of elegance and refinement! All Concerto’s feature such wonders as optical sensing of the treble keyboard so that no mechanical switches or contacts interfere with the feel and touch of the artisan crafted keyboard. Plus this Concerto exclusive of optical sensing provides a sensitivity to your touch bringing both the digital sounds to life as can only be experienced and hear on a Concerto accordion.
The optical sensors in the Concerto provide a sensitivy of touch that brings digital sounds to life.
The bellows of your Concerto are made of the finest materials and feature fully stainless steel corners for a lifetime without corrosion. On the GOLD models these fittings are further protected and enhanced with 24 karat gold platting. Sealed inside every Concerto is a transducer bellows sensor providing accurate bellow expression control of any or all digital sounds – simply press button labeled BELLOW on the front panel of your Concerto. Add all this to features like Phantom, Dynamic MIDI Expression Pedal, Extended Bass Range & Chord Arpeggios (freeing the fixed positions of the left hand), and you will soon discover why there is no competition! The Concerto Tone Chamber models feature a solid aged mahogany chamber with the very finest hand made reeds and in the case of all special edition Concerto accordions the ultimate hand cut triangulated reeds are used. These special reeds give your Concerto a superior dynamic range and sonority of truly a world class concert accordion. Your Las Vegas Edition Concerto tone chamber accordion is considered by many to be the most beautiful and elegant accordion ever with a graceful bone white finish made with special celluloid guaranteed not to discolor with age. The Las Vegas Edition features special gold engraving and artwork with individually hand applied Swarovski Crystals made in Austria only the worlds finest for the worlds finest accordion. Concerto, a complete system, eliminates the many frustrations of MIDI accordions yet its powerful GS controller offers professional control of sounds and digital effects directly from the grill. Your Las Vegas Edition Concerto is
Your Las Vegas Edition Concerto is considered by many to be the most beautiful and elegant accordion ever…
considered by many to be the most beautiful and elegant accordion ever with a graceful bone white finish made with special celluloid guaranteed not to discolor with age. The Las Vegas Edition features special gold engraving and artwork with individually hand applied Swarovski Crystals made in Austria only the worlds finest for the worlds finest accordion.
Concerto, a complete system, eliminates the many frustrations of MIDI accordions yet its powerful GS controller offers professional control of sounds and digital effects directly from the grill.
The Concerto Tone Chamber models feature a solid aged mahogany chamber with the very finest hand made reeds and in the case of all special edition Concerto accordions the ultimate hand cut triangulated reeds are used. These special reeds give your Concerto a superior dynamic range and sonority of truly a world class concert accordion. Your special Rhapsody Edition Concerto tone chamber accordion is the classical elegance of deep blue and gold accessorized with 24 karat gold fittings and ivory keys and buttons to finish the look of a truly elegant look. The finish of the Rhapsody edition has a special protective clear coat coating applied over a rich and elegant cobalt blue finish. This finish is also available with gold flecks imbedded deep under the clear coat finish, for a depth of look that’s only available with this special finish.
To further enhance the Rhapsody Edition special blue lights and displays are used making your Rhapsody Edition beautiful with or without the electricity. Who
Concerto makes playing simple and fun with its unique grill design and generous use of displays
can resist the look of the elegant blue lighting combined with rich blue finish and gold fittings!
Concerto makes playing simple and fun with its unique grill design and generous use of displays (large east to read display in front and small one on top) makes playing Concerto simple and fun. The sections for the left hand Bass, Chord 1 and Chord 2 allow the layering of 3 sounds in the left hand. The sections for the right hand Solo, Orchestra 1 and Orchestra 2 allow the layering of 3 sounds in the right hand all make your Concerto the richest and fullest sounding accordion found anywhere.
The Concerto Tone Chamber models feature a solid aged mahogany chamber with the very finest hand made reeds and in the case of all special edition Concerto accordions the ultimate hand cut triangulated reeds are used. These special reeds give your Concerto a superior dynamic range and sonority of truly a world class concert accordion. The Aline is custom made with rose wood with tailored reed blocks and the finest hand made reeds. Concerto features 8 Factory Registers (each a professional registration of sounds & settings for both hands). These Factory Registers allow you to proudly play Concerto from the very first moment you put it on (no need to learn about computer programming). The tone buttons, logically laid out in musical families such as Pianos, Organs, Guitars, etc. can easily be assigned to any of the six musical sections making CONCERTO versatile and easy to use.
Concerto allows you to select and memorize all functions (volume, reverb, octave, repeat, pedals, bellows,
Imagine having the power to create special sounds, to archive them and then recall them with a push of a button. and other settings) with the aid of easy to use Menus. Concerto also features a LIBRARY MENU, with over 350 high quality sampled sounds all in alphabetical order, simply press a sections UP or DOWN key and watch the sounds roll by, stop on the sound you want and you’ve got it!
Selecting sounds on Concerto is FUN! Once you have made your selections, you may store the sounds and settings as a “user register” which can be recalled instantly with the touch of one button (8 Register buttons per 16 SONG buttons). Concerto has memory for 128 USER REGISTERS built in plus, with archival Flash Memory (allowing over 1,000 total stored registers), the sky is the limit.
Imagine having the power to create special sounds for the Holidays, for ethnic variations, and be able to archive these to recall them for a specific job or season.
Concerto includes accordion, deluxe carry case, portable sound generator (rack mountable), pedals, UL & CSA approved World-wide power supply, instruction manual with DVD instructional video.