✦ Unique experience · Since 2021 ✦
Build your own
diatonic accordion
🔨 10 days of immersion · Leave with an instrument made by your own hands
📅 Upcoming sessions
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🌸 Spring
April 8 – 17
2026 · Spring workshop
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🍂 Autumn
October 14 – 23
2026 · Autumn workshop
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A unique workshop in France
10 days to build your own instrument, in a friendly and professional setting
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Who is it for?
- Open to everyone from age 13
- Beginners welcome
- No manual experience required
- Minors with an adult guardian
- Disability accessibility available
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The spirit of the workshop
A creative and sensory experience in a calm setting. Personalised guidance throughout the making process. Small group (max 6 trainees) for optimal follow-up.
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Goals
- Assemble the bellows
- Mount the action
- Fit grilles & finishings
- Install and tune the reeds
- First musical play-through
Models & Pricing
Choose the model that suits you best
🎯 Anche a mano Blue Star option: handcrafted reeds · +15% of the model price
(21/8b +€423 · 33/12b +€675 · 33/18b +€732 · 33/24b +€938)
2-voice RH upgrade with registers: option to upgrade to 2 voices on the right hand with registers (requires 2 workshop sessions).
Detailed programme — 10 days
A progressive journey from raw structure to finished music
Day
1
Welcome & first assemblies
Tour of the workshop, introduction to tools, choice of personalised options (wood species, key, grilles). Start of basic structure assembly.
Day
2
Wooden structure
Building the right- and left-hand casings, sanding, gluing, squaring. Installation of the mechanical base.
Day
3
Keyboards & buttons
Mounting the axles, fitting springs, adjusting touch and key travel.
Day
4
Right & left-hand action
Full action assembly, precise adjustment of heights and key travel on both hands.
Day
5
Bellows
Making and fitting the bellows, meticulous adjustments, checking full airtightness.
Day
6
Grilles & finishings
Fitting the decorative grilles, working on wood finishings, final sanding and protection.
Day
7
Reed installation
Sorting and selecting reeds, careful installation, first tensioning, note-by-note testing.
Day
8
Fine tuning
Detecting and fixing air leaks, mechanical adjustments, perfect key alignment.
Day
9
Full testing
Thorough testing of right and left hands, evaluating playing comfort, personalised corrections for your morphology.
Day
10
Musical initiation & handover
Music session with a guest musician, final hands-on with the instrument, photo session, review and instrument handover.
Options & Customisation
Over 100 combinations to create YOUR unique instrument
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Wood species
- Cherry wood (merisier)
- Walnut (noyer)
- Sycamore maple (érable)
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Keys
- G/C
- D/G
- A/D
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Right-hand layout
- Heim
- Milleret-Pignol
- Tactile / visual / plain marking
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Left-hand configuration
- Milleret-Pignol
- Heim
- Custom (extra cost)
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Decorative grilles
- Over 100 models
- Numbered catalogue
- Selected at registration
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Bellows
- Colours: black, red, blue, green, orange, mixed
- Standard / reinforced / metal corners
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Action / buttons
- Natural wood mushroom
- Black mother-of-pearl
- White mother-of-pearl
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Reeds
- Tipo a mano (standard)
- A mano + (premium)
- Dry / half-dry tuning
Practical information
📍 Location
Lutherie workshop
9 rue Fernand de Magellan
44600 Saint-Nazaire
France
⏰ Schedule
Typical day:
9:30 – 12:30: Building workshop
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 17:30: Assembly & tuning
Evenings: Concerts, dances, exchanges
✅ Included
- All materials
- Professional tooling
- Expert supervision
- Straps provided
- Bag / case provided
- Consumables
📝 Terms
- Non-refundable deposit
- Session transfer possible
- Place transfer authorised
- Limited places (small groups)
🏨 Not included
- Accommodation
- Meals
- Transport
We can suggest accommodation nearby.
⚠️ Important
- Preparatory work before the workshop
- Instrument not for commercial resale
- Return possible if unfinished (€80/day)
Ready to build your accordion?
Places are limited to 6 trainees. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to create your own instrument!
