Bandonika
bi- and unisonoric
(Collection Oriwohl, Nr. 71)
Manufacture: Co. Kahnt & Uhlmann as "Kantulia", est. 1896 (Altenburg in Thuringia)
Another Bandonika in a simple design from a company from Thuringia..
The unisonoric left side with 4 basic basses and 4 chords
The bisonoric right side
Top with shield: "Steel tones"
Front view with imprint:
Kantulia-Accordeon
Manufacturer's advertisement around 1930:
"Special factory of world-renown for first-class bandonions and accordions of medium and undesirable range, diatonic and chromatic up to 6-choirs treble by means of patent mechanism"
"up to 6-choirs treble": This should be record-breaking and shows that the playing with many choirs was not unusual.
