Digital Accordion model Tula 1

Why Tula ? It's name of the city in Russia where this beautiful white pearl case has been designed. Tula (russian: Тула) is situated 200 km to the south of Moscow and it is famous at weapon factory and museum, ginger cakes and of course the musical factory of bayans (button accordions) and russian style harmonicas.

Tula 1 Model information

The colleagues from Tula factory has produced this custom accordion case for digital transformation. It does not have acoustic components, but dedicated for pure electronics internals.

Production plans were impacted by covid-19 crisis and there was some delay with particular components. However now the obstacles has been resolved.

Current state of production is in progress, estimated finish is end of 2020. Stay tuned.

What is happening

While hardware is created I am working on the software improvements and has implemented extended Jazz chords support on the left hand based on my prototype